Cynthia D Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 170658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia D Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia D |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney; Sydney Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0871-4019 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conflict, Militarization, and Their After-Effects: Key Challenges for Tesol
Skyrocketing military spending, ongoing military conflicts, and human displacement worldwide have significant consequences for the teaching and learning of English. TESOL increasingly requires a robust research base that can provide informed, critical guidance in preparing English language teachers for work in and near conflict zones, for teaching refugees and asylum seekers, and, more broadly, for teaching English in highly militarized times. Th…
Live theatre: A dynamic medium for engaging with intercultural education research
In this paper, I discuss live theatre as a highly effective and dynamic medium for facilitating meaningful engagement with research on intercultural education. I make the case that ethnographic, or research-based, theatre can productively showcase challenging social issues and the sometimes confusing, poignant and humorous complexities of grappling with culturally unfamiliar and ambiguous situations. The paper features examples from the creation,…
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or qu…
Narratives of Classroom Life: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
Narratives of classroom life—the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like—remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom‐life narrat…
A Gay Immigrant Student's Perspective: Unspeakable Acts in the Language Class
This article focuses on a subset of the student cohort that has, until recently, been largely hidden from view in the literature of language education: gay immigrants. Little is known about what sorts of classroom experiences gay immigrant students find engaging or alienating, or why this sort of knowledge is needed. This case study uses interview excerpts to examine self‐accounts of three classroom interactions that were significant to Pablo (a …
Why Queer Theory is Useful in Teaching: A Perspective from English as a Second Language Teaching
In education there has been growing interest in making teaching practices more inclusive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and issues. However, the emphasis on including-and legitimating-“sub-ordinate” sexual identities is being challenged by queer theory, which draws on post-structuralist theories of identity. With queer theory, the aim is not to accomplish inclusion but to facilitate inquiry-that is, to investigate the ways in which sexual i…
Irish Gardening and Horticulture
Conflict, Militarization, and Their After-Effects: Key Challenges for Tesol
Skyrocketing military spending, ongoing military conflicts, and human displacement worldwide have significant consequences for the teaching and learning of English. TESOL increasingly requires a robust research base that can provide informed, critical guidance in preparing English language teachers for work in and near conflict zones, for teaching refugees and asylum seekers, and, more broadly, for teaching English in highly militarized times. Th…
A Gay Immigrant Student's Perspective: Unspeakable Acts in the Language Class
This article focuses on a subset of the student cohort that has, until recently, been largely hidden from view in the literature of language education: gay immigrants. Little is known about what sorts of classroom experiences gay immigrant students find engaging or alienating, or why this sort of knowledge is needed. This case study uses interview excerpts to examine self‐accounts of three classroom interactions that were significant to Pablo (a …
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or qu…
Narratives of Classroom Life: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
Narratives of classroom life—the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like—remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom‐life narrat…
Live theatre: A dynamic medium for engaging with intercultural education research
In this paper, I discuss live theatre as a highly effective and dynamic medium for facilitating meaningful engagement with research on intercultural education. I make the case that ethnographic, or research-based, theatre can productively showcase challenging social issues and the sometimes confusing, poignant and humorous complexities of grappling with culturally unfamiliar and ambiguous situations. The paper features examples from the creation,…
Irish Gardening and Horticulture
Why Queer Theory is Useful in Teaching: A Perspective from English as a Second Language Teaching
In education there has been growing interest in making teaching practices more inclusive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and issues. However, the emphasis on including-and legitimating-“sub-ordinate” sexual identities is being challenged by queer theory, which draws on post-structuralist theories of identity. With queer theory, the aim is not to accomplish inclusion but to facilitate inquiry-that is, to investigate the ways in which sexual i…
A Gay Immigrant Student's Perspective: Unspeakable Acts in the Language Class
This article focuses on a subset of the student cohort that has, until recently, been largely hidden from view in the literature of language education: gay immigrants. Little is known about what sorts of classroom experiences gay immigrant students find engaging or alienating, or why this sort of knowledge is needed. This case study uses interview excerpts to examine self‐accounts of three classroom interactions that were significant to Pablo (a …
Narratives of Classroom Life: Changing Conceptions of Knowledge
Narratives of classroom life—the type that blend analysis with artistry, in the form of plays, poems, stories, and the like—remain relatively uncommon within language education research. Yet such narratives have the potential to make a significant and timely contribution to the field, given the ways in which knowledge is being reconceptualised in this postmodern, transglobal era. Here I make a case that incorporating crafted classroom‐life narrat…
Emerging queer epistemologies in studies of 'gay'-student discourses
Education is arguably one of the most significant, urgent, and rapidly changing arenas for research on language and sexual identity, but there has been little synthesis to date of the knowledge and theories of knowledge that are emerging through this work. Here I survey a relatively small but important segment of this disparate literature: studies that investigate classroom talk about and by students who either self-identify as gay, lesbian or qu…
Live theatre: A dynamic medium for engaging with intercultural education research
In this paper, I discuss live theatre as a highly effective and dynamic medium for facilitating meaningful engagement with research on intercultural education. I make the case that ethnographic, or research-based, theatre can productively showcase challenging social issues and the sometimes confusing, poignant and humorous complexities of grappling with culturally unfamiliar and ambiguous situations. The paper features examples from the creation,…
Conflict, Militarization, and Their After-Effects: Key Challenges for Tesol
Skyrocketing military spending, ongoing military conflicts, and human displacement worldwide have significant consequences for the teaching and learning of English. TESOL increasingly requires a robust research base that can provide informed, critical guidance in preparing English language teachers for work in and near conflict zones, for teaching refugees and asylum seekers, and, more broadly, for teaching English in highly militarized times. Th…
Pedagogy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies in Language (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works)