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Queering Elementary Education

Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling
Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series

von: William J. Letts, James T. Sears, Kathy Bickmore, Perry Brass, Betsy Cahill, Kevin Colleary, Greg Curran, Barbara Danish, James Earl Davis, Kate Evans, Karen Glasgow, Pat Hulsebosch, Kevin Jennings, Gigi Kaeser, James R. King, Rita Kissen, Mari E. Koerner, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Glorianne Leck, William J. Letts IV, Rita M. Marinoble, Gregory Martinez, Wayne Martino, Margaret Mulhern, Sharon Murphy, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Eric Rofes, Daniel Ryan, Mara Sapon-Shevin, Jennifer Jasinski Schneider, Rachel Theilheimer, , LisaWeems
48,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	27.10.1999
ISBN/EAN:	9781461641612
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	320

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Titelbeschreibung

Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness. Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity for understanding and their educative abilities to foster insight into the human condition. Those who teach queerly refuse to participate in the great sexual sorting machine called schooling where diminutive GI Joes and Barbies become star quarterbacks and prom queens, while the Linuses and Tinky Winkies become wallflowers or human doormats. Queeering education means bracketing our simplest classroom activities in which we routinely equate sexual identities with sexual acts, privilege the heterosexual condition, and presume sexual destinies. Queer teachers are those who develop curriculum and pedagogy that afford every child dignity rooted in self-worth and esteem for others. In short, queering education happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out. This groundbreaking volume demands we explore taken-for-granted assumptions about diversity, identities, childhood, and prejudice.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Foreword
 Chapter 2 Mathew's Lullaby
 Part 3 Foundational Issues
 Chapter 4 Teaching Queerly: Some Elementary Propositions
 Chapter 5 Why Discuss Sexuality in Elementary School?
 Chapter 6 Pestalozzi, Perversity, and the Pedagogy of Love
 Part 7 Children's Social and Sexual Development
 Chapter 8 Stonewall in the Housekeeping Area: Gay and Lesbian Issues in the Early Childhood Classroom
 Chapter 9 Forbidden Fruit: Black Males' Constructions of Transgressive Sexualities in Middle School
 Chapter 10 Reading Queer Asian-American Masculinities and Sexualities in Elementary School
 Chapter 11 "My Moving Days": A Child's Negotiation of Multiple Lifeworlds in Relation to Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality
 Chapter 12 What Happens When Kids Grow Up?: The Long-term Impact of an Openly Gay Teacher on Eight Students' Lives
 Part 13 Curriculum
 Chapter 14 How to Make "Boys" and "Girls" in the Classroom: The Heteronormative Nature of Elementary School Science
 Chapter 15 Using Music to Teach Against Homophobia
 Chapter 16 Locating a Place for Gay and Lesbian Themes in Elementary Reading, Writing, and Talking
 Chapter 17 "It's OK to be Gay:" Interrupting Straight Thinking in the English Classroom
 Chapter 18 How Teachers Understand Gay and Lesbian Content in the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum
 Part 19 Family
 Chapter 20 Children of the Future Age: Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk about School
 Chapter 21 Love Makes a Family: Controversy in Two Massachusetts Towns
 Chapter 22 Supporting Students/Responding to Gay and Lesbian Parents
 Chapter 23 Placing Children First: The Importance of Mutual Presence in the Elementary Classroom
 Part 24 Educators and Their Allies
 Chapter 25 Activism Within: Working with Tension
 Chapter 26 Success Sories of a Fat, Biracial/Black, Jewish, Lesbian Assistant Principal
 Chapter 27 Lesbian Mother and Lesbian Educator: An Integrative View of Affirming Sexual Diversity
 Chapter 28 When "Queer" and "Teacher" Meet
 Chapter 29 Confronting Homophobia in a Multicultural Education Course
 Chapter 30 Afterword
 Chapter 31 Bibliography of Resources

Autorenportrait

William J. Letts IV is a lecturer in science education at the Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia. James T. Sears is an independent scholar. He is currently a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.