“We Recruit”: Sexuality and Gender, “Queer Positive” Curriculum, and Teacher Knowledge and Identity

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers in this symposium present research on pre-service curriculum addressing the production and reproduction of heteronormativity in schools: papers address queering pre-service curriculum, theories of teacher identity, and analysis of transformations of teacher knowledge and teacher identity related to gender and sexuality. The papers use ethnographic methods to explore how future teachers incorporate knowledge of the sexual or gendered Other in the classroom into their personal and professional identity. The papers together present the application of theoretical frameworks for curriculum and instructional methods for queering teacher knowledge of gender and sexuality as well as analysis of pre-service students engagement in , resistance to, and transformation through these social justice based anti-homophobia, heteronormativiy, or gender and sexuality pre-service education courses.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Section 1: Critical Perspectives and Practices

Chair

• Elizabeth J. Meyer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Papers

• Queering Conceptions of Diversity: Centering LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) Issues Within a Social Justice Education Curriculum - Alison L. Schmitke, University of Oregon; Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

• It’s a Queer World: Synthesizing Popular Culture as Queer Education Curriculum - Sandra Schmidt, Teachers College, Columbia University

• We Recruit: Queering teacher identity through a course on homophobia - Tina Manuela Gutierez-Schmich, University of Oregon; Julia Irene Heffernan, University of Oregon

• Measuring Student Understanding of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer) Issues in Education - Timothy G. Larrabee, Oakland University; Brandelyn L. Tosolt, Northern Kentucky University

Discussant

• Elizabeth J. Meyer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo