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Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines the ways that school leaders used buzzwords when speaking about youth “emotional safety,” in a Chicago Public Schools safety reform aimed at reexamining the role of school policing. Drawing on observations from pandemic‐era virtual school council meetings, we suggest a recognizable register of speech developed around the topic of emotional safety, which school leaders engaged to meet the political demands placed upon them by the district and the public.

Source: Anthropology & Education Quarterly

DOI: 10.1111/aeq.70072

Authors: Uma Blanchard, Alexander Koenig, Micere Keels

Institution: University of Chicago

Language: English

Topic: Education Discipline and Inequality

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,400