Full Description
Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader explores how the category queer, as a critical stance or set of perspectives, contributes to opportunities individually and collectively for advancing queer social justice within the context and concerns of schooling and education. The collection takes up this general goal by presenting a cross-section of international perspectives on queer studies in education to demonstrate commonalities, differences, uncertainties, or pluralities across a diverse range of national contexts and topics, drawing a heightened awareness of heterodominance and heteropatriarchy, and to conceptualize non-normative and non-essentialist imaginings for more inclusive educational environments.
Collectively, the chapters critically engage with heteronormativity and normativity more generally as a political spectrum, over a broad range of formal and informal sites of education, and against a backdrop of critiques of liberalism and neoliberalism as the frameworks through which "achievable" social change and belonging are fostered, particularly within educational settings. Taken together, the chapters assembled in Queer Studies and Education invite researchers, scholars, educators, activists, and other cultural workers to examine the multiplicity of contemporary (international) work in queer studies and education with readers' interpretations of queer's deployment across the chapters forming the compass for which to arrive at fresh insights and forms of queer critical praxis.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Reading Queer Studies and/in Education: International Contexts and Perspectives
Nelson M. Rodriguez, Robert C. Mizzi, Louisa Allen, and Rob Cover
Chapter 1: Space, Place, and Queerness: The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus>' Queer Zoning
Adwoa Onuora and Nadeen Spence
Chapter 2: A Queer Sexuality Education: The Possibilities and Impossibilities of Knowing
Naomi Rudoe
Chapter 3: Rupturing the 'Cul-de-Sac': Queer(y)ing Graduate Education Studies
James Burford and Genine Hook
Chapter 4: Racism, Heteronormativity, and Educational Assemblage in Germany
María do Mar Castro Varela and Yener Bayramoglu
Chapter 5: Queered Failure and Management Education
Nick Rumens
Chapter 6: Navigating Personal and Professional Identities in the Higher Education Workplace: A Facilitated Autoethnography
Craig M. McGill, Tonette S. Rocco, Joshua C. Collins, Lorenzo Bowman, Rod P. Githens, Holly M. Hutchins, Nathan Victoria, Saul Carliner, Gisela P. Vega, Julie Gedro, and Thomas Nechodomu
Chapter 7: Shifting the Gaze: A Decolonial Queer Analysis of Photographs of the Canadian Indian Residential Schools
Spy Dénommé-Welch and Robert C. Mizzi
Chapter 8: "No Queers, No Marching Bands": Schools, Social Recognition, and Gender Visibility on the Brazil-Bolivia Border
Tiago Duque and Gustavo Moura
Chapter 9: Timely Interventions: Queer Activist Early Childhood Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alexandra C. Gunn
Chapter 10: Beyond 'Abstinence-Only': The U.S. Christian Right's 'Pro-Family' Countermovement against Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Eastern and Southern Africa
Finn Reygan and Haley McEwen
Chapter 11: Queering School Sport and Physical Education
Richard Pringle and Dillon Landi
Chapter 12: Queer Screen Pedagogies: Australian Queer Audiences and the Educational Value of LGBTQ Film and Television Stories
Rob Cover
Chapter 13: The Possibilities and Futurities of LGBTQ Youth: Thinking from a Queer of Color Critique in Educational Research
Andrea Vasquez and Cindy Cruz
Chapter 14: An Assimilation or Transgression of 'Normativities': A Qualitative Sociological Exploration of the Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Students at a South African University
Tshanduko Tshilongo and Jacques Rothmann
Chapter 15: Norm-Critical Pedagogy as Femo- and Homonationalism: Perspectives on Norm Critique in Swedish Research, Activism, and Educational Practice
Eva Reimers
Chapter 16: 'The Only Orange Park Bench': Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Campus Experiences of LGBTIQA+ Students
John Fenaughty, Lucy Cowie, and Louisa Allen
Chapter 17: Trans Children in Primary Schools: Thinking Queerly About Happiness and Time
Aoife Neary
Chapter 18: Queer Love and Education
Nelson M. Rodriguez and William F. Pinar
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