Theme 3: Attention to the Affective Components
Teaching Sensitive Issues: Feminist Pedagogy
and the Practice of Advocacy-Based Counseling
by Alesha Durfee and Karen
Rosenberg
In this paper, we discuss ways in which
instructors can assist and empower students
in crisis using the Advocacy-Based
Counseling (ABC) perspective. This praxis,
developed by battered women's advocates
to inform their work with survivors
of intimate partner violence, emphasizes
the importance of listening to students, as
well as identifying and addressing safety
concerns. We also discuss the necessary
limits of the instructor's role in these situations,
and how to communicate those
limits to students.
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