ABSTRACT
The idea to teach and study a semester-long teacher education course dedicated to gender and sexuality grew out of my experience with trying to address these issues in the undergraduate "Introduction to Education" courses that the Author taught. She organizes the course around two main concepts: Kevin Kumashiro's descriptions of anti-oppressive education, and the significance of narrative to our processes of making meaning. By basing the course in a foundation of anti-oppressive education, it hoped that students would learn about the lives and needs of LGBTQ youth, but that they would also become aware of systems of "privileging and othering". Anti-oppressive education focused on gender and sexuality in secondary schools. Students wrote two additional assignments at the end of the semester. The author describes how the student saw course readings, and themes influencing their future practice and educational philosophies. She describes the growth that we all experienced as we explored gender and sexuality in schools through talking, and own stories.
