Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword
Kris De Pedro
Preface: Entering the Conversation: Dancing with Dragons
Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher
Section I Introduction: Raising Awareness: Troubling the Waters
Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher
Chapter One: How Old Ideas Can Help New Teachers: Support for LGBTQ Students as a Core Value
Michael Sadowski
Chapter Two: Exploring LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Education: A Dialogue with Graduate Students
Lynda R. Wiest, Cynthia H. Brock, and Julie L. Pennington
Chapter Three: Speaking of Sexuality: Teaching, Learning, and Mothering through the Questions
Veronica E. Bloomfield
Chapter Four: Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Creating Spaces at the Intersection of Diversity and Controversy
Marni E. Fisher and Kevin Stockbridge
Interlude I: Traveling Poet
Stacy E. Schupmann
Section II Introduction: Climate and Culture: Fostering Positive Identities
Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher
Chapter Five: Educator Evaluations of School Climate for LGBTQ Students: A Reiteration of the Bullying Discourse
Melissa J. Smith and Elizabethe Payne
Chapter Six: Searching for Self and Society: Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Online
Elise Paradis
Chapter Seven: Changing School Culture through Gay-Straight Alliances
Markus Bidell
Chapter Eight: Queering Children's Literature: Rationale and Resources
Danné E. Davis
Interlude II: Do You Need My Queerness to Define Your Straightness: The Pedagogy of Queering-Deviance in the Academy
Anna V. Wilson
Section III Introduction: Transformative Practices
Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher
Chapter Nine: We Recruit: A Queer Pedagogy for Teacher Education
Julia Heffernan and Tina Gutierez-Schmich
Chapter Ten: Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom: LGBTQ Issues and Inclusive Classroom Practice
Sean Robinson
Chapter Eleven: Developing Critical Dialogue
J. Spencer Clark and James S. Brown
Chapter Twelve: Queer Earth: Troubling Dirt, Humanness, Gender Assumptions, and Binaries to Nurture Bioculturally Responsive Curricula
Marna Hauk
Dénouement: Speaking Up
Marni E. Fisher and Veronica E. Bloomfield
List of Contributors
Index
