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"The individual histories of both trigger warnings and trauma have evolved rapidly in the overlapping wakes of COVID, mental health crises, attacks on educational institutions in the United States, climate apocalypse, evergrowing economic inequities, and, more promisingly, attempts at political redress and educational equity. At the same time, trigger warnings and trauma have become exponentially more intimately linked in the past few years. But however often the topic of trigger warnings provokes heated discussion, the appeals and alignments of the interlocutors equally as frequently defy neat political binaries. Critiques of trigger warnings come from all sides of the political and pedagogical spectra, and even scholars and practitioners who offer a trauma-informed approach to the topic are not unified in their view of trigger warnings, as this anthology illustrates. These messy cross-cuts make this topic especially timely and especially appealing to us as past, current, and future educators, and especially in light of the 'new forms of anxiety, trauma, and disaffection' that students are experiencing (Comstock 697)."
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
Recommended Citation
Barnard, Ian et al., editors. Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma. Lever Press, 2026.
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The editors
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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.