ORCID
Srividya Ramasubramanian: 0000-0003-2140-8008 Emily Riewestahl: 0000-0002-3941-8792 Shelby Landmark: 0000-0001-7733-2191
Document Type
Article
Date
Fall 9-10-2021
Keywords
critical literacy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism
Language
Eng
Disciplines
Other Film and Media Studies
Description/Abstract
This paper describes the Trauma-informed Equity-minded Asset-based Model (TEAM) framework for social justice-oriented educators. We draw on trauma-informed approaches to illustrate how systemic racism as systemic trauma and normative whiteness as dominant ideology are embedded in the U.S education and media institutions. From an equity-minded perspective, we critique notions such as egalitarianism, colorblind racism, neoliberal multiculturalism, and abstract liberalism. Using an asset-based model, we urge educators to avoid deficit ideologies to frame marginalized communities. The TEAM approach offers the following “Six R’s” as strategies: (1) Realizing that dominant ideologies are embedded in educational systems, (2) Recognizing the long-term effects of systemic trauma on learners from aggrieved communities, (3) Responding to trauma by emphasizing safety, trust, collaboration, peer network, agency, and voice within learning environments, (4) Resisting retraumatization within learning environments, (5) Replacing egalitarianism with equity-mindedness and (6) Reframing deficit ideology with an asset-based lens to learners.
ISSN
2167-8715
Recommended Citation
Ramasubramanian, S., Riewestahl, E., & Landmark, S. (2021). The Trauma-informed Equity-minded Asset-based Model (TEAM): The six R’s for social justice-oriented educators. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 13(2), 29-42. https://doi.org/10.23860/JMLE-2021-13-2-3
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rights
© 2021 Author(s). This is an open access, peer-reviewed article published by Bepress and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. JMLE is the official journal of NAMLE.
