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Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book by the Michigan Council Teachers of English
Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
Winner of the 2017 AERA Division K (Teaching and Teacher Education) Exemplary Research Award
This book draws upon a queer literacy framework to map out examples for teaching literacy across pre-K-12 schooling. To date, there are no comprehensive Pre-K-12 texts for literacy teacher educators and theorists to use to show successful models of how practicing classroom teachers affirm differential (a)gender bodied realities across curriculum and schooling practices. This book aims to highlight how these enactments can be made readily conscious to teachers as a reminder that gender normativity has established violent and unstable social and educational climates for the millennial generation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, (a)gender/(a)sexual, gender creative, and question
Trade ReviewSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
“This timely book is a splendid addition to the literature aimed at informing and guiding educators in supporting trans* individuals … . The editor … has gathered a talented group of knowledgeable contributors who collectively provide a rich mix of theory and practice. … the book would be of great benefit within any teacher education program, especially now when trans* rights and safety are under fire in so many quarters.” (H. M. Miller, Choice, Vol. 55 (5), January, 2018)
“This edited collection is a great resource for pre-service and in-service teachers, as well as teacher educators and community activists that work with youth. … the authors also do a good job at addressing possible scenarios and providing concrete implications for practitioners making it an important and novel contribution to the field of LGBT youth studies.” (Mario I. Suárez, Journal of LGBT Youth, Vol. 15, February, 2018)
Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today's Schooling Practices3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Limits of Binary Language in Elementary Education Through Poetry, Word Art, and Creative Bookmarking6. The Teacher as a Text: Un-centering Normative Gender Identities in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom7. The T* in LGBT*: Disrupting Gender Normative School Culture Through Young Adult Literature8. Risks and Resiliency: Trans* Students in the Rural South9. Introducing (A)gender into Foreign/Second Language Education10. Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom11. Transitional Memories: Reading Using a Queer Cultural Capital Model12. Trans* Young Adult Literature for Secondary English Classrooms: Authors Speak Out13. Puncturing the Silence: Teaching The Laramie Project in the Secondary English Classroom14. Making Space for Unsanctioned Texts: Teachers and Students Collaborate to Trans*form Writing Assignments15. Using Queer Pedagogy and Theory to Teach Shakespeare's Twelfth Night16. The Nonconclusion: Trans*ing Education in the Future- This Cannot Wait
