Queer Contemplative Pedagogy: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Norms Through Contemplation
| Autor: | Stephanie Anne Shelton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Adolescent Social Psychology Contemplation Sexual Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Human sexuality Education Gender Studies Sexual and Gender Minorities Ethnography Pedagogy Humans Sociology Meditation Students General Psychology media_common Gender Identity General Medicine Queer pedagogy Queer Normative Female Sexuality Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Homosexuality. 69:2049-2065 |
| ISSN: | 1540-3602 0091-8369 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00918369.2021.1984789 |
| Popis: | While teaching a secondary gender studies course, high school teacher "Eleanor" found that though most students identified as queer and expressed interest in disrupting normative understandings of genders and sexualities, their classroom contributions often reified problematic norms. She implemented what she termed a Queer Contemplative Pedagogy to challenge students to think more contemplatively about genders and sexualities. Based on ethnographic classroom observations and individual interviews, this paper examines Eleanor's and the students' efforts to use meditation and contemplative writing to challenge a range of norms and personal assumptions. This study offers a rare pairing of contemplative practice with queer research and provides an instructional approach that pushes youth and educators to continue to examine assumptions and societal constructions related to genders and sexualities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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