What Has Been (or Can Be) Said About Gay Male Teachers

• In Event: Gay Male Teachers in the South and Beyond

Abstract

This paper critically examines what has been said about the experiences of gay men as teachers within scholarship in queer and trans educational studies. It explores both scholarship about and by gay male teachers and how that work has been engaged by other scholars within queer and trans studies in education in recent decades. To do so, this paper analyzes scholarship from the early days of queer and trans scholarship within the field of educational studies. Specifically it uses Britzman and Gilbert’s provocations to reconsider the use of narrative in education research from their piece What Has Been Said about Gayness in Teacher Education (2004) to read through early works by Jonathan Silin and Eric Rofes and scholarship that has cited this work since. These provocations are used to rethink the stories that have long been told about gay male teachers and how their stories are being told today.

Author

• Sam Stiegler, University of Melbourne