Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth : A Queer Literacy Framework / edited by sj Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, sj., Editor.

Series:

Queer Studies and Education, 2946-2282

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Sex.

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

Gender Studies.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Local Subjects:

Literacy.

Gender Studies.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXI, 323 p. 30 illus., 15 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

sj Miller is a trans*+disciplinary award-winning teacher/writer/activist/scholar and an expert in secondary literacy across disciplines. sj’s research is framed around trans*+disciplinary perspectives on social justice, which cut across theory, epistemology, and pedagogy and links across socio-spatial justice, Urban Education, preservice and inservice secondary language arts teacher dispositions, and marginalized/undervalued student literacies and identities with a particular emphasis on gender identity. sj has written nine books, over twenty-five book chapters, over fifty articles, and is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post, BBC Radio, CBS News, GLSEN, Vice, and PBS. In 2019, sj received the AERA Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award.

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition

2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today's Schooling Practices

3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development

4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz

5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Limits of Binary Language in Elementary Education Through Poetry, Word Art, and Creative Bookmarking

6. The Teacher as a Text: Un-centering Normative Gender Identities in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom

7. The T* in LGBT*: Disrupting Gender Normative School Culture Through Young Adult Literature

8. Risks and Resiliency: Trans* Students in the Rural South

9. Introducing (A)gender into Foreign/Second Language Education

10. Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom

11. Transitional Memories: Reading Using a Queer Cultural Capital Model

12. Trans* Young Adult Literature for Secondary English Classrooms: Authors Speak Out

13. Puncturing the Silence: Teaching The Laramie Project in the Secondary English Classroom

14. Making Space for Unsanctioned Texts: Teachers and Students Collaborate to Trans*form Writing Assignments

15. Using Queer Pedagogy and Theory to Teach Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

16. The Nonconclusion: Trans*ing Education in the Future- This Cannot Wait.-.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137567666

113756766X