... of discomfort does not guarantee that students will be emotionally and analytically engaged in the process. Zemblyas and Papamichael (2017) found that some teacher candidates in their study “resorted to rationalized argumentation or sentimental reactions” (p. 15) rather than acknowledge their own emotional...

... reflection about their intense emotional responses. This is tricky terrain. As Hongyu Wang (2008) suggests, it is our job to challenge students but we also need to create opportunities to travel with our students to difficult knowledge in emotionally-sustainable ways (p. 45 emphasis added). The second...