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Teaching and Learning During A Pandemic: How one Graduate Community Psychology Class Quickly Incorporated Healing Justice Into Our Practices
Author(s) -
Langhout Regina Day,
Rodriguez Ramirez Daniel,
VaccarinoRuiz S. Sylvane,
Alonso Blanco Valeria,
Quinteros Katherine,
Copulsky Daniel,
Lopezzi Miguel A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1002/ajcp.12524
Subject(s) - syllabus , health psychology , economic justice , photovoice , class (philosophy) , psychology , community psychology , pedagogy , intervention (counseling) , public health , medical education , nursing , social psychology , medicine , political science , law , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , economic growth
In this first‐person account, we describe the changes we made to align our graduate student‐level community psychology class with a healing justice model. We undertook this intervention because the class started in March, at the beginning of the COVID‐19 pandemic stay‐at‐home directive in our region. We describe the facets of a healing justice model, which promotes radical healing and collective action in a trauma‐informed environment. We then discuss the changes we made to the class to better align with healing justice, including how enrolled students (i.e., co‐authors) experienced the process of the course (e.g., reworking the syllabus, starting class with check‐ins and an exercise to engage our parasympathetic nervous systems), as well as the content of the course (e.g., service projects to support people who are undocumented, unhoused, or minoritized in other ways; photovoice). We end with implications for teaching community psychology, including the importance of universal design, and for scholar‐activist PhD programs.