Part of a larger yearlong ethnography at a comprehensive, public high school in a Midwestern city in the United States, this article explores a telling case from a bookclub that was part of the school's Genders and Sexualities Alliance. Approaching curriculum as a question of what knowledges are valued in education, in this article I describe the…

Recent education policies and laws such as a new rule to "Title IX" by the U.S. Department of Education (2020) and the "Parental Rights in Education" (HB 1557, 2022) also known as the "Don't Say Gay" law in Florida have important implications for how educational leaders are expected to address issues of gender,…

This manuscript examines the ways that a Queer Chicana teacher's multiple identities and perceptions of race, gender, and sexuality shape her efforts to disrupt colonial models of education in the United States. Through a self-narrativization research design, the authors explore three essential dimensions of educational expectations…

Critically reflecting on a "pedagogy of tenderness", this essay delineates how to build a liberative community of learning in the undergraduate classroom of sexual ethics. The learning community aims to help students understand religion's complex roles in shaping sexual ethics in society, challenge heteropatriarchal sexual ethics through…

Higher education research often defines success as retention and graduation, yet for many marginalized student populations who are the first in their family to attend college, many other identities, and experiences factor into this notion of success. For Chicana/Latina first-generation college students, their cultural backgrounds, multiple social…

Little attention has been given to principles of Buddhist moral conduct in the West. There are ten virtuous actions of Buddhist moral conduct, called the Ten Virtuous Deeds of the Bodhisattvas. Drawing from the works of contemporary women thinkers and artists, this article considers how the beauty of human nature and spirituality can be cultivated…

In this article, the author argues that teaching toward a new political economy requires educators and instructors to cultivate classroom climates rooted in Black queer and feminist (BQF) ethics of love and care. In doing so, teachers are better positioned to guide students as they tackle challenging conversations concerning systemic inequity,…

Since the enforcement of Law 26,150 (Congreso de la Nación Argentina 2006) through which a national programme on comprehensive sexual education (CSE) was created, the Argentinian educational system must include perspectives, contents, and discursive practices around CSE across the curriculum in kindergarten, primary, secondary, and initial teacher…

At an embodied and personal level this paper plays with what Evans, J., & Davies, B. (2011. New directions, new questions? Social theory, education and embodiment. "Sport, Education & Society," 16(3), 263-278) suggests are 'the complexity and nuances of biology in culture and the influence of body pedagogies in the production of…

The University of Oregon Teacher Education Program (UOTeach) was created in response to local grassroots protests that forced the University to create new courses and degrees with an emphasis on promoting equity, diversity, and justice in schools. This case study examines the way institutional support was made more readily available for changes…

This research study was an emergent qualitative inquiry into machismo, patriarchy, and sexuality in Cuba. The purpose of this study was to identify how machismo continues to manifest in Cuban society and to identify organizational approaches that are working to address machismo and sexuality in Cuba. Ethnographic in nature, this study employed two…

Teachers want to do their best for every child, but worry about causing offence and often shy away from troublesome issues. The classroom situations and strategies presented here will help teachers negotiate their way through complex situations and bring about constructive change. This book clarifies concepts and value differences and the subtle…

How might Life Skills be conceptualised in the Foundation Phase of schooling when a tradition of feminist literature has revealed the regulation, denial and the silencing of both gender and sexuality in early childhood? This article presents one Grade 2 teacher's perspective of addressing sexuality education in an impoverished township primary…

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 paper explores some of the less visible ways in which sex and gender categories are constructed in US…

"The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know" is designed to offer both practical and theoretical grounding for leaders and teachers interested in effectively addressing racism as well as other oppressive constructs. The dissertation offers an overview of the role of western culture in maintaining…