Queer Studies and Education
An International Reader
Rob Cover editor Louisa Allen editor Nelson M Rodriguez editor Robert C Mizzi editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:7th Dec '23
£71.00
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Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader explores how the category queer, as a critical stance or set of perspectives, contributes to opportunities individually and collectively for advancing queer social justice within the context and concerns of schooling and education. The collection takes up this general goal by presenting a cross-section of international perspectives on queer studies in education to demonstrate commonalities, differences, uncertainties, or pluralities across a diverse range of national contexts and topics, drawing a heightened awareness of heterodominance and heteropatriarchy, and to conceptualize non-normative and non-essentialist imaginings for more inclusive educational environments. Collectively, the chapters critically engage with heteronormativity and normativity more generally as a political spectrum, over a broad range of formal and informal sites of education, and against a backdrop of critiques of liberalism and neoliberalism as the frameworks through which "achievable" social change and belonging are fostered, particularly within educational settings. Taken together, the chapters assembled in Queer Studies and Education invite researchers, scholars, educators, activists, and other cultural workers to examine the multiplicity of contemporary (international) work in queer studies and education with readers' interpretations of queer's deployment across the chapters forming the compass for which to arrive at fresh insights and forms of queer critical praxis.
This book takes us on a fascinating journey across various countries, shedding light on queer perspectives in education. It engages with the potential of queer as a critical approach to foster just and ethical relations in education. Each chapter in the book provides direction for further possibilities and alternate ways of imagining education for a queer-to-come future. It is essential reading for academics and students working to end heteropatriarchal dominance and oppression and provides fresh insights for this endeavor. * Deevia Bhana, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa *
Advocates and activists focused on inclusion and accommodation of sexual and gender differences in schooling, teacher education, and other educational domains will find this eclectic edited book useful to build knowledge and understanding of queer and trans identities and issues in racial and other intersections and in global contexts. In doing so, this book places student integrity and agency at the heart of education. * André P. Grace, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada *
Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader showcases the rich pathways through which queer studies in education is currently travelling - regionally, theoretically, and practically. The collection is deliberately future oriented; readers who engage this text will be inspired to take queer studies elsewhere. It will stimulate thinking and debate among undergraduates and postgraduate students across diverse disciplines and country contexts. * Mary Lou Rasmussen, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia *
Melding queer with education, this collection of essays unsettles heteronormative assumptions in education, addresses racism and racialization processes within institutions, and presents limitations in queer pedagogy. This reader underscores the need to examine queerness and education continuously in an era where neoliberal regimes, homophobia and queer visibility collide, pointing to a critical assessment of pedagogical practices and curriculum, queer or not. Queer Studies and Education is a must-read book and an urgent theoretical intervention that is international in scope, global in reach and timely in its subject matter. * Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong *
ISBN: 9780197687000
Dimensions: 226mm x 157mm x 43mm
Weight: 703g
408 pages