ERIC Number: EJ1300896
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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Advancing a Critical Trans Framework for Education
Curriculum Inquiry, v51 n2 p261-286 2021
This article introduces a new theoretical framework comprised of three principles for teaching, learning, and researching gender in a way that celebrates gender diversity and centers transgender experiences and knowledge. The first principle describes how gender operates on multiple levels including individual, institutional, and socio-cultural. The second principle explores genderism as a system of oppression and delineates some of the ways genderism operates concurrently with all other systems of oppression, with racism and ableism provided as examples. The third principle asserts that transgender people's lived experiences, experiential trans knowledge, and counter-narratives must be at the center of transformative efforts in educational spaces. Based on these principles, the article offers suggestions for how people in various educational roles in K-12 and post-secondary education could implement this framework to create educational spaces that affirm and support people of all genders.
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Sexual Identity, Gender Bias, Social Bias, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Social Justice, Institutional Environment, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Racial Bias, Disabilities, Educational Environment, Experience, Knowledge Level, Research, Instruction, School Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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