EDPS 515 - Sexual and Gender Minorities in Education and Culture

★ 3 (fi 6) (either term, 3-0-0) This course examines research and educational practices designed to make sexual and gender minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) identities, histories, voices, and cultures visible in mainstream K-12 education in North America. Students will learn how this research, teaching, and cultural work has sought to (1) interrogate hetero- and gender- normative relationships of power and identity formation, (2) engage queer pedagogy and processes of knowledge production, and (3) develop critical modes of inquiry to investigate the maintenance of the status quo in contemporary schooling.