Adriana Aldana shares about Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance on episode 582 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

One of our ethical obligations as social workers is to engage in self care to avoid burnout.
-Adriana Aldana

Their voice really comes through in the letter format in ways that I don’t see in other forms of writing. I encourage them to loosen up a little bit with what they think I am expecting them to write about or how to write.
-Adriana Aldana

Resources

• Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance, by Adriana Aldana
• Rest as Resistance, by Trisha Hersey
• Rest as Resistance card deck
• Episode 195: Considering Open Education with an Interdisciplinary Lens with Robin DeRosa
• Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, by Caro de Robertis
• Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory, by Aja Y. Martinez
• Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, by William Bridges
• Elon University Center for Engaged Leanring Open Access Book Series