Chapter 4: A Brave New Curriculum: Empowering Teachers and Students in Times of Trauma

In this rethinking of how curriculum can be approached in times of trauma, ideas around opening the curricular space to talking about taboo topics like suicide and sexual violence are discussed. Both deeply personal issues, our classrooms and students are not immune from their effects. A distinction between controversial issues and taboo topics is explored, and a new joint framework of using feminist pedagogy and democratic classrooms is proposed.