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What Happened on July 21st: An Investigation of Trauma and Trigger Warnings in the English Classroom
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Direct linkWolfsdorf, Adam; Scott, Alison; Herzog, Sarah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
The controversy surrounding trigger warnings has highlighted a mystifying confound in post-secondary education. Faculty, students and school bureaucracies are divided. While trigger warning proponents emphasise the value of protecting students with trauma histories from unscaffolded exposure to content related to sexuality, violence, race and…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Trauma, Course Content, Student Experience
Wolfsdorf, Adam – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
Trigger warnings are posing serious threats to the ways that English educators can teach at the university level. If Aristotle--and Hillis-Miller years later--argue that literature must arouse and bring about catharsis, then proponents of trigger warnings are anaesthetising the power of words and watering down their ability to incite emotional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Psychological Patterns, Mental Health, Emotional Response
