ABSTRACT
By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship.
Featuring a broad range of contributions from scholars and professionals involved in educational research and academia, Humanizing Grief in Higher Education explores the varied ways in which students, scholars, and educators experience and navigate grief and trauma. Set into four distinct parts, chapters deploy personal narratives situated within interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research frameworks to illustrate how issues such as race, gender, socio-economic class, and politics intersect with experiences of personal and professional grief in the academy. A variety of intersectional fields of study – from positive psychology, counselling, feminist and queer theories, to trauma theory and disability studies – inform an interdisciplinary framework for processing traumatic experiences and finding ways to hope. These narrative explorations are positioned as key to developing a sense of hope amongst the grieving and those supporting them.
This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and academics in the fields of Higher Education, teacher education, trauma studies, and mental health education. Those interested in positive and educational psychology, as well as grief counselling in adults, will also enjoy this volume. Finally, this collection serves as a companion for those who find themselves grappling with losses, broadly defined.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|12 pages
Introduction- Intersecting Hope with Actionable Frameworks in the Academy
part I|48 pages
Allyship through Writing and Literature
chapter 2|9 pages
Changing Cultural Constructions of Grief through the Shared Story
chapter 5|11 pages
“The Grief that Fills One's Heart”
part II|44 pages
Communities of Hope and Healing
part III|44 pages
Grieving for/with Students and Teachers
chapter 17|7 pages
How Experiences with Student Grief Inform Our Practice
part IV|36 pages
Finding Hope through Activism