Queering the Teacher as a Text in the English Language Arts Classroom: Beyond Books, Identity Work and Teacher Preparation.

摘要: Classrooms reflect and contribute to normative sex, gender sexuality categories in school culture, rules rituals. Texts, materials, curriculum the discourse we employ as educators perpetuate pervasiveness of these categories. This paper explores some less visible ways which sex are constructed US English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, how institutionalised heteronormativity positions students within sexuality. These limiting conversations difficult identify even more challenge. But it is precisely this dynamic – subconscious reinforcing binaries that upholds dominance institution heterosexuality. Merely addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) issues field teaching reading, writing literacy an incomplete strategy. To disrupt narratives ELA classroom, must first everyday pra...