RT Article
T1 Addressing the Sex Abuse Crisis in Communities of Faith and Learning
JF Religious education
VO 115
IS 3
SP 335
OP 342
A1 Procario-Foley, Carl
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1725996952
AB This paper argues that educational communities of faith and learning (e.g. Catholic colleges and universities) are especially primed to face into the pain and reality of the sex abuse crisis in honest and constructive ways. Citing the need for strategic collaboration between mental health professionals and religious educators, it calls for pedagogies which: are trauma-informed and utilize the insights of neuroscience; promote open dialogue in the face of organizational silence; foster safe and courageous spaces; attend to the dangerous memory and deep impacts which accompany survivors of the sex abuse. It argues that failure to address the sex abuse crisis with open and interdisciplinary discourse fosters a null curriculum that will only serve to have corrosive implications.
K1 sex abuse
K1 brave spaces
K1 Null curriculum
K1 Trauma-informed
DO 10.1080/00344087.2020.1738133