Critical Pedagogy for Healing

This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from Brazil Canada Malta and the USA the chapters combine critical pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the symptoms not the causes of society's sickness the authors argues for a soul revival of education which tackles head on the causes of dis-ease in society from institutional racism colonialism xenophobia and patriarchy. The contributors provide fresh perspectives that address short-term goals of wellness alongside long-term goals of healing<i> </i>in schools and society by attending to underlying causes of social sickness. The chapters bridge theory and practice bringing diverse historical and contemporary philosophical discussions around wellness into contact with concrete examples of the interconnections between wellness education and social justice. Examples of topics covered include: Buddhist practices for healing Black liberation theology hip hop pedagogy anxiety and vulnerability art therapy and story-telling.