期刊名称：Canadian Online Journal of Queer Studies in Education
印刷版ISSN：1710-7598
电子版ISSN：1710-7598
出版年度：2004
卷号：1
期号：01
出版社：University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
摘要：This paper describes the creation, curriculum and pedagogy of a postgraduate course on difference issues in education. Courses on queer pedagogies and feminist education were combined into a new course that examined frameworks for difference and diversity across issues of gender / sexualities/ cultures /ethnicities and disability. There was debate about using the word queer in the title. Some students had doubts about the inclusion of sexuality in a diversity course. A queering of dominant cultural perspectives on diversity was done by organising the course around disrupting dualisms, with homage to feminist and Foucauldian critiques of normalization. Common strategies in the struggles for rights were highlighted. Rather than focus on identity politics, intersections of group membership were emphasised in reader-positioning exercises. My reflections are supplemented with comments from students who responded to an e-mail questionnaire. At the end of the paper, questions are raised about unforeseen, contradictory effects of the focus on difference. Launching the course from multiple, mutable starting-points might take its project further in future.
