LGBTQ voices in education
Subtitle: changing the culture of schooling
By: edited by Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781138187085; 9781138187092
Subjects: Sexual minorities; Gay students; Homosexuality and education; Lesbian students; Education; Transgender youth; Bisexual students
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : Entering the Conversation : Dancing with Dragons / Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher; title: Raising Awareness : Troubling the Waters / Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher; title: How Old Ideas Can Help New Teachers : Support for LGBTQ Students as a Core Value / Michael Sadowski; title: Exploring LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Education : A Dialogue with Graduate Students / Lynda R. Wiest, Cynthia H. Brock, and Julie L. Pennington; title: Speaking of Sexuality : Teaching, Learning, and Mothering through the Questions / Veronica E. Bloomfield; title: Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence : Creating Spaces at the Intersection of Diversity and Controversy / Marni E. Fisher and Kevin Stockbridge; title: Traveling Poet / Stacy E. Schupmann; title: Climate and Culture: Fostering Positive Identities / Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher; title: Educator Evaluations of School Climate for LGBTQ Students : A Reiteration of the Bullying Discourse / Melissa J. Smith and Elizabethe Payne; title: Searching for Self and Society : Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Online / Elise Paradis; title: Changing School Culture through Gay-Straight Alliances / Markus Bidell; title: Queering Children's Literature: Rationale and Resources / Danné E. Davis; title: Do You Need My Queerness to Define Your Straightness : The Pedagogy of Queering-Deviance in the Academy / Anna V. Wilson; title: Transformative Practices / Veronica E. Bloomfield and Marni E. Fisher; title: We Recruit : A Queer Pedagogy for Teacher Education / Julia Heffernan and Tina Gutierez-Schmich; title: Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom : LGBTQ Issues and Inclusive Classroom Practice / Sean Robinson; title: Developing Critical Dialogue / J. Spencer Clark and James S. Brown; title: Queer Earth : Troubling Dirt, Humanness, Gender Assumptions, and Binaries to Nurture Bioculturally Responsive Curricula / Marna Hauk; title: Dénouement : Speaking Up / Marni E. Fisher and Veronica E. Bloomfield.