Teaching from the Heart: Trauma Affect and Affective Pedagogies

Abstract

Rather than seeing affect as an “aspect” of experience at odds with the supposedly “rational” or “academic” activities of the classroom, affect determines the experience of life itself – including how we teach and how we learn. Through ethnographic vignettes, this chapter explores the challenging and risky terrain of “trauma affect” within the context of an international women's university in Bangladesh. In response to this exploration, the chapter then discusses the importance of “teaching from the heart” in higher education (HE), or in other words, of using trauma-informed or affective pedagogies in responding to the pain of others.

Citation

Cone, T. (2022), "Teaching from the Heart: Trauma Affect and Affective Pedagogies", Marshall, J.E. and Skibba, C. (Ed.) Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-497-720221013