Locating Transgender Within the Language of Queer in Teacher Education

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12764490
AutoresEli Kean (0000-0002-9947-9204, University of Missouri, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume22
Fascículo2
Páginas57-67
Data de publicação2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMulticultural Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-7892 • E-ISSN: 1521-0960
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15210960.2020.1741371
OpenAlexW3027550801
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas39

Queer is difficult to pin down conceptually; it is willfully disruptive, intentionally destabilizing everything from identity to knowledge to politics to power. The intent of this article is to illuminate some of the ways teacher educators are conceptually connecting queer to transgender identities and experiences in their classroom curriculum and pedagogical strategies. The data discussed in this article refers to three courses designed for pre-service teachers and include transgender content. A syllabus analysis and interviews illuminated the various ways queer is being conceptualized in different ways by each teacher educator. Trans identities and experiences were affirmed to various degrees through the participants’ conceptualizations of queer as an identity, queer as an embodiment/expression, queer as an analytical approach, and queer as a political project. Fundamental to the instructors’ understanding of queer was an intentional subversiveness, an affinity for non-conformity and disruption, and a commitment to anti-assimilationist practices. Furthermore, the participants saw trans and queer connecting through a common gender socialization experience and social positioning outside gender norms, and through a mutual vulnerability to heteronormativity as a system of oppression—particularly those who are both trans and queer

Aesthetics · Heteronormativity · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Lesbian · Oppression · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sexual identity · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Transgender · Transphobia · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy