Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.003.0005
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter 5 considers how a thoughtful orientation to the problem of sexuality in education can guide the kind of welcome we offer to LGBTQ students, teachers and families in schools.
Chapter 5 considers how a thoughtful orientation to the problem of sexuality in education can guide the kind of welcome we offer to LGBTQ students, teachers and families in schools.
Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.003.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter 1 works with two contemporary court cases to explore what happens when the equality-seeking claims of LGBTQ adults rest on an inaugurating story of queer childhood, neglecting children whose ...
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Chapter 1 works with two contemporary court cases to explore what happens when the equality-seeking claims of LGBTQ adults rest on an inaugurating story of queer childhood, neglecting children whose sexualities may or may not be legibly queer.Less
Chapter 1 works with two contemporary court cases to explore what happens when the equality-seeking claims of LGBTQ adults rest on an inaugurating story of queer childhood, neglecting children whose sexualities may or may not be legibly queer.
Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is a study of the educational breakdowns, conflicts and controversies that emerge as sexuality circulates through the spaces and relations of schooling. I ...
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Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is a study of the educational breakdowns, conflicts and controversies that emerge as sexuality circulates through the spaces and relations of schooling. I focus specifically on LGBTQ issues and argue that welcoming LGBTQ students, families, teachers and issues into education requires us to rethink our theories of sexuality. Beginning with the contradiction that sexuality poses both a limit and an incitement to education, I turn to psychoanalysis and queer theory to ask: how does sexuality come to bear on teaching and learning? Since sexuality fuels the love, curiosity and aggression that make up our engagements with knowledge, there can be no education without it; and yet education, in its practices, rules and in the relations that comprise schooling, is threatened by the wildness of sexuality. While sexuality pushes education to its limit, education must attempt to limit sexuality. Opening each chapter with a moment of conflict drawn from contemporary public debates on the strange workings of sexuality in schools–from efforts to censor LGBTQ literature from elementary schools to concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth to debates about the content of sexuality education–I explore the charged emotional and theoretical terrain underscoring these concerns. Engaging representations from fiction, film, the news, and my own experiences of these conflicts in teacher education, Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is less interested in settling meaning on an impossible subject than in re-envisioning the grounds for thinking about sexuality and education.Less
Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is a study of the educational breakdowns, conflicts and controversies that emerge as sexuality circulates through the spaces and relations of schooling. I focus specifically on LGBTQ issues and argue that welcoming LGBTQ students, families, teachers and issues into education requires us to rethink our theories of sexuality. Beginning with the contradiction that sexuality poses both a limit and an incitement to education, I turn to psychoanalysis and queer theory to ask: how does sexuality come to bear on teaching and learning? Since sexuality fuels the love, curiosity and aggression that make up our engagements with knowledge, there can be no education without it; and yet education, in its practices, rules and in the relations that comprise schooling, is threatened by the wildness of sexuality. While sexuality pushes education to its limit, education must attempt to limit sexuality. Opening each chapter with a moment of conflict drawn from contemporary public debates on the strange workings of sexuality in schools–from efforts to censor LGBTQ literature from elementary schools to concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth to debates about the content of sexuality education–I explore the charged emotional and theoretical terrain underscoring these concerns. Engaging representations from fiction, film, the news, and my own experiences of these conflicts in teacher education, Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education is less interested in settling meaning on an impossible subject than in re-envisioning the grounds for thinking about sexuality and education.
Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter 3 explores the emotional terrain of the “good gay life” set out in the popular anti-bullying video project “It Gets Better,” which simultaneously sets the grounds of gay futurity and offers ...
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Chapter 3 explores the emotional terrain of the “good gay life” set out in the popular anti-bullying video project “It Gets Better,” which simultaneously sets the grounds of gay futurity and offers youth resources to construct their own life narratives.Less
Chapter 3 explores the emotional terrain of the “good gay life” set out in the popular anti-bullying video project “It Gets Better,” which simultaneously sets the grounds of gay futurity and offers youth resources to construct their own life narratives.
Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter 4 focuses on the ubiquity of prohibition in sex education, engaging psychoanalytic theories of negation and prohibition and taking as a case study the documentary film Desire.
Chapter 4 focuses on the ubiquity of prohibition in sex education, engaging psychoanalytic theories of negation and prohibition and taking as a case study the documentary film Desire.
Jen Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816686377
- eISBN:
- 9781452948959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816686377.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
Chapter 2 considers how “risk” separates the conflicts of adolescence from the achievement of adulthood. Working with a short story, I frame the decision to have safer sex as an emotional problem. ...
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Chapter 2 considers how “risk” separates the conflicts of adolescence from the achievement of adulthood. Working with a short story, I frame the decision to have safer sex as an emotional problem. Here psychoanalytic theories of development open the problem of sexuality education to the depths of affective life.Less
Chapter 2 considers how “risk” separates the conflicts of adolescence from the achievement of adulthood. Working with a short story, I frame the decision to have safer sex as an emotional problem. Here psychoanalytic theories of development open the problem of sexuality education to the depths of affective life.
