Foreword: Raising Generation Mass Shooting / Melissa Marietta -- Introduction: Listening to Those on the Inside / Elizabeth A. Bloom -- Chapter 1. The Casualties You Don't See: The Omnipresent Trauma of School Shootings / Vincenzo Greco -- Chapter 2. Pearl Clutching and The Normalization of School Shootings in Young Adult Literature / Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs, Sarah Rhodes, and Jenna Turner -- Chapter 3. We Should All Care: Preservice Teachers' Perspectives on Gun Control / Nicole Waid -- Chapter 4. Teacher Trauma in the Age of School Violence / Frank Thornton -- Chapter 5. School Ecosystems: Including Librarians in a Proactive Approach to Addressing School Shootings / Sarah Rhodes -- Chapter 6. Resolving Bleak Futures: Following the Lead of Generation / ZKjersti VanSlyke-Briggs
Summary:
From voices in the field, Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence: Confronting Trauma and Anxiety in America's Schools considers how damaging fear and anxiety are for those who are in our schools every day in the United States and living with both the ever present threat of a school shooting and the continuous preparations for one. This book examines those impacted directly including not just students and teachers, but preservice teachers considering teaching as a profession, college professors, support staff, and librarians. This follow up book to A Relentless Threat: Scholars Respond to Teens on Weaponized School Violence, goes in depth into the human cost of violence by exploring the fear of potential violence in our schools and what may be done to lessen that trauma and anxiety. This book includes discussion on the very real impact of false alarms, the trauma and anxiety experienced by teachers, the risks and benefits of armed shooter training, the unique challenges of non-classroom spaces, using young adult literature as a tool for processing emotions with students, and the importance of teaching critical reading skills for evaluating how school shootings are portrayed in the media. -- Provided by publisher. "Documenting the trauma and anxiety in our schools as a result of the constant threat of a school shooting, the authors of Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence share personal voices grounded in research that support the need to respond to our most valued stakeholders-students"-- Provided by publisher.
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