1st Edition

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class

Edited By Kimber Andrews, Kristy Swift Copyright 2025
234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and the Post-Secondary Music Class explores the theory and practice of teaching and learning in a traumatized world and aims to support instructors in guiding students and walking with them through challenges that impact learning. With analysis contextualized within definitions of trauma, critical theoretical trauma studies, and clinical understandings of the causes and... Read more

Table of Contents

 

Prologue: An Interview of Associate Vice Provost and Professor Keisha Love, University of Cincinnati

 

Introduction: Why Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Post-Secondary Music?

Kimber Andrews and Kristy Swift

 

Part I: Responding to Uncertainty, Stress and Trauma Through and With Music

Kimber Andrews

 

Chapter 1—Transcending Notes: A Trauma-Informed Care in Music Education for Re-membering and Re-embracing Our Wholeness

Mays Imad

 

Chapter 2—Teaching Traumatized Students

 

Fred Maus

 

Chapter 3—These Are Magic Words: On Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Ethnographic Fieldwork

Drew B. Griffin

 

Chapter 4—Designing Trauma-Informed Assessments in the Decolonised Music Classroom: UK and US Contexts

Michelle Meinhart

 

Chapter 5—Supporting Learners in the Possibility of Environmental Collapse: An Arts-Based and Trauma-Informed Course

Tawnya D. Smith

 

Chapter 6—Teaching Sound, Music, and Trauma

Kristy Swift

 

Part II: Intersectional Trauma–Informed Pedagogy and the Music Class

Kristy Swift

 

Chapter 7—Negotiating the Ambivalences of Safe Space through In-Class Open Mics

Ryan Lambe

 

Chapter 8––Trauma-informed and Universal-Design Approaches for Rigorous Training in Aural Skills

Samantha Bassler

 

Chapter 9––Antiracism as a Pedagogy of Care and Repair

John Spilker-Beed

 

Chapter 10––Trauma-Informed Vocal Pedagogy: Methods to Combat Racial Trauma in Black Singers Within the Vocal Studio

Brandi L. Diggs

 

Chapter 11––Becoming a Situated Ear: A Feminist, Trauma-Informed Approach to Aural Skills

Vivian Luong

 

Part III: Islands of Care: Cultivating Awareness, Connection, Growth, and Resilience

Kimber Andrews

 

Chapter 12—Creating the Container: Strategies for Building a Trauma-Informed, Nervous System-Aware Adult Learning Environment

Jennifer King and Sylvia Hernandez

 

Chapter 13—“Every Artist Is an Advocate”: Mentoring High-Achieving Students and Negotiating Institutional Pressure in Student Advocacy and Research

Holly Riley and Noah Durnell

 

Chapter 14—Staying Tuned In: Connecting Body and Brain to Deepen Understanding and Learning in the Music Classroom

Amy Stenger-Sullivan

 

Chapter 15—Firmly Grounded, So You Can Soar: How I Used Universal Design for Learning to Keep Teaching After Trauma

Nicol Hammond

 

Epilogue: Choice and Voice

Quinn Patrick Ankrum

Index

Biography

Kimber Andrews is an Associate Director at the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Cincinnati.

Kristy Swift is Assistant Professor of Music Studies and Bachelor of Arts Music program director at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.