Curriculum's Hidden Closest: Disrupting Discourses in Social Studies Using Gender and Sexuality

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Beyond the Binary: Unraveling Gendered Discourses Across the Curriculum

Abstract

How social studies teachers assert (and negotiate) critical stances highlights both the context of contemporary classrooms and the politics of belonging. In too many ways schools are warped by a pervasive neoliberal agenda that serves to constrict rather than nurture inclusive and democratic spaces (Author 2, 2018). For instance, the official school curriculum employs a myriad of mechanisms of control that ensure a dehumanizing and marginalizing experiences for African American (e.g. Vickery, 2017), Asian American (e.g. Naseem Rodriguez, 2018), Latinx (e.g. Santiago, 2016), Indigenous (e.g. Lomawaima, 2002), and the LGBTQ communities (e.g. Flinders & Thornton, 2003).

Authors

• Steven R. Montemayor, Alamo Colleges - Northwest Vista College

• Cinthia S. Salinas, The University of Texas at Austin

• Maria E. Franquiz, University of Texas Austin