Abstract
The profiles of Amy Cuddy and Avital Ronell are included in this chapter on higher education. They each highlight the various ways that bullying thrives in higher education, fueling other examples of Spectral Educational Trauma. Each of these cases positions the educator as either bully or victim, yet both accurately describe just how insidious and violent bullying is at the top of the education food chain. There are several important ways that higher education has strong influences on K12 education, which are revealed here. Furthermore, the case of Amy Cuddy also demonstrates how a field tried is trying to grow and shift for the better, yet does so at the expense of one.
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The act of civil disobedience was to use mastery based grading in higher education even if it required more of my time. It was my way of willfully disobeying the prevailing culture of grading in higher education to make a statement that grading is harmful to students and hampers the learning process.
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Self-empathy is defined as seeking to know oneself by intentionally engaging the observing ego, as if looking inward from the outside, with curiosity, interest, open balanced awareness, and above all else, self-acceptance. It’s a way of shining the light of inquiry upon oneself, intentionally and with kindness.
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This is yet another example of Freud’s defense mechanism, Identification with the Aggressor.
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Gray, LA. (2019). Higher Education. In: Educational Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28083-3_16
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