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.
Author(s): Veronica E. Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher (eds.)
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 257
Tags: LGBTQ+
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
Dedication......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Preface: Entering the Conversation: Dancing with Dragons......Page 16
SECTION I Raising Awareness: Troubling the Waters......Page 32
1 How Old Ideas Can Help New Teachers: Support for LGBTQ Students as a Core Value......Page 34
2 Exploring LGBTQ Issues in K–12 Education: A Dialogue with Graduate Students......Page 44
3 Speaking of Sexuality: Teaching, Learning, and Mothering through the Questions......Page 58
4 Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Creating Spaces at the Intersection of Diversity and Controversy......Page 73
Interlude I: Traveling Poet and Bridge Over Troubled Waters......Page 90
SECTION II Climate and Culture: Fostering Positive Identities......Page 102
5 Educator Evaluations of School Climate for LGBTQ Students: A Reiteration of the Bullying Discourse......Page 104
6 Searching for Self and Society: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Online......Page 118
7 Changing School Culture through Gay–Straight Alliances......Page 133
8 Queering Children’s Literature: Rationale and Resources......Page 148
Interlude II: Do You Need My Queerness to Define Your Straightness? The Pedagogy of Queering-Deviance in the Academy......Page 164
SECTION III Transformative Practices......Page 174
9 We Recruit: A Queer Pedagogy for Teacher Education......Page 176
10 Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom: LGBTQ Issues and Inclusive Classroom Practice......Page 192
11 Developing Critical Dialogue......Page 207
12 Queer Earth: Troubling Dirt, Humanness, Gender Assumptions, and Binaries to Nurture Bioculturally Responsive Curricula......Page 217
Dénouement: Speaking Up......Page 232
Contributors......Page 237
Index......Page 242
