Trauma informed practices in education and social justice: towards a critical orientation

(Re)conceptualizing Love: Moving Towards a Critical Theory of Love in Education for Social Justice

Trauma-Informed Assessment and Intervention Are Key Elements of a Trauma-Informed Juvenile Justice System

by the experience of trauma. There are three dimensions of trauma on which such an assessment might focus: a) whether a youth has been exposed to potentially traumatizing events; b) whether a youth displays symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress; and c) whether a youth meets the criteria for a formal diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as per the DSM-IV or ICD-10 diagnostic...

Beyond cultural competence: critical consciousness, social justice, and multicultural education.

In response to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education mandate that medical education must address both the needs of an increasingly diverse society and disparities in health care, medical schools have implemented a wide variety of programs in cultural competency. The authors critically analyze the concept of cultural competency and propose that multicultural education must go beyond the tra...

Towards New Literacies and Social Justice for Engineering Education

This paper argues for the need to develop engineering students with high levels of technical competency as well as critical awareness for the realities of working and living ethically in the global community. Drawing on social constructivist principles of learning (Vygotsky, 1978) and a pedagogy of multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996, 2000), the paper explores new approaches for engineering...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...