Institutional Responses to Violence in Students’ Lives: Addressing Adversity and Developing Resilience in Campus Learning Environments (65937)
Session Chair: Yogani Govender
Saturday, January 7, 2023 (11:20)
Session: Session 2
Room: 317A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
This presentation will address the impact of violence in students' lives and how it affects their learning, including their sense of future potential. Effectively identifying and responding to the harm and violence in students' lives is critical to the success of our increasingly diverse student populations. It can be extrapolated from national data that significant numbers of students in colleges and universities, particularly women, gender non-conforming and LGBTTQ students, are experiencing violence and harm in the home, in workplaces as well as on campus, yet do not report what is happening. (Sinha, 25 February, 2013) These experiences of violence have been exacerbated in the past two years due to isolation as a result of the pandemic. (Peterman, 2020) Students who live with, witness, or fear such violence in its many forms are living in what has been called 'a dialectic of trauma'(Herman, 1997) It is this trauma, fear and silence that prevent students from fully engaging in their learning and in co-curricular campus life activities. Indeed, the experience of violence is an impediment to students' equal access to education, a significant issue for the practice of teaching and learning, yet one rarely addressed. Attendees will be encouraged to contribute to the conversation as to how instructors and/or administrators can collaborate to create teaching and learning environments that consider the complexities of violence and harm in students' lives and work toward the development of administrative responses and transformative learning opportunities for all students.
Authors:
Connie Guberman, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Connie Guberman is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Toronto Scarborough in Canada
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