Queering Bilingual Teaching in Elementary Schools and in Bilingual Teacher Education

Bibliographic Data

ID4255282
AuthorsCarol Brochin (corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume58
Issue1
Pages80-88
Publication date2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Into Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00405841.2018.1536917
OpenAlexW2898286887
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited13

This article provides insights into what is possible when a bilingual teacher education program provides support for teachers who want to discuss lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) topics in their classrooms. This study is set in Southern Arizona, a bilingual, multicultural community in predominantly Mexican American classrooms. I challenge the research and professional development in teacher education on diversity, multicultural and bilingual education to be inclusive of LGBTQ issues as critical and central to conversations on social justice education. This piece focuses on what a new teacher, with the support of a graduate program, did to mitigate homophobia in her classroom. Creating more inclusive bilingual teacher education programs is important because this work holds the possibility of creating allies who decrease the burden felt by queer people—students, teachers, families—in schools

Bilingual education · Diversity (politics · Homosexuality · Inclusion (mineral · Lesbian · Mathematics education · Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Professional development · Queer · Social justice · Sociology · Teacher education · Transgender · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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