Rethinking Trauma: What Youth From Domestic Violence Have to Teach Us | Tracey Pyscher | TEDxWWU
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- As a society, we do not openly discuss domestic violence and yet its reality is front and center for children and youth whose lives are deeply shaped by it. The school landscape is bleak for many, if not all, youth with histories of domestic violence. They are one of the largest populations of youth being pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline. We know little to nothing about how they navigate school-how they engage with and resist educational practices and thus take up subject positions. What we do know from popular, psychological literature is that they are often objectified as troubled dramatically shaping their experiences in school. As a way to invite an alternative story, I discuss the challenges these children and youth face when they navigate what they perceive to be violating interactions in educational settings.
Tracey Pyscher, Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education in the Woodring College of Education at Western Washington University. Her research interests include understanding and naming the social and cultural experiences of children and youth with histories of domestic violence (HDV youth) and their navigation of school and critical literacy and learning. She has published several book chapters articles related to her research on/with youth with histories of domestic violence.
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Survival requests/needs isolation. Labeling emotions would be a really big help. Asking a kid why they aren’t like the other kids negates their reality. They are the equivalent of a war survivor. Whatever that war was, they are reshaped and beyond normal.
Excellent meeting you Tracy. You have opened new doors for me. Bellingham gardener
Thank you.
Why is this not a more discussed topic?! We need more testimonies like this one, we need more survivors of trauma to speak up so the silenced ones become empowered more frequently.
Not only that, but we need more people to understand this information so we can change the school systems, and education requirements for teachers.
I am a survivor of seeing DV as a child and experiencing it for myself. A survivor of CSA. I am also an unofficial educator, and deal with many young children. I see other adults treating "bad" kids like they're trying to be disruptive, as if they should be like everybody else, and they seem to believe they can force the "disobedient" behavior out of kids, and it makes me so angry. This kind of education about children and their emotional states, in connection to their home lives is intrinsic to successfully giving our children the best we can.
Because of stigma and shame. People don't want to hear it. It needs to change.
Much love to you, Tracey.
Shared, I hope more teachers see this! Thanks for explaining your point of view. I get it.
LOVE YOU TRACEY!
Children growing up in a domestic violence situation from a younger age can often see through less than ideal teaching method which they will then not be co-operative with while not knowing what else to do about it. For example when guessing that an assignment to do in art class was not for real a request for us to create artistic minded drawing of: " A man." From there while resisting by me only doing a line drawing of what would be in effect only a walk light drawing then from there I got hauled into the office to explain why I had flunked that I.Q. screening test. Wasn't until many years later when I finally discovered why that assignment seemed so off and suspicious sounding to me.
Great talk, thank you!!
So one thing that comes to mind as you present your own experience:
We need to keep in mind you are sharing your perspective, a valid one, but perhaps not accurate. You may have been a complete disruption to the rest of the kids. You leader seems to may have implemented a popular discipline measure (not right for you) and usually the people that work in this positions are mom volunteers doing their best. What I’m saying is you are not the only victim…. Sadly, her people hurt people.
Thank you for sharing from your point of view.
Children growing up in a domestic violence situation from a younger age can often see through less than ideal teaching method which they will then not be co-operative with while not knowing what else to do about it. For example when guessing that an assignment to do in art class was not for real a request for us to create artistic minded drawing of: " A man." From there while resisting by me only doing a line drawing of what would be in effect only a walk light drawing then from there I got hauled into the office to explain why I had flunked that I.Q. screening test. Wasn't until many years later when I finally discovered why that assignment seemed so off and suspicious sounding to me.