Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times : : Undergraduates Share Their Stories in Higher Education / / edited by Nicholas D. Hartlep, Brandon O. Hensley, Carmella J. Braniger, Michael E. Jennings.

• Superior document: Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action,
• HerausgeberIn: Hartlep, Nicholas D.; Hensley, Brandon O.; Braniger, Carmella J.; Jennings, Michael E.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed. 2017.
• Language: English
• Series: Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (CXLVI, 18 p.)

Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times shares the stories of undergraduate students and educators in U.S. higher education. Storytellers in this volume grapple with issues of bullying, stigma surrounding mental health, cultural barriers, gender inequity, and other forms of struggle in educational settings. The disciplinary backgrounds of the authors are diverse, including Psychology, English, Communication Studies, Business, and Educational Foundations. The authors write stories about their role(s) in resisting (or failing to resist) oppressive conditions in schooling, and their contributions draw attention to critical problems in 21st century. This anthology was planned, written, and edited by students and four faculty members. The stories shared in each chapter were completely at the discretion of the contributor. By making themselves vulnerable, participants investigated stories of personal and social import. This book engages a community of critical voices in an age where critical storytelling has never mattered more. “Critical Storytellling in Uncritical Times is a pulsating work of self and social discovery, where autoethnographic accounts of high school students, pre-service teachers and teachers are assembled into a ‘cut and mix,’ a flux-and-change ethnographic prism that enables readers to view students as educators and educators and future educators as students. It is a book that shows how alliances for social justice can be formed that transcend race, class, age, gender, sexuality and social capital. All of us in the teaching profession would do well to read this book together with their students.” – Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor, Chapman University.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Pagan Religion in the 21st Century / Gregory Michael Brewer -- Gender and the Media / Allison Cummings and Amanda Glesing -- Silent Judgments / Justin Hayes -- To Be Continued… / 1 Anonymous -- First Day Of School / Daniel Searcy -- Mom, I’m Gay / Jayce Sorrentino -- Assimilation of an Alien / Zuzana Sulcova -- “Brain Dead” / Brandon O. Hensley -- College Student, Future Educator, Not an “Anchor Baby” / Elizabeth Nunez -- Growing up without a Father / Deisha Marshall -- My Realization / Joey Dundovich -- My Life with Trichotillomania / Chelsea Berg -- A Letter to the Faceless / 2 Anonymous -- Angels of the Night / Sauer Sauer -- Family Ties / Natalie Kozelka -- Who Am I? Struggling with My Identity / Amanda Reyes -- Judging from the Outside / Kendall Keller -- A Kind of My Own / LaQuinta Moy -- “Hey, Sister” / Carmella Braniger -- Mean Girls, Interrupted / Alexa Duncan -- My Personal Hell / Becky Falls -- Coming Up From The Depths / Emma Hastings -- About The Contributors -- Index.