What Were Trigger Warnings? New Forms of Knowing and the Use of the Classroom

Authors

Kelli Fuery, Chapman UniversityFollow

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"In some ways the trigger warning, if left as a form of not- knowing, shares a similar threatening sensibility to the current fear of future technology² and my interest in this chapter is to consider what has happened to trigger warnings so that we might rethink the ways in which a classroom can be used to embrace unthought experiences in productive and creative ways. Have trigger warnings already become a reductive part of well- intended classroom instruction, or might there be something more to be gained by considering an evolution of their function, one that moves trigger warnings from disclaimers to possible new forms of knowing? Whatever the function of trigger warnings is, or has become, it is the student experience, and the question of whether or not warnings have worked for them, and continue to work, that is at the forefront of my concerns here.³"

ISBN

978-1-64315-090-1

Publication Date

2026

Publisher

Lever Press

Disciplines

Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Methods | Educational Psychology | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education

Comments

In Ian Barnard, Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Jada Patchigondla, Aneil Rallin, Morgan Read-Davidson, Ethan Trejo and Kristi Wilson (Eds.), Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma.

Recommended Citation

Fuery, Kelli. "What Were Trigger Warnings? New Forms of Knowing and the Use of the Classroom." Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma, edited by Ian Barnard et al., Lever Press, 2026, pp. 29-46.

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1

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Lever Press

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