Counterstory Pedagogy, with Adriana Aldana

Adriana Aldana shares about Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance on episode 582 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=&#8221;one-half first&#8221;] Quotes from the episode <img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-20220" src="https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png" alt="One of our ethical obligations as social workers is to engage in self care to avoid burnout. " width="930" height="620" srcset="https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png 930w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:300/h:200/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png 300w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:768/h:512/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png 768w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:600/h:400/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png 600w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:360/h:240/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png 360w, https://images.coachingforleaders.com/cb:ztCJ~31fd5/w:930/h:620/q:mauto/f:best/ig:avif/dpr:2/https://teachinginhighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/TIHE582-1.png 2x" sizes="(max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /> 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&#8217;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 [/divwrap][divwrap class=&#8221;one-half&#8221;] Resources Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance, by Adriana Aldana Rest as Resistance, by Trisha Hersey Rest as Resistance card deck Episode 195: Considering Open Education with an Interdisciplinary Lens with Robin DeRosa Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times, by Caro de Robertis Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory, by Aja Y. Martinez Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change, by William Bridges Elon University Center for Engaged Leanring Open Access Book Series [/divwrap]