Gender-Expansive and Democratizing Teacher Education: Envisioning Teaching and Teacher Education for Intersectional Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Research suggests that schools and teachers are not meeting the needs of trans and gender expansive students. Teacher education could play an essential role in supporting teachers’ preparedness to create gender expansive and democratizing classrooms. This symposium brings together scholars with a variety of intersectional lenses and theoretical perspectives engaged in the nascent field of gender expansive and gender democratizing approaches in teaching and teacher education. We aim to not only open dialogue about our research, but also to begin to collectively build a multifaceted vision of teacher education that intersectionally enhances and expands socially-just education as gender expansive and democratizing. This timely collaborative engagement in teacher education is critical given increasing attacks on expansive gender identities in schools.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 08: Intersectional Approaches to Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Elizabeth E. Blair, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Papers

• Beyond Pronouns: Gender Expansive and Democratizing Teacher Education Practice - Elizabeth E. Blair, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater; Sherry L. Deckman, Lehman College - CUNY

• Listening to LGBTQ* Educators: Lessons in Gender-Expansive Practice - Kathleen Elliott, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

• The Critical in Trans Pedagogy: (Re)Imagining Radical Creativity - Aubry D. Threlkeld, Threlkeld Educational Consulting

• Exploring Professional Development Models for LGBTQIA+-Inclusive and Gender-Expansive Pedagogy - Providence Ryan, Arizona State University; Susan Walker Woolley, Colgate University