Centering Trans Studies in Educational Research and Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel begins from the perspective that embracing trans studies in education through centering the experiences and perspectives of trans and nonbinary people in educational research and practice will create more inclusive education for everybody. To this effect, each paper in this panel will explore the implications of trans studies for different domains of educational research including (1) human development (2) mental health, (3) language education, and (4) education research methodology. Together, the papers point to the alternative worlds that deconstructing the overlapping ideologies of whiteness and cisnormativity make possible as a point of entry for imagining educational futures that are more liberatory for everybody.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• A Trans Studies Analysis of Child Gender Identity Development Theories - Alé Romero, Stanford University

• Reckoning With the Medical Oppression of Trans Bodies: Deconstructing the Clinical Space - Luis Ramirez, Ramirez Psychotherapy

• What Can Trans Studies Teach Us About Translanguaging? - Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

• Downstage Center: Centering Trans Ways of Knowing Through Theater as Research - Christina Cook, University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Harper B. Keenan, University of British Columbia