Queering Social Justice Curricula within Higher Education

<p>Within higher education, social justice education has gained significant ground. While issues of gender, race, and class are increasingly addressed and incorporated into classes there remains a lack in inclusive curricula and pedagogies within colleges and universities when it comes to issues of gender and sexual identity. The social construction of gender and sexualities remains overlooked on the majority of college and university campuses, as well as the discrimination faced by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA) students unaddressed within curricula. The representation of the LGBTQIA community can be attended to within classrooms, campuses, and curriculums in many various way and at multiple levels of engagement. This project aims to fill the gap in social justice centered education within college curricula. It will provide resources that bring LGBTQIA issues and their intersectionality with race, class, gender, sex, ability, and citizenship into classrooms and core curricula in order to educate and facilitate discussions with students, faculty, and the educational community as a whole. The main objective of this project is to assist teachers in talking about issues of gender identity and sexualities and to provide guidelines and best practices of how to incorporate LGBTQIA issues into class lessons and discussions. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Human Rights Education (HRE)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

International and Multicultural Education (IME)

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Cabot, Kate P

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Monisha Bajaj

• Queering Education
• Queer Theory
• Social Justice
• LGBTQIA
• Critical Pedagogy
• Anti-oppression Education
• Queering Human Rights Educations
• Engaged Pedagogy
• Gender Identity
• Sexual Orientation
• Social Construction
• Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Curriculum and Social Inquiry
• Educational Leadership
• Higher Education and Teaching
• Other Teacher Education and Professional Development
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/112

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1116