Culturally Generating Pedagogies: Lessons From LGBTQ+ Intergenerational Dialogues

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Thirteen
  In Roundtable Session: Queer Shifts in Theory Methods and Generational Dialogues (Table 19)

Abstract

In this paper, we explore “culturally generating pedagogies” as they emerged during three year-long sets of intergenerational dialogues involving LGBTQ+ younger (18-26) and older (60-82) adults. We root our research methodology within ethnographic experimentation. Ethnography allows for in-depth and sustained engagement between LGBTQ+ subjects as they (and we) unpack complex legacies that have limited LGBTQ+ intergenerational contact, historically and presently. This challenging and sometimes messy work is necessary for building an intergenerational LGBTQ+ community. The educational problem that we seek to address through LGBTQ+ intergenerational dialogues is epistemic injustice. Such dialogues, we argue, contribute to both countering the legacies of epistemic injustice by making visible LGBTQ+ knowledges and developing pedagogical practices that are culturally generating.

Authors

• Nic M. Weststrate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Presenting Author

• Karen Morris, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Non-Presenting Author

• Adam Joseph Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  Non-Presenting Author