Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational Practice
Cris Mayo, "Queer, Trans, and Intersectional Theory in Educational Practice "
English | ISBN: 0367418363 | 2019 | 220 pages | PDF | 1116 KB
English | ISBN: 0367418363 | 2019 | 220 pages | PDF | 1116 KB
Offering an examination of educational approaches to promote justice, this volume demonstrates the necessity for keeping race, ethnicity, class, language, and other diversities at the core of pedagogical strategies and theories that address queer, trans, gender nonbinary and related issues.
Queer theory, trans theory, and intersectional theory have all sought to describe, create, and foster a sense of complex subjectivity and community, insisting on relationality and complexity as concepts and communities shift and change. Each theory has addressed exclusions from dominant practices and encouraged a sense of connection across struggles. This collection brings these crucial theories together to inform pedagogies across a wide array of contexts of formal education and community-based educational settings. Seeking to push at the edges of how we teach and learn across subjectivities and communities, authors in this volume show that theories inform practice and practice informs theory―but this takes careful attention, reflexivity, and commitment.
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