A Study Between Two Continents: Supporting Preservice Teachers to Engage in LGBTQGV-Inclusive Curriculum

• In Event: 46.085 - Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 46.085-3 - Climate, Curriculum, and Conceptions of Self: Gender and Sexual Orientation in Schools

Abstract

This research presents a framework studied by two preservice into inservice teacher (PIIT) cohorts in two continents and contexts in the United States and (South) Africa for engaging “queerly” in classrooms. The intention of this study is threefold: (1). To build bridges between our respective sites that establish an active, contributing, network between PIITs that addresses LGBTQGVM issues (policy, curricula, social relationships) in secondary schools over time; (2). To develop and expand personal and professional dispositions that will mediate teaching about LGBTQGVM students; and (3). To provide a cross-cultural and cross-international model about how PIITs can study, interrogate, unpack, and teach others (e.g., university educators, policy makers, community members, parents, family, etc.) about LGBTQGVM issues in secondary schools.

Authors

• SJ Miller, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Dennis Francis, University of the Free State