Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Education
An Act Of Hospitality: From Clinical To Trauma-Informed Academic Support, Melinda M. Dewsbury
An Act Of Hospitality: From Clinical To Trauma-Informed Academic Support, Melinda M. Dewsbury
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
Higher education environments tend to sustain interpretations of student success that place the responsibility on students alone. This perspective, often described as deficit thinking, shapes educational responses into remedial ones. In this view, students who struggle do so because of poor study skills or habits. Academic support, then, fills the students with what they lack. This approach assumes that all students access learning in the same way, and that all students are equally able to make good academic choices. However, research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) finds that many students bring with them a history of trauma, which changes the …