Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Foundational issues. Teaching queerly : some elementary proposals / James T. Sears -- Why discuss sexuality in elementary school? / Kathy Bickmore -- Pestalozzi, perversity, and the pedagogy of love / Lisa Weems. 2. Children's sexual and social development. Stonewall in the housekeeping area : gay and lesbian issues in the early childhood classroom / Betsy J. Cahill and Rachel Theilheimer -- Forbidden fruit : Black males' constructions of transgressive sexualities in middle school / James Earl Davis -- Reading queer Asian American masculinities and sexualities in elementary school / Kevin K. Kumashiro -- "My moving days" : a child's negotiation of multiple lifeworlds in relation to gender, ethnicity, and sexuality / Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli -- What happens when the kids grow up? : the long-term impact of an openly gay teacher on eight students' lives / Eric Rofes. 3. Curriculum. How to make "boys" and "girls" in the classroom : the heteronormative nature of elementary-school science / William J. Letts IV -- Using music to teach against homophobia / Mara Sapon-Shevin -- Locating a place for gay and lesbian themes in elementary reading, writing, and talking / James R. King and Jenifer Jasinski Schneider -- "It's okay to be gay" : interrupting straight thinking in the English classroom / Wayne Martino -- How teachers understand gay and lesbian content in the elementary social studies curriculum / Kevin P. Colleary.