Queering Elementary Education
Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. It's not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness. Queer elementary classrooms are those where parents and educators care enough about their children to trust the human capacity for understanding...
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Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and thoughtful essays advocate the creation of classrooms that challenge categorical thinking, promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical consciousness.
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsMatthew's LullabyPt. 1Foundational Issues1Teaching Queerly: Some Elementary Propositions32Why Discuss Sexuality in Elementary School?153Pestalozzi, Perversity, and the Pedagogy of Love27Pt. 2Children's Sexual and Social Development4Stonewall in the Housekeeping Area: Gay and Lesbian Issues in the Early Childhood Classroom395Forbidden Fruit: Black Males' Constructions of Transgressive Sexualities in Middle School496Reading Queer Asian American Masculinities and Sexualities in Elementary School617"My Moving Days": A Child's Negotiation of Multiple Lifeworlds in Relation to Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality718What Happens When the Kids Grow Up? The Long-Term Impact of an Openly Gay Teacher on Eight Students' Lives83Pt. 3Curriculum9How to Make "Boys" and "Girls" in the Classroom: The Heteronormative Nature of Elementary-School Science9710Using Music to Teach against Homophobia11111Locating a Place for Gay and Lesbian Themes in Elementary Reading, Writing, and Talking12512"It's Okay to Be Gay": Interrupting Straight Thinking in the English Classroom13713How Teachers Understand Gay and Lesbian Content in the Elementary Social Studies Curriculum151Pt. 4Family14Children of the Future Age: Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk about School16515Love Makes a Family: Controversy in Two Massachusetts Towns17716Supporting Students/Responding to Gay and Lesbian Parents18317Placing Children First: The Importance of Mutual Presence in the Elementary Classroom195Pt. 5Educators and Their Allies18Activism Within: Working with Tension20719Success Stories of a Fat, Biracial/Black, Jewish, Lesbian Assistant Principal21720Lesbian Mother and Lesbian Educator: An Integrative View of Affirming Sexual Diversity22521When Queer and Teacher Meet23722Confronting Homophobia in a Multicultural Education Course247Afterword257Annotated Bibliography of Resources263Index277About the Contributors287
\ CHOICEQueering Elementary Education is a must-read for all teachers and, perhaps more importantly, for preservice teachers. It is a smart, clearly written collection of essays exploring the complex interactions of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation. . . . Begins to map out some solutions to the homophobia in American schools.\ — M. J. Carbone, Muhlenberg College\ \ \ \ \ Gay TodayProbably no other title in the pantheon of liberationists literature will evoke more controversy than Queering Elementary Education.\ Queering Elementary Education is the first carefully constructed work written for educators who are ever on the front lines in the worldwide struggle to eliminate prejudices born of societal ignorance.\ This extraordinary book was conceived in the summer of 1997 when its editors envisioned what one of them, William J. Letts, IV called: 'a project that would take into account the lifeworlds of children, their families, their teachers, and their schools.'\ — Jack Nichols\ \ \
