The Interruption of Heteronormativity in Higher Education
Critical Queer Pedagogies
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Beschreibung
This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted. Located within the theoretical framework of queer and critical pedagogy and based on extensive empirical research, the author explores the dynamics of heteronormativity and its interruption on professional courses in a range of higher education institutions. Reactions to attempt to interrupt it were nuanced: while strategies of contested engagement, avoidance and retreat were expressed, heterosexualities were largely un-examined and un-articulated. ‘Coming out’ needs to be a pedagogical act, carried out concurrently with the interruptions of other social constructions and binary oppositions. The author calls for co-created and co-held meta-reflexive and liminal spaces that emphasise inter-subjectivity, encounters, and working in the moment. These spaces must de-construct and reconstruct pedagogical power and knowledge to promote collective intersubjective consciousnesses, and widen the visionof the reflective practitioner to that of the pedagogical practitioner. This pioneering book is a call to action to all those concerned with interrupting and problematising presumed binary categories of sexuality within the heterosexual matrix.
Posits how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted Uses extensive qualitative data to explore the dynamics of heteronormativity and its interruption on professional courses Calls for co-created and co-held meta-reflexive and liminal spaces in higher education
Autor*in
Michael Seal
Themen in »The Interruption of Heteronormativity in Higher Education«
Critical Pedagogy Heteronormativity queer theory heteronormativity in higher education Queer pedagogy gender and sexuality