Sexual Orientation and Teacher Identity: Professionalism and GLBT Politics in Teacher Preparation and Practice examines the nature of LGBTQ issues and teacher identity as social, cultural, and political constructs. In particular, the contributing authors to this collection of chapters present a collection of chapters (contemporary discourses) that will illuminate and critique the practices, structures, and politics in both teacher preparation programs and public school settings that affect LGBTQ teachers and their identity in relation to the struggles of teachers as professionals face in obtaining recognition. The contributing authors of the book focus on teachers are entering educational settings where difference connotes not equal, and discourses of LGBTQ politics, identity, and difference are interwoven with a realization of discrimination and marginalization. The authors, drawing on their personal and professional experiences, give much needed voice to recognition and the formation of identity from a LGBTQ viewpoint as they relate to teachers, teacher educators, and other cultural workers responsible for shaping professional identities of teachers and for teaching students in schools and classrooms across the nation.
Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1- Negotiating Identity as Teacher-A Critical Pedagogy of Learning to Teach Patrick M. Jenlink Chapter 2- Performativity and Disidentification: Subverting Identity Politics Through Stereotypical Embrace or Rejection Adam j. Greteman & Ira David Socol Chapter 3- LGBT Teacher Identity: Transgressing the Linear and Into the Spherical Identity Model Megan S. Kennedy Chapter 4- Understanding and Undermining Heteronormativity Heather Hickman Chapter 5- Shh . . . Out: From Silence to Self-How Experiences as Gay and Lesbian Teachers Inform Teaching Jana Jackson Chapter 6- Teachers as Sexual Strangers Steve Fifield Chapter 7- The Personal is Professional: Understanding Schools as Cultural Institutions through the Identities of Mother/Educator/Lesbian Laura A. Bower Chapter 8- Dismantling Straight Privilege: Alternate Conceptions of Identity and Education Tonette S. Rocco, Hilary Landorf, and Suzanne Gallagher Chapter 9- GLBT, Teacher Identity and the Pre-service Teacher Stephanie Lynn Daza Chapter 10- Epilogue: Sexual Orientation, Identity Politics, and Teaching: LGBTQ Teacher Identities (Re) considered Patrick M. Jenlink Editor and Authors
