Patrick B. McGuigan
Oklahoma Metropolis – Professor Nyla Ali Khan continues her labor of affection in promotion of her latest e-book, a fusion of private reflections with tutorial in insights on youth trauma world wide, with specific concentrate on occasions in South Africa, her native Kashmir and different world “scorching spots.”
The e-book’s title distills its provocative content material: “Academic Methods for Youth Empowerment in Battle Zones: Remodeling, not Transmitting, Trauma” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). It’s accessible each in onerous cowl and digital format.
Dr. Nyla has change into hopeful the e-book might be used at Oklahoma faculties and universities. An upcoming occasion is a night reception in Oklahoma Metropolis on Thursday, July 1, co-hosted by Lance and Cindy Ruffel.
For data on the July 1 occasion, a by-invitation-only night gathering, please contact Pat Carr by this e mail deal with: [email protected].
The Metropolis Sentinel reported beforehand on a gathering of e-book lovers, previous mates and new, who met with Dr. Khan at Edmond’s Commonplace Books in late Might for a time of substantive dialogue and examination of sources of trauma and problem world wide.
That gathering provoked spirited exchanges and lasting recollections, regardless of the stormy Oklahoma climate that got here sweeping by the north Oklahoma Metropolis space throughout the night.
This previous week, Dr. Khan participated in one of many nationwide collection of “Constructing Bridges” digital conferences – this one primarily based on the College of Sciences and Arts (USAO in Chickasha). In feedback shared with The Metropolis Sentinel, Dr. Nyla defined:
“My function was to name consideration to non-Western societies which are fractured and traumatized, and that can proceed to sabotage themselves except they actively have interaction within the strategy of therapeutic.
“It was additionally my function to make use of the technique of comparability between traumatic histories with the intention to forge hyperlinks amongst these histories that may elevate the historic consciousnesses of peoples and promote their sense of civic accountability.”
It’s her conviction “a holistic schooling is just not merely concerning the memorization of details, information, and statistics, however is personally significant, socially related, culturally correct, pedagogically sound, and politically accountable.”
One of many different contributors on the USAO digital occasion, Dr. Noel Jacobs, is an Affiliate Professor of Pediatrics at OU Well being Sciences Heart. A licensed well being service psychologist within the part of Basic and Neighborhood Pediatrics, he works with sufferers with a spread of persistent situations.
In his evaluation of Dr. Nyla’s e-book, posted by the Amazon e-book sellers division, Dr. Jacobs wrote:
“Investing in a toddler’s creating thoughts is an important enterprise in our world, as all humanity will quickly rely on right now’s youth. Mother and father, faculties, communities, and nations typically see the longer term payoff of their younger residents economically or politically. Once they under-nourish or utterly keep away from the mandatory fostering of their vital pondering, company, and connectedness to the world round them, a paramount set of expertise will be misplaced in these youth.
“This e-book, subsequently, is of vital significance. Dr. Khan has lived, realized, and written about complicated social issues in societies fraught with inner and exterior pressures in addition to histories of dehumanization of ‘the opposite.’ She brings all her data and former work to the desk. The world should not be divided into East and West, good and unhealthy, developed and undeveloped, ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Media and political rhetoric could promote that dangerous pondering, as our growing connectedness by way of expertise can be utilized to additional divide and foment conflict. However the ceaseless work of consultants like Dr. Khan can assist our future leaders heal and bridge divides. This e-book incorporates crucial background and concrete steps towards engagement and civic constructing by confirmed strategies like story-telling and comparative studying.
“It’s a should learn for individuals who consider, as I do, that we’ve got every thing we want for a greater, extra equitable, and peaceable world tomorrow in our youth, who’re price each effort to nurture.”
Dr. Khan’s e-book may be ordered by these positive e-book shops: Barnes & Noble (nationwide), Commonplace Books Edmond and Full Circle Bookstore (Oklahoma Metropolis’s 50 Penn Place).
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