This book takes us on a fascinating journey across various countries, shedding light on queer perspectives in education. It engages with the potential of queer as a critical approach to foster just and ethical relations in education. Each chapter in the book provides direction for further possibilities and alternate ways of imagining education for a queer-to-come future. It is essential reading for academics and students working to end heteropatriarchal dominance and oppression and provides fresh insights for this endeavor.
Deevia Bhana, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Advocates and activists focused on inclusion and accommodation of sexual and gender differences in schooling, teacher education, and other educational domains will find this eclectic edited book useful to build knowledge and understanding of queer and trans identities and issues in racial and other intersections and in global contexts. In doing so, this book places student integrity and agency at the heart of education.
André P. Grace, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Queer Studies and Education: An International Reader showcases the rich pathways through which queer studies in education is currently travelling - regionally, theoretically, and practically. The collection is deliberately future oriented; readers who engage this text will be inspired to take queer studies elsewhere. It will stimulate thinking and debate among undergraduates and postgraduate students across diverse disciplines and country contexts.
Mary Lou Rasmussen, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Melding queer with education, this collection of essays unsettles heteronormative assumptions in education, addresses racism and racialization processes within institutions, and presents limitations in queer pedagogy. This reader underscores the need to examine queerness and education continuously in an era where neoliberal regimes, homophobia and queer visibility collide, pointing to a critical assessment of pedagogical practices and curriculum, queer or not. Queer Studies and Education is a must-read book and an urgent theoretical intervention that is international in scope, global in reach and timely in its subject matter.
Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong