Overview

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.

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Author:   Veronica E. Bloomfield (Chapman University, USA) ,  Marni E. Fisher (Chapman University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781138187085

ISBN 10:   1138187089
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   12 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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

Reviews

From politicians to pundits to peers, we can hear homophobia normalized and routinized daily, but we can also insist that they not be what frame our experiences or our education, as is the call of Bloomfield, Fisher, and colleagues in this important new book. LGBTQ Voices in Education brings together a refreshingly diverse mix of scholars and educators from various disciplines to inspire changes that educators across grade levels and educational sessions can and should make possible for all of our students. --Kevin Kumashiro, Dean and Professor of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, USA, and author of Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning toward Social Justice

Author Information

Veronica E. Bloomfield is Adjunct Faculty in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University, USA. Marni E. Fisher is Adjunct Faculty in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University, USA.

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