Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools: The Work of the No Outsiders Project - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1858564581 ISBN 13: 9781858564586

Casa editrice: Trentham Books Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

The No Outsiders team, a collaboration of primary education practitioners and university researchers, has taken groundbreaking steps in addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in primary schools. DePalma and Atkinson and their colleagues from the ESRC-funded No Outsiders research team explore and analyze central issues which permeate the team's challenge to gender conformity through primary education.

The need for primary teachers and other professionals working with children to address equality in relation to sexual orientation and gender expression is becoming increasingly urgent in the light of recent changes in UK legislation. The Civil Partnership Act (2006), the Equality Act (2007) and new legislative requirements for ensuring the active promotion of child wellbeing, gender equality and community cohesion all place demands which schools and support services are ill-equipped to meet. This book fills a gap by examining how we might go about addressing these demands.

Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools brings together the wide-ranging expertise of the project's large research team, plus a chapter by Susan Talburt. It explores key themes related to the project's work: silence and speaking out; faith and culture; leadership and role-modelling; personal and emotional investment; gay rights/liberal humanist and queer perspectives; safety and risk-taking; the possibility of a queer pedagogy; and intersections between queer theory and practice.

This academic companion to the team's practice-focused book drawing on the project teachers' classroom work, Undoing Homophobia in Primary Schools, will be essential reading for all those in primary education who are concerned to challenge this last bastion of inequality, as well as for students and researchers in sociology, cultural studies, queer studies and related fields where the underlying discourses shaping heteronormativity and gender conformity require urgent analysis in the move towards a fairer society.

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Recensione

Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools is an exciting and controversial contribution to the existing literature on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in education... Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools succeeds in highlighting the importance of sexualities education as a tool to underpin any work with children to address homophobia. It provides an excellent and long overdue reference point for governors, teachers and other members of the primary school community planning initiatives to tackle inequality and promote diversity.Overall, Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools presents a crucial new perspective into how educators can most effectively challenge homophobia in primary schools. --Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 10:1, 109-111,

Contenuti

CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. Putting queer into practice: Problems and possibilities; 2. Seeking a queer(ing) pedagogic praxis: Adventures in the classroom and participatory action research; 3. Lessons in praxis: Thinking about knowledge, subjectivity and politics in education; 4. 'Vanilla' strategies: Compromise or collusion; 5. Speaking the unspeakable in forbidden places: Addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the primary school; 6. Toys, pleasures and the future; 7. Bodies and minds: Essentialism, activism and strategic disruptions in the primary school and beyond; 8. A democratic community of practice: Unpicking all those words; 9. No Outsiders: Exploring transformations at the intersections of communities of practice; Note on contributors; Acknowledgements; References; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Trentham Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1858564581
• ISBN 13: 9781858564586
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 173
• Redattore: Depalma Renee, Atkinson Elizabeth
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile