“Education is a fearful enterprise,” says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/process-oriented pedagogy asks teachers to step out from behind the relative safety of the teacher mask and to enter the risky arena of learning. For the writing teacher, a special challenge is to help students negotiate the risks inherent in the act of writing and in sharing writing with the “Other.” To prevent fears from dominating our students, teachers must model risk-taking and risk negotiation. In my own teaching, my fears around students\u27 reactions to learning my sexual identity meant that I more often reinforced fears than dispelled them or demonstrated to my students how to negotiate them
This research project focused on the perceptions and experiences of queer teachers working within se...
This study examines how preservice teachers reflect upon queer pedagogy in relation to their future ...
For gays and lesbians, "coming out" of the closet--identifying themselves as "gay"--at their place o...
“Education is a fearful enterprise,” says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/p...
Education is a fearful enterprise, says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/ p...
In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper. The use of the S word among stu...
Although a relationship exists between risk and empowerment in the composition classroom, little has...
Comparative Studies, enrolled in a class taught by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, an Associate Professor of Histo...
Writers’ identities matter: influenced by personal histories and experiences, our identities as writ...
Schools consistently prove to be unwelcoming environments for queer students. Queer issues and ident...
We are all at our most effective when we can be ourselves at work, but more than half of LGBT teache...
Heteronormativity, the “privileging of heterosexuality through its normalization” (Jackson, 2006, p....
Research on the school experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students suggest...
This article highlights the complexity of LGBT teacher identities in UK educational contexts. The ar...
As two literacy teacher educators, we strive to model practices for teachers and teacher candidates....
This research project focused on the perceptions and experiences of queer teachers working within se...
This study examines how preservice teachers reflect upon queer pedagogy in relation to their future ...
For gays and lesbians, "coming out" of the closet--identifying themselves as "gay"--at their place o...
“Education is a fearful enterprise,” says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/p...
Education is a fearful enterprise, says teacher and philosopher, Parker Palmer. Student-centered/ p...
In lieu of an abstract, below is the first paragraph of the paper. The use of the S word among stu...
Although a relationship exists between risk and empowerment in the composition classroom, little has...
Comparative Studies, enrolled in a class taught by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, an Associate Professor of Histo...
Writers’ identities matter: influenced by personal histories and experiences, our identities as writ...
Schools consistently prove to be unwelcoming environments for queer students. Queer issues and ident...
We are all at our most effective when we can be ourselves at work, but more than half of LGBT teache...
Heteronormativity, the “privileging of heterosexuality through its normalization” (Jackson, 2006, p....
Research on the school experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students suggest...
This article highlights the complexity of LGBT teacher identities in UK educational contexts. The ar...
As two literacy teacher educators, we strive to model practices for teachers and teacher candidates....
This research project focused on the perceptions and experiences of queer teachers working within se...
This study examines how preservice teachers reflect upon queer pedagogy in relation to their future ...
For gays and lesbians, "coming out" of the closet--identifying themselves as "gay"--at their place o...