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Queering The Teacher As A Text In The English Language Arts Classroom: Beyond Books, Identity Work And Teacher Preparation, Kate E. Kedley
Queering The Teacher As A Text In The English Language Arts Classroom: Beyond Books, Identity Work And Teacher Preparation, Kate E. Kedley
College of Education Departmental Research
Classrooms reflect and contribute to normative sex, gender, and sexuality categories in school culture, rules, and rituals. Texts, materials, curriculum, and the discourse we employ as educators perpetuate the pervasiveness of these categories. This article explores the less visible ways sex and gender categories are constructed in English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, and how institutionalized heteronormativity positions students within normative categories of sex, gender, and sexuality. These limiting conversations are difficult to identify and even more difficult to challenge. But it is precisely this dynamic – the subconscious reinforcing of sex and gender binaries – that upholds the dominance of …