Creating a canon for change: how teacher candidates demonstrate readiness to reckon with rape culture through reading trauma literature

Moore, Amber

doi:10.1080/10476210.2022.2044770

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“…In my research project, overall, I aimed to develop theory and innovative pedagogy and to advance knowledge by contributing to research on teaching more inclusive trauma texts in English education (for snapshots of this work, see Moore, 2020aMoore, , 2020bMoore, , 2020cMoore, , 2021Moore, , 2022. I investigated how teacher candidates responded to teaching and learning about sexual assault narratives assembled into a diverse trauma text set.…”

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Dot-Dot-Dot: A Feminist Critical Poetic Inquiry of Silence in Teacher Candidates’ Responses to Teaching Sexual Assault Narratives

Moore

2022

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This project emerges from a larger feminist study where 23 teacher candidate participants took up reading a trauma text set of sexual assault literature and responded to pedagogy for teaching such narratives with adolescents in Canadian K-12 public schools. This critical feminist poetic inquiry (Faulkner, 2016; 2018a; 2018b; 2020a; 2020b; Ohito & Nyachae, 2018; Prendergast, 2015) represents a significant piece of this project: how breath, pauses, slivers of silence(s), and slow pacing surfaced during teachers candidates’s disclosures of violence while discussing their learning about the pedagogical potential of Tarana Burke’s MeToo movement, centering sexual assault narratives in the English literature classroom, and resisting rape culture(s). Because participants’ testimonies of diverse trauma experiences demanded poetry of witness (Davidson, 2003), poetic inquiry allowed for attendance to these offerings through the composition of visual ‘silence poems’ that re-transcribe the disclosures by capturing nonverbal moments: gaps, pauses, trailings off, etc. With the aim of thinking ahead to how secondary English teachers might cultivate radical classroom communities prepared to cultivate radical solidarity as resistance to patriarchal violence, this paper explores how poetic inquiry might especially offer a significant methodological entrypoint for antirape research.

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Section: The Studymentioning

confidence: 99%