I am somebody who stumbled into a recognition that the impact of violence on learning is the elephant in the room – obvious, shaping all educational interactions, but unspoken – during my doctoral research in the 80s.
Since then I have researched, written, and led practitioner-research teams, to understand these impacts more clearly. More importantly perhaps, I have spent more than 30 years working to discover and teach ways to reduce the negative impacts of any form of tough experiences and to support learning for everyone, whatever the past or present experiences that shape their engagement with learning or teaching.
