Queer Social Movements and Outreach Work in Schools: A Global Perspective

By Dennis A Francis

Book Overview

1. Introduction: The synergistic potential of the outreach work and activism of queer social movements and schools2. Educational Outreach Work in Nordic Countries: Challenges, Tensions and Contradictions for Queering Schools and Teaching about Sexual and Gender Diversity3. Embodying responsibility? Understanding educators' engagement in queer educational justice work in schools4. Challenges to LGBTQI inclusive education and queer activism in Taiwan5. The Sexual Diversity Pastoral Care Group and the Catholic Schools in Chile: An attempt to confront heteronormativity in school spaces6. Education as activism: Sexual dissidence and schooling in Spain7. Queer activism and non-formal outreach work in Iran: Creating a community of support and learning8. Queer Intersectional outreach actions to prevent LGBTQ+ prejudice and discrimination in schools: the Brazilian context and analysis of a local experience9. We're here, we're queer... but are we in schools? Lessons learned from a multicountry project across Eastern and Southern Africa10. "I'm queer and that's ok" Sharing autobiographical stories as a key method of queer activism in Austrian schools11. "I decided to teach... despite the anger" using Forum Theatre to connect queer activists, teachers and school leaders to address heterosexism in schools12. Intersex and education: What can schools and queer school projects learn from current discourses on intersex in Austria13. Conclusions: Queering 'Politics of Pain' through activism and educational outreach work

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030416097
• ISBN13: 9783030416096
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"