The Forgotten: The Internalized Effects of School Specific Slow Violence

Authors

Kala JonesFollow

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Teaching and Learning

First Advisor's Name

Dr. James Burns

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Rebecca Christ

Second Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Third Advisor's Name

Christopher Busey

Third Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fourth Advisor's Name

Maria Lovett

Fourth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Keywords

Slow violence, education, yPAR, action research, CRT

Date of Defense

6-27-2022

Abstract

Due to its nuanced character traits, slow violence has been allowed to persist within our society for centuries, resulting in impacts that have historically reached catastrophic proportions. With a focus on the education realm, this study describes the impact of school specific slow violence on marginalized communities. The purpose of this study was three-fold: (1) It sought to investigate how school specific slow violence has impacted the lives of Black and Latinx folx, (2) to explore how survivors of school specific slow violence made meaning of the experiences, and (3) investigate its influence on co-researchers’ agency via activism as we co-created a social action plan to mitigate specific slow violence acts. This youth participatory action research study centered ten recent graduates of a low-income and majority Black high school in South Florida. The data culminated in four major themes that highlighted the experiences of these recent graduates, which included a correlation between trauma and triumph, slow violence’s impact on the accountability co-researchers assigned to culpable parties, the increase in agency with the introduction of new knowledge and the effects of pride on co-researcher’s perception.

Identifier

FIDC010799

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6557-1419

Recommended Citation

Jones, Kala, "The Forgotten: The Internalized Effects of School Specific Slow Violence" (2022). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5015.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/5015