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Queer Pedagogy and the Limits of Thought: Teaching Sexualities at University
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Allen, Louisa – Higher Education Research and Development, 2015
What are the limits of queer pedagogy's thought [Britzman, D. (1995). Is there a queer pedagogy or stop reading straight. "Educational Theory," 45(2), 151-165]? This question is considered in relation to how queer pedagogy unfolds in a first-year university course entitled "Learning Sexualities." Examples of how queer pedagogy…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Theories, Sexuality, Homosexuality
Picturing Queer at School
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Allen, Louisa – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2015
This article is concerned with interrogating what has evolved as "normal" representations of the schooling experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in literature concerned with social/sexual justice. It argues that these representations necessitate understanding LGBT within a binary of either…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Educational Environment
Girls' Portraits of Desire: Picturing a Missing Discourse
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Allen, Louisa – Gender and Education, 2013
This paper revisits the missing discourse of female desire [Fine, M. 1988. Sexuality, schooling and adolescent females: The missing discourse of desire. "Harvard Educational Review" 58, no. 1: 29-53] in secondary schools. Instead of echoing previous studies that have documented how female desire is missing, this research starts from the…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sexuality, Adolescents, Females