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- Title
From Awareness to Advocacy: Using Intimate Partner Violence Awareness Campaigns to Teach User Advocacy and Empathy in a TraumaInformed Technical Communication Course.
- Authors
Steiner, Lindsay; Kopp, Bryan; Park, Kate
- Abstract
In this article, we describe how technical communication students explored user advocacy and coalitional action by creating traumainformed, intimate partner violence (IPV) awareness campaigns for our campus. The nature of this project required us to develop a traumainformed approach to teaching at the undergraduate level. To create a supportive community of practice for instructors and students, we used a lesson study methodology in which a team of teacher-researchers collaboratively designed, observed, analyzed, and revised a sequence of lessons. We provide the larger context for our lesson study project, the lesson study structure including preparatory material for students, traumainformed teaching strategies, and reflections on the lesson. To effect meaningful change and learning, we needed to have difficult conversations with students; this required us to acknowledge the presence of trauma in the classroom and then work to support the students who have experienced trauma. Finally, we offer a reflective critique of our experience as a heuristic for instructors to use as they implement and reflect on trauma-informed pedagogy in their own classes.
- Subjects
INTIMATE partner violence; COMMUNICATION of technical information; EMPATHY; AWARENESS; COMMUNITIES of practice
- Publication
Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing & Service Learning, 2022, Vol 22, Issue 1, p345
- ISSN
1541-2075
- Publication type
Article