The Interruption of Heteronormativity in Higher Education: Critical Queer Pedagogies

ISBN-13: 9783030190880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 301 str.

Michael Seal

Opis

This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted. Located within the theoretical framework of queer and critical pedagogy and based on extensive empirical research, the author explores the dynamics of heteronormativity and its interruption on professional courses in a range of higher education institutions. Reactions to attempt to interrupt it were nuanced: while strategies of contested engagement, avoidance and retreat were expressed, heterosexualities were largely un-examined and un-articulated. 'Coming out' needs to be a pedagogical act, carried out concurrently with the interruptions of other social constructions and binary oppositions. The author calls for co-created and co-held meta-reflexive and liminal spaces that emphasise inter-subjectivity, encounters, and working in the moment. These spaces must de-construct and reconstruct pedagogical power and knowledge to promote collective intersubjective consciousnesses, and widen the vision of the reflective practitioner to that of the pedagogical practitioner. This pioneering book is a call to action to all those concerned with interrupting and problematising presumed binary categories of sexuality within the heterosexual matrix.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Heteronormativity and its interruptions in universities: 'to teach is to be watched'

SECTION I: Framework and context

Chapter 2. Heteronormativity in Higher Education: Terminology, Context and Empirical Work

Chapter 3. Pedagogic framework for interrupting heteronormativity

Chapter 4. Theoretical framework and key concepts

SECTION II. Dynamics of heteronormativity within educational settings

Chapter 5. A Case Study of Institutional Heteronormativity in Higher Education Institutions

Chapter 6. Dynamics of inter-subjective heteronormativity amongst students in higher education

Chapter 7. The absent majority? Constructions of heterosexuality within educational settings

Chapter 8. The present minority: Homonormativity within educational settings

SECTION III. Interrupting heteronormativity and constructing transgressive and transformative sexualities

Chapter 9. Coming out: the personal, the political and the pedagogic

Chapter 10. The coming out imperative: self-revelation as pedagogy

Chapter 11. Transgressive sexualities and public pedagogies

Chapter 12. A whole course intersectional team approach to interrupting heteronormativity

Chapter 13. Educating the Pedagogical Practitioner: The Liminal Spaces of a Queer and Critical Pedagogy

Chapter 14. Conclusion: Interrupting Heteronormativity in Higher Education—Next Steps

O autorze

Michael Seal is Reader in Critical Pedagogy at Newman University, UK.