Queering Straight Teachers

Queering Straight Teachers
Author: Nelson M. Rodriguez
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820488479

Much of the focus of anti-homophobic/anti-heterosexist educational theory, curriculum, and pedagogy has examined the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) students and teachers. Such a focus has provided numerous theoretical and pedagogical insights, and has informed important changes in educational policy. Queering Straight Teachers: Discourse and Identity in Education remains deeply committed to the social justice project of improving the lives of GLBT students and teachers. However, in contrast with much of the previous scholarship, Queering Straight Teachers shifts the focus from an analysis of the GLBT «Other» to a critical examination of what it might mean, in theory and in practice, to queer straight teachers, and the implications this has for challenging institutionalized heteronormativity in education. This book will be useful in courses on educational foundations, curriculum studies, multicultural education, queer theory, gay and lesbian studies, and critical theory.

Queering Elementary Education

Queering Elementary Education
Author: William J. Letts
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780847693696

This volume assembles a range of writers from diverse backgrounds and geographies to examine five broadly-defined areas in elementary education: foundational issues; social and sexual development; curriculum; the family; and gay/lesbian educators and their allies.

Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education

Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education
Author: Nelson M. Rodriguez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137554258

This book advances a broad constellation of critical concepts situated within the field of queer studies and education. Collectively, the concepts take up a cross-section of scholarship that speaks to various political, epistemological, theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical concerns. Given the ongoing global centrality of sociocultural and political developments related to the topic of LGBTQ in the twenty-first century, the concepts in this volume and the issues raised by each contributor will have wide international appeal among researchers, scholars, educators, students, and activists working at the intersection of queer studies and education.

Educators Queering Academia

Educators Queering Academia
Author: sj Miller
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016
Genre: Gay and lesbian studies
ISBN: 9781433134302

Jen Gilbert: Foreword - Acknowledgments - sj Miller and Nelson M. Rodriguez: Introduction: The Critical Praxis of Queer Memoirs in Education - Part 1: Queer Paranoia: To Risk or Not to Risk - Adam J. Greteman: Contingent Labor, Contingently Queer - Summer Pennell: Queer Paranoia: Worrying About and Through a Queer Dissertation Study - Ryan Burns and Janet D. Johnson: Reconciling the Personal and Professional: Coming Out From the Classroom Closet - Part 2: Queered Tensions: Beyond the Academy - Sara Staley and Bethy Leonardi: Remaining Stubbornly Faithful: What Queering Academia Does to Queer Teacher-Scholars - Michael Borgstrom: Inside. Out. Queer Time in Midcareer - Kristen A. Renn: How I Met Foucault: An Intellectual Career in, Around, and Near Queer Theory - Part 3: Queering Academic Spaces: Renarrating Lives - Nelson M. Rodriguez: From Doctoral Student to Dr. Sweetie Darling: My Queer(ing) Journey in Academia - Jenny Kassen and Alicia Lapointe: Working With and Within: Weaving Queer Spaces With Cycles of Resistance - Stephanie Anne Shelton: Adopting a Queer Pedagogy as a Teaching Assistant - Michael Wenk: Sanctioning Unsanctioned Texts: The True Story of a Gay Writer - Part 4: Misrecognition: From Invisibility Into Visibility- sj Miller: (Un)becoming Trans*: Every Breath You Take and Every ... - Kerrita K. Mayfield: Queering the Inquiry Body: Critical Science Teaching From the Margins - Darrell Cleveland Hucks: Intersectional Warrior: Battling the Onslaught of Layered Microaggressions in the Academy - Erich N. Pitcher: Undone and (Mis)Recognized: Disorienting Experiences of a Queer, Trans* Educator - Part 5: The Political Is Personal - Catherine A. Lugg: Slam Dunk on Tenure? Not So Fast ... - Kamden K. Strunk, Douglas R. Bristol, and William C. Takewell: Queering South Mississippi: Simple and Seemingly Impossible Work - Scotty M. Secrist: Smear the Queer: A Critical Memoir - Thabo Msibi: "I heard it from a good source": Queer Desire and Homophobia in a South African Higher Education Institution - Part 6: Queered All the Way Through - David Lee Carlson: A Profound Moment of Passing - Dana M. Stachowiak: Being Queer in Academia?Queering Academia - William F. Pinar: The Constant in My Life - Contributors

Queer Masculinities

Queer Masculinities
Author: John Landreau
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400725523

Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education is a substantial addition to the discussion of queer masculinities, of the interplay between queer masculinities and education, and to the political gender discourse as a whole. Enriching the discourse of masculinity politics, the cross-section of scholarly interrogations of the complexities and contradictions of queer masculinities in education demonstrates that any serious study of masculinity—hegemonic or otherwise—must consider the theoretical and political contributions that the concept of queer masculinity makes to a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of masculinity itself. The essays adopt a range of approaches from empirical studies to reflective theorizing, and address themselves to three separate educational realms: the K-12 level, the collegiate level, and the level in popular culture, which could be called ‘cultural pedagogy’. The wealth of detailed analysis includes, for example, the notion that normative expectations and projections on the part of teachers and administrators unnecessarily reinforce the values and behaviors of heteronormative masculinity, creating an institutionalized loop that disciplines masculinity. At the same time, and for this very reason, schools represent an opportunity to ‘provide a setting where a broader menu can be introduced and gender/sexual meanings, expressions, and experiences boys encounter can create new possibilities of what it can mean to be male’. At the collegiate level chapters include analysis of what the authors call ‘homosexualization of heterosexual men’ on the university dance floor, while the chapters of the third section, on popular culture, include a fascinating analysis of the construction of queer ‘counternarratives’ that can be constructed watching TV shows of apparently hegemonic bent. In all, this volume’s breadth and detail make it a landmark publication in the study of queer masculinities, and thus in critical masculinity studies as a whole.

Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals

Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals
Author: Hartsfield, Danielle E.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799873773

Perspectives and identity are typically reinforced at a young age, giving teachers the responsibility of selecting reading material that could potentially change how the child sees the world. This is the importance of sharing diverse literature with today’s children and young adults, which introduces them to texts that deal with religion, gender identities, racial identities, socioeconomic conditions, etc. Teachers and librarians play significant roles in placing diverse books in the hands of young readers. However, to achieve the goal of increasing young people’s access to diverse books, educators and librarians must receive quality instruction on this topic within their university preparation programs. The Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals is a comprehensive reference source that curates promising practices that teachers and librarians are currently applying to prepare aspiring teachers and librarians for sharing and teaching diverse youth literature. Given the importance of sharing diverse books with today’s young people, university educators must be aware of engaging and effective methods for teaching diverse literature to pre-service teachers and librarians. Covering topics such as syllabus development, diversity, social justice, and activity planning, this text is essential for university-level teacher educators, library educators who prepare pre-service teachers and librarians, university educators, faculty, adjunct instructors, researchers, and students.

Queer Theory in Education

Queer Theory in Education
Author: William F. Pinar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-10-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113570645X

Theoretical studies in curriculum have begun to move into cultural studies--one vibrant and increasingly visible sector of which is queer theory. Queer Theory in Education brings together the most prominent and promising scholars in the field of education--primarily but not exclusively in curriculum--in the first volume on queer theory in education. In his perceptive introduction, the editor outlines queer theory as it is emerging in the field of education, its significance for all scholars and teachers, and its relation to queer theory in literacy theory and more generally, in the humanities.

Queer Teachers, Identity and Performativity

Queer Teachers, Identity and Performativity
Author: A. Harris
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137441925

What do we mean when we talk about 'queer teachers'? The authors here grapple with what it means to be sexually or gender diverse and to work as a school teacher within four national contexts: Australia, Ireland, the UK and the USA. This new volume offers academics, educators and students a provocative exploration of this pivotal topic.

Queer Studies

Queer Studies
Author: Bruce Henderson
Publisher: Harrington Park Press, LLC
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2019
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781939594334

Queer Studies is designed as an advanced undergraduate textbook in queer studies for this rapidly growing field. It is also appropriate as a required or recommended graduate textbook. The author uses the overarching concept of queering as a way of looking at the lives of queer people across a range of disciplines.

LGBTQ Voices in Education

LGBTQ Voices in Education
Author: Veronica E. Bloomfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-04-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317285913

LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of Schooling addresses the ways in which teachers can meet the needs of LGBTQ students and improve the culture surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity issues in formal learning environments. Written by experts from a variety of backgrounds including educational foundations, leadership, cultural studies, literacy, criminology, theology, media assessment, and more, these chapters are designed to help educators find the inspiration and support they need to become allies and advocates of queer students, whose safety, well-being, and academic performance are regularly and often systemically threatened. Emphasizing socially just curricula, supportive school climates, and transformative educational practices, this innovative book is applicable to K-12, college-level, and graduate settings, and beyond.