Healing-Centered Writing in the Secondary Classroom

An Identity-Affirming and Restorative Approach
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-27109-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Equity and Social Justice in Education Series

This book offers an expansive vision of what writing can look like and feel like, both in classrooms and in our lives. In a time when automation of the writing process is being normalized at every stage and level, it challenges readers to remember why writing from our own bodies still matters.

The book presents the concept of a healing-centered framework for writing, which covers five tenets: 1) “Who Is ‘I’?,” which focuses on identity and authorship; 2) “The Body of Writing,” on embodiment and form; 3) “Forgot, but Then Remembered,” on memory and reclamation; 4) “Found Joy in Pieces,” on fragmentation and collage; and 5) “Stones to the Pile,” on civic engagement and purpose. Each tenet is designed to help teachers foster conditions for a healing-centered approach to writing—one with the capacity to be humanizing, affirming, empowering, liberatory, trauma-sensitive, restorative, and transformative for student writers and for their teachers.

This book is especially well-suited to high school and middle school teachers who assign and teach writing in any subject area.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Opidee, Ioanna Pettas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Why Writing Still Matters 2. What is “Healing-Centered” Writing? 3. Embodying What: Characteristics of a Healing-Centered Approach 4. Embodying Why: Values and Priorities of a Healing-Centered Approach 5. Embodying How: Processes and Practices of a Healing-Centered Approach 6. Case Study: Esther and Maria 7. Case Study: Lila and Dan 8. Case Study: Eddie and June 9. Case Study: Mason and Tag 10. Toward Embodying a Healing-Centered Approach to Writing 11. The Origins of a Healing-Centered Ethic 12. The Emergence of a Healing-Centered Research Project 13. The “Pivot Point” of AI 14. Write the Way: A Healing-Centered Model

Über Autor(innen)

Ioanna Pettas Opidee is a writer and educator with more than twenty years of experience teaching writing in a variety of settings, including high school and college classrooms, as well as community-based spaces.