Pedagogy of pain

Pulling passion, potential, and possibility from the pain of silence and truth telling

Bibliographic Data

ID12814884
AuthorsMomina Khan (0000-0002-3661-1124, University of Saskatchewan, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume15
Issue4
Pages252-262
Publication date2021-09-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiaspora Indigenous and Minority Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-5692 • E-ISSN: 1559-5706
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15595692.2021.1944087
OpenAlexW3204206092
LanguageEN
References cited14

Cultural and faith-based narratives live in our skins and personal lives. Each body is tied to the stories that are written on it, and thus the body and the soul within it are central to our coming to know of tears, wounds, pain, and suffering. Using autobiographical narrative inquiry and poetry, I share my lived experiences and encounters with the pain of silence and truth telling. As a Canadian, Muslim, woman of color, and mother of four children, I unapologetically question the “psychic violence” of strategic silencing, scripted conformity, and structured surrender enforced and performed in institutions and society toward people of color. I seek to embrace, dwell in, and engage with pain to pull out passion, potential, and possibility. I offer the truth of my knowing to construct pathways and possibilities for reimagining and deconstructing pain and tears as the cure for personal and systemic liberation

Aesthetics · Art · Conformity · Literature · Narrative · Passion · Political science · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Silence · Sociology · Soul · Surrender · Theology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology