Building Queer-Inclusive Curricula in a Teacher Education Course

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 5:10 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 4
  In Roundtable Session: Inclusive Teacher Education: Transforming Minds, Engaging Hearts, and Centering Queer Lives, Local Communities, and Transcultural Narratives (Table 4)

Abstract

Drawing from critical literacy and queer theory, this study presents my work as a teacher educator as I engage in design-based work aimed at revising a university course to reflect the diversity of the nation, including LGBTQ+ people. Aligned with scholarship on teaching and learning, I investigate the impact of these changes on student learning and commitment to queer-inclusive curricula in their future practice as teachers. Students' attitudes towards the module largely fell into three categories: those whose beliefs about LGBTQ+ students and queer-inclusive curricula were affirmed; those who were converted; and those who remain against queer-inclusive curricula.

Author

• Amanda R. Diaz, California State University - Fullerton