Dr. Harper Keenan
Our Many Selves
Keenan, H.B. & Krishnan, M. (In Press). Our Many Selves. Chapter 1 in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (2nd Ed.). Oxford University Press.
Keep yourself alive: Welcoming the next generation of queer and trans educators
Keenan, H.B. (In Press). Keep yourself alive: Welcoming the next generation of queer and trans educators. Bank Street Occasional Papers Series.
Drag pedagogy: The playful practice of queer imagination in early childhood
2021 in Curriculum Inquiry
In recent years, a programme for young children called Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) has risen to simultaneous popularity and controversy. This article, written collaboratively by an education scholar and a drag queen involved in organizing DQSH, contextualizes the programme within the landscape of gender in education.
The Trans Educators Network: A reflection on community building and knowledge production
2019 in Teaching Education
This article describes the founding and first three years of a US-based organization for trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming educators working in PK-12 educational settings
Can policies help schools affirm gender diversity? A policy archaeology of transgender-inclusive policies in California schools
2018 in Gender and Education
The analysis presented here aims to trouble the normalizing categories of the gender binary that get reified in these policies and offers additional ways to create schools that are more affirming and supportive of all forms of gender diversity.
Unscripting curriculum: Toward a critical trans pedagogy
2017 in Harvard Educational Review
n this essay, Harper B. Keenan draws on his own experience as a white queer and trans educator to consider the meaning of a critical trans pedagogy. Amid dissonant narratives of equal rights and subjection, he explores how his classroom teaching is shaped by his own experience of gender conditioning as well as by the contemporary political climate surrounding trans identity.
Khaki drag: Race, gender, and the performance of professionalism in teacher education
2017 in Confronting Racism in Teacher Education
Keenan, H.B. (2017). Khaki drag: Race, gender, and the performance of professionalism in teacher education. (see excerpt at link) In Picower, B. & Kohli, R. (Eds.), Confronting Racism in Teacher Education. New York: Routledge.
Dr. Mary Bryson
Can we play ‘Fun Gay’?: Disjuncture and difference, and the precarious mobilities of millennial queer youth narratives
2010 in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
This article takes up the complex project of unthinking neoliberal accounts of a progressive modernity. The authors position their anxieties about an ‘after’ to queer as an affect modality productive of both an opportunity and an obligation to think critically…
Dr. Lori MacIntosh
Does anyone have a band-aid? Anti-homophobia discourses and pedagogical impossibilities
2007 in Educational Studies
This article focuses on the effectiveness of antihomophobia discourses and explores the process of teaching and learning about heteronormativity.
Virtually queer: Youth, MySpace, and the interstitial spaces of becoming and belonging
2008 in Journal of LGBT Youth
This essay provides a queer reading of MySpace. The analysis engages how this hugely popular youth site, as exemplar of online peer-to-peer networking, might provide educators and researchers with an ideal location for asking good questions about queer relationalities…
Gay-straight alliances: From frontline to bottom line
2007 in Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
In recent years, the status of the gay–straight alliance (GSA) in many schools has shifted from a space of fighting for the right to exist to one of institutional support and celebration. In many urban North American school districts, the presence of a GSA can all but be assumed.
Queering citizenship. In Richardson, G and R. Fountain (Eds)
2006 in Troubling the canon of citizenship education edited by George H. Richardson and David W. Blades
The discourse of civic education privileges liberal democratic understandings of citizenship. Yet we know that such understandings do not accurately represent the complex, plural, and problematic nature of citizenship in contemporary society.
Dr. Lisa Loutzenheiser
Sexuality education in action: The pedagogical possibilities at a youth camp
2018 in Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education and Young People edited by Fida Sanjakdar and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip
This chapter discusses how sexuality education at a camp for lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender, and Two Spirit (LGBQ and TT) youth works in combination with camp structures and goals to create an experience uniquely enriching…
Why youth? Why queer, transgender and genderqueer youth? Critical concepts in queer studies and education
2016 in Critical Concepts in Queer Studies and Education
This book advances a broad constellation of critical concepts situated within the field of queer studies and education. Presents an accessible approach to cross-disciplinary scholarship on queer studies and education.
‘Who are you calling a problem?’: Addressing transphobia and homophobia through school policy
2015 in Critical Studies in Education
This article offers a detailed analysis of two school board-level policies in BC, Canada that address the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender, Two Spirit (LGBQ and TT) youth to demonstrate how the language of the policy holds meaning and re/produces particular knowledges.
The Language of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality and Youth Experiences in Schools
2014 in The Social Studies Curriculum
Overview of issues teachers face when creating learning experiences for students in social studies. The chapter connects the diverse elements of t The Language of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality and Youth Experiences in Schools.
Can we learn queerly? Normativity and social justice pedagogies
2010 in Social Justice Pedagogy Across the Curriculum
What knowledge and tools do pre- and in-service educators need to teach for and about social justice across the curriculum in K-12 classrooms? Chapter 7 tell us about Queer Theories and Social Justice Pedagogies
Safe schools, sexuality and critical education
2009 in The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education
The production of knowledge occurring within classroom spaces, as well as the lapses and inclusions of gender and sexuality in teaching and learning, demands thoroughgoing and complicated analyses.
Dr. Dónal O’Donoghue
Framing “Boys’ Art Education” through an intercultural lens
2016 in International Handbook on Intercultural Arts Research
This chapter is intended as an inquiry into the concept of “Boys’ Art Education.” It suggests that this concept ought to be welcomed for the types of thinking it activates, demands and makes possible, while, at the same time, resisted for its anti-intellectual impulses.
Dr. Kedrick James
Mapping Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Inclusion
2019 in Canadian Journal of Education
Through a faculty-wide program enhancement campaign implemented in a British Columbia university, we investigated sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) awareness and inclusion in a Canadian teacher education program
Dr. Claudia W. Ruitenberg
Queer politics in schools: A Rancièrean reading
2010 in Educational Philosophy and Theory
The perceptibility and intelligibility of queer students and teachers have been a central theme in queer politics in education. Can queer teachers be ‘out’ to their colleagues and students?
Dr. Annette Henry
What folks don’t get: How race, class and gender matter
2021 in Colour Matters Edited by Carl E. James
The essays reflect the issues and concerns of the past thirty years, and question what has changed and what has remained the same. Each essay is accompanied by an insightful response from a scholar engaging with topics such as immigration, schooling, athletics, mentorship, and police surveillance.
Standing firm on uneven ground: A letter to Black women on academic leadership
2019 in African Canadian Leadership. Continuity, Transition and Transformation Edited by T. Kitossa, P. Howard & E. Lawson.
Challenging the myth of African Canadian leadership “in crisis,” this book opens a broad vista of inquiry into the many and dynamic ways leadership practices occur in Black Canadian communities. Exploring topics including Black women’s contributions to African Canadian communities, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black LGBTQ, HIV/AIDS advocacy…
An experiment that worked: Lesson from an inner-city school in Chicago
2016 in Caribbean Journal of Education
In this keynote address, the author shared a case study of an inner‐city girls’ school in Chicago. She discussed the school and community initiatives established to ensure academic, social, and emotional success. With their new model of assessment and academic supports, the school boasts a 100 percent graduation rate.
“We especially welcome applications from visible minorities”: Reflections on race, gender and life at three universities
2015 in Race, Ethnicity and Education
This autoethnographic account documents and analyses university life as a racialised woman who has worked in both Canadian and American universities. The theoretical framework draws from critical perspectives on race, black feminisms and narrative and autoethnographic research methodologies.