Queering Elementary Education

Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling

By: James T. Sears (Editor), William J. Letts IV (Editor)

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Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness. Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity for understanding and their educative abilities to foster insight into the human condition. Those who teach queerly refuse to participate in the great sexual sorting machine called schooling where diminutive GI Joes and Barbies become star quarterbacks and prom queens, while the Linuses and Tinky Winkies become wallflowers or human doormats. Queeering education means bracketing our simplest classroom activities in which we routinely equate sexual identities with sexual acts, privilege the heterosexual condition, and presume sexual destinies. Queer teachers are those who develop curriculum and pedagogy that afford every child dignity rooted in self-worth and esteem for others. In short, queering education happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out. This groundbreaking volume demands we explore taken-for-granted assumptions about diversity, identities, childhood, and prejudice.

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This courageous collection of essays presents an articulate and passionate challenge to the repressive state apparatuses such as schools that professionally administer homophobia and reproduce state-sponsored heterosexism. Will Letts, Jim Sears and their contributors have provided educators with compelling arguments supporting gay and lesbian perspectives, multiculturalism, and gender and class equality. This volume marks the beginning of the queering of critical pedagogy and is long overdue.--Peter McLaren, Honorary Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Critical Studies, Northeast Normal University, China

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Non-Fiction Education Schools & Pre-Schools Primary Schools Philosophy & Theory of Education Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Sex & Sexuality: Advice & Issues Society & Culture Social Groups Gay & Lesbian Studies Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs

Teaching of Students with English as a Second Language TESOL Organisation & Management of Education Curriculum Planning & Development

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Matthew's Lullaby	p. xvii
Foundational Issues
Teaching Queerly: Some Elementary Propositions	p. 3
Why Discuss Sexuality in Elementary School?	p. 15
Pestalozzi, Perversity, and the Pedagogy of Love	p. 27
Children's Sexual and Social Development
Stonewall in the Housekeeping Area: Gay and Lesbian Issues in the Early Childhood Classroom	p. 39
Forbidden Fruit: Black Males' Constructions of Transgressive Sexualities in Middle School	p. 49
Reading Queer Asian American Masculinities and Sexualities in Elementary School	p. 61
"My Moving Days": A Child's Negotiation of Multiple Lifeworlds in Relation to Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality	p. 71
What Happens When the Kids Grow Up? The Long-Term Impact of an Openly Gay Teacher on Eight Students' Lives	p. 83
Curriculum
How to Make "Boys" and "Girls" in the Classroom: The Heteronormative Nature of Elementary-School Science	p. 97
Using Music to Teach against Homophobia	p. 111
Locating a Place for Gay and Lesbian Themes in Elementary Reading, Writing, and Talking	p. 125
"It's Okay to Be Gay": Interrupting Straight Thinking in the English Classroom	p. 137
How Teachers Understand Gay and Lesbian Content in the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum	p. 151
Family
Children of the Future Age: Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk about School	p. 165
Love Makes a Family: Controversy in Two Massachusetts Towns	p. 177
Supporting Students/Responding to Gay and Lesbian Parents	p. 183
Placing Children First: The Importance of Mutual Presence in the Elementary Classroom	p. 195
Educators and Their Allies
Activism Within: Working with Tension	p. 207
Success Stories of a Fat, Biracial/Black, Jewish, Lesbian Assistant Principal	p. 217
Lesbian Mother and Lesbian Educator: An Integrative View of Affirming Sexual Diversity	p. 225
When Queer and Teacher Meet	p. 237
Confronting Homophobia in a Multicultural Education Course	p. 247
Afterword	p. 257
Annotated Bibliography of Resources	p. 263
Index	p. 277
About the Contributors	p. 287
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