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Our Voices Count: The Lived Experiences of LGBTQ Educators and Its Impact on Teacher Education Preparation Programs
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Dykes, Frank O.; Delport, John L. – Teaching Education, 2018
LGBTQ issues are often marginalized in teacher preparation programs. This marginalization perpetuates heternormative practices in schools. Utilizing the lens of narrative inquiry, this study examined the lives of 10 LGBTQ teachers residing in various geographical regions in the United States. Based on the theoretical framework of Queer Theory,…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Teacher Education Programs
Critical Considerations in Becoming Literacy Educators: Pre-Service Teachers Rehearsing Agency and Negotiating Risk
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Ticknor, Anne Swenson – Teaching Education, 2015
This article looks closely at the talk of two pre-service teachers over time to examine how they used language as a way of rehearsing their evolving agency as literacy educators. Drawing on critical sociocultural theory, I use Agency Tracing to highlight how pre-service teachers' agentic actions are not isolated phenomena but ones developed and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Reading Teachers, Teacher Education, Discourse Analysis
Examining the Heteropatriarchy: Canadian and American Male Teachers' Perspectives of Sexual Minority Curriculum
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Finnessy, Patrick – Teaching Education, 2016
This study was concerned with an examination of the heteropatriarchy as it was performed by six self-identified heterosexual male English teachers and two high school administrators in the United States and Canada. These educators explained their efforts regarding their own thinking about identity and curriculum and their attempts to teach a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Teacher Attitudes, Sexual Orientation
Playing the Game: A Bourdieuian Perspective of Pre-Service Inquiry Teaching
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Nolan, Kathleen; Walshaw, Margaret – Teaching Education, 2012
At the heart of contemporary teaching reform initiatives is a pedagogy based around inquiry. In this paper, we explore inquiry through the efforts of one pre-service teacher, Toni, during her practicum experience in a secondary mathematics classroom. We look at the ways in which she negotiates her practice amid intersecting stories of traditional…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Student Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Teaching about Queer Families: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Schooling of Sexualities
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Cumming-Potvin, Wendy; Martino, Wayne – Teaching Education, 2014
In this paper, we investigate primary school teachers' reflections on addressing the topic of same-sex families and relationships in their classrooms. Informed by queer theoretical and Foucauldian analytic approaches, we examine teachers' potential use of texts, such as picture storybooks, which introduce representations of same-sex relationships…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Homosexuality, Family Structure, Family Environment
(Re)Considering Normal: Queering Social Norms for Parents and Teachers
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Bower, Laura; Klecka, Cari – Teaching Education, 2009
Recent debates regarding same-sex marriage and gay and lesbian adoption highlight the role of schools as sociopolitical institutions. Accordingly, teachers operating within social norms have considerable influence through their interactions with students and their families. Previous research points to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Child Rearing, Sexual Orientation, Parent School Relationship