Teaching in Higher Ed· Folge 582

Counterstory Pedagogy, with Adriana Aldana

Donnerstag, 7. August 2025 · 38 min

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Adriana Aldana shares about Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance on episode 582 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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Quotes from the episode

One of our ethical obligations as social workers is to engage in self care to avoid burnout.

-Adriana Aldana

Their voice really comes through in the letter format in ways that I don’t see in other forms of writing. I encourage them to loosen up a little bit with what they think I am expecting them to write about or how to write.

-Adriana Aldana

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Resources

• Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance, by Adriana Aldana (centerforengagedlearning.org/books/counterstor…)

• Rest as Resistance, by Trisha Hersey (mahoganybooks.com/9780316365215)

• Rest as Resistance card deck (rep.club/products/nap-ministry-rest-deck)

• Episode 195: Considering Open Education with an Interdisciplinary Lens with Robin DeRosa (teachinginhighered.com/podcast/considering-ope…)

• Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, by Caro de Robertis (caroderobertis.com/books/radical-hope)

• Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory, by Aja Y. Martinez (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2021…)

• Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, by William Bridges (bookshop.org/a/79174/9780738219653)

• Elon University Center for Engaged Leanring Open Access Book Series (centerforengagedlearning.org/publications/open…)

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