Sexual Orientation and Teacher Identity

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.

Edited by Patrick M. Jenlink

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