Acting Out: Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism

Name: Acting Out: Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism
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ISBN: 9780807750315

ISBN-10: 080775031X

ISBN-13: 9780807750315

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mollie V. Blackburn, Lauren M. Kenney, Caroline T. Clark

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In this volume, teacher from urban, suburban, and rural districts join together in a teacher inquiry group to challenge homophobia and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning environments for all students they address key topics, including seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether to come out in the classroom, running a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing dsitrict policy to protect LBGTQ teachers and studens, dealing with resistant students, and preparing preservice teachers to do antihomophobia work.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 11/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments



Teacher/Activists Who Became Pink TIGers: An Introduction




Learning About Heterosexism as a Teacher Educator: The Resistant Student as Catalyst for Change




Inquiring into Ally Work in Teacher Education: The Possibilities and Limitations of Textual Practice




Being Out and Reading Queer-Inclusive Texts in a High School English Classroom




Risk and Threat in Critical Inquiry: Vacancies, Violations, and Vacuums




Activist Work as Entry-Year Teachers: What We've Learned




Facilitating Visibility of LGBTQ Issues in Public Schools: Teacher Resistance and Teachable Moments




Overcoming an Identity of Privilege to Support LGBTQ Inclusivity in School




Choosing to Stay "In" and the Significance of Race for Lesbian Teachers in Urban Classrooms




Learning to B/Se(e) an Activist Community: The Importance of Differences in Working for Change




Acting Out! So What?



Annotated Bibliography


About the Contributors


Index