The Intersectional Potential of Queer Theory: An Example from a General Education Course in English

Autor/in	Carlin, Deborah
Titel	The Intersectional Potential of Queer Theory: An Example from a General Education Course in English
Quelle	In: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, (2011) 125, S.55-64 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0633
DOI	10.1002/tl.433
Schlagwörter	College English; General Education; Homosexuality; Sexual Identity; Social Theories; Teaching Methods; Lecture Method; Courses; Student Attitudes; Gender Issues; Social Attitudes; Social Bias; College Students; Cultural Influences; Social Influences; Course Content; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Homosexualität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Gesellschaftstheorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Kursangebot; Schülerverhalten; Geschlechterfrage; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Collegestudent; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sozialer Einfluss; Kursprogramm; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	In this chapter, the author describes how a pedagogical approach utilizing insights and principles from queer theory facilitated an intersectional analysis in a large lecture, general education course on "Gender, Sexuality, Literature and Culture" at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her goal in using queer theory's deconstructive methodology was to disrupt and destabilize potentially predetermined student conceptions of gender and sexuality in ways that fostered intersectional analysis because "sexuality is always already intersecting with other vectors of identity and difference." As the evaluations indicate, college-age students (no doubt because of their own life-stage issues around independence and sexual identity) were intrigued by the course material and open to explorations of gender and sexuality as they were expressed in different cultural, national, familial, religious, class, and historical formulations. A queerly informed pedagogy offers the tools to deconstruct norms and to situate differences within multiple vectors of identity not restricted exclusively to gender and sexuality. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10