ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

Raising Awareness

chapter |10 pages

How Old Ideas can Help New Teachers

Support for LGBTQ Students as a Core Value

chapter |15 pages

Speaking of Sexuality

Teaching, Learning, and Mothering through the Questions

chapter |16 pages

Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence

Creating Spaces at the Intersection of Diversity and Controversy

part |2 pages

Climate and Culture

chapter |14 pages

Educator Evaluations of School Climate for LGBTQ Students

A Reiteration of the Bullying Discourse

chapter |15 pages

Searching for Self and Society

Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Online

chapter |16 pages

Queering Children's Literature

Rationale and Resources

chapter |10 pages

Do You Need My Queerness to Define Your Straightness?

The Pedagogy of Queering-Deviance in the Academy

part |2 pages

Transformative Practices

chapter |16 pages

We Recruit

A Queer Pedagogy for Teacher Education

chapter |15 pages

Out of the Closet and into the Classroom

LGBTQ Issues and Inclusive Classroom Practice

chapter |15 pages

Queer Earth

Troubling Dirt, Humanness, Gender Assumptions, and Binaries to Nurture Bioculturally Responsive Curricula

chapter |5 pages

Dénouement

Speaking Up