Journal article
‘Effeminate arty boys and butch soccer girls’: investigating queer and trans-affirmative pedagogies under conditions of neoliberal governance
Research Papers in Education, Vol.34(2), pp.131-152
2017
Abstract
In this paper, we draw on conversations with two English teachers in an Australian government speciality arts focused school to investigate possibilities for envisaging trans-affirmative and queer pedagogies in the classroom. It draws from two studies that are concerned to investigate how gender and sexually diverse students are being supported in the education system. Our study employs queer and trans-informed epistemological insights into the pedagogical limits of heternormativity and cisgenderism in high schools. The data involved engaging with teachers who responded to a range of multi-literacy resources that addressed the politics of queer and trans representation, recognition and visibility in their classrooms. We tease out several themes which pertain to the institutionalisation of heteronormativity and cisgenderism, and how it is entwined with neoliberal governance in one particular case study school. Our purpose is to illustrate how this gender and sexuality politics works in tandem with a particular manifestation of neoliberal governance in the public education system, and plays into a specific policy discourse with particular consequences for schools, students and teachers in terms of impression management and its calculative and performative effects.
Details
- Title
- ‘Effeminate arty boys and butch soccer girls’: investigating queer and trans-affirmative pedagogies under conditions of neoliberal governance
- Authors/Creators
- W. Martino (Author/Creator)W. Cumming-Potvin (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Research Papers in Education, Vol.34(2), pp.131-152
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005543121807891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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