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irina Schmitt

Irina Schmitt

Universitetslektor

irina Schmitt

Queering school, queers in school: An introduction

Författare

  • Irina Schmitt
  • Malena Gustavson
  • Anna Malmquist

Summary, in English

Queer studies of education and research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) kids, tightly connected to anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia and norm-critical activism, have become a growing field with a range of theoretical and political positions and methodological approaches. One of the key contentions within this field is what researchers and activists mean by “queer” in the context of education: is it a focus on queer/ed subjectivities? Is it about using queer theories to critique forms and norms of education in a given sociopolitical context? Who is queer/ed in schools? Is the language of homophobia and transphobia the best or even correct way to describe and analyse normative educational settings and frameworks?

In this issue of Confero, we highlight both ethnographic investigations of queer and queered kids in school and critical views of school’s policy making and normative frameworks. Queer education research is a rapidly growing area of study. Where researchers and activists insist on the entanglements between not least sexual, gendered and racialised structural formations, we also insist on our expectation that principal values in schools meet the increasing challenges from queer activism and research.

Avdelning/ar

  • Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Confero - Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics

Volym

1

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Linköping University Electronic Press

Ämne

  • Gender Studies

Nyckelord

  • school
  • education
  • queer
  • normcritical
  • feminist

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Homophobic Motivated Violence as Experience of Children growing up with Homosexual Parents in the Context of School

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2001-4562