The Sweet Potato Podcast

S1E6: LGBTQ+ Conversations in Education ft. Lucia


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Hello my little sweet potatoes! In the first year of my masters, I wrote a paper and lectured on the importance of teachers discussing LGBTQ+ topics in their classrooms to create safer spaces for students. Given the it is PRIDE, I thought that it would be something worth revisiting. You will also get to meet Lucia - a dear friend of mine who (as she puts it) put and (s) in front of the (he). Be sure to follow her on Instagram @nameislucia 

Interested in some of the studies/resources I used? Links included in these show notes! 

Britzman, D. P. (2000). Teacher education in the confusion of our times. Journal of  Teacher Education, 51(3), 200-205.

Flores, G. (2014). Teachers working cooperatively with parents and caregivers when  implementing LGBT themes in the elementary classroom. American Journal of  Sexuality Education, 9(1), 114-120. doi:10.1080/15546128.2014.883268

GLSEN. (2013). Improving Education, Creating a Better World. Retrieved from  https://www.glsen.org/learn/about-glsen

Gregory, M. R. (2014). The procedurally directive approach to teaching controversial  issues. Educational Theory, 64(6), 627-648. doi:10.1111/edth.12087

Marchman, B. K. (2002). Teaching About Homophobia in a High School Civics Course.  Theory & Research in Social Education, 30(2), 302-305.  doi:10.1080/00933104.2002.10473197

Maxwell, B., McDonough, K., Waddington, D., Broaching the subject: Developing law- based principles for teacher free speech in the classroom. Teaching and Teacher  Education. 70:196-203.

National Center for Lesbian Rights. (2004). Harassment and discrimination: A legal  overview. San Francisco, CA: Author. Retrieved from http://nelrights.  org/publications/pubs/ha-legaloverview0104.pdf

Renn, K. (2010). LGBT and queer research in higher education: The state and status of  the field. Educational Researcher, 39(2), 132–141.

Snapp, S. D., Burdge, H., Licona, A. C., Moody, R. L., & Russell, S. T. (2015). Students’  perspectives on LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum. Equity & Excellence in Education,  48(2), 249-265. doi:10.1080/10665684.2015.1025614

UW-Oshkosh LGBTQ Resource Center. (2014, September 10). Creating an LGBTQ+  Inclusive Classroom. Retrieved from https://www.uwosh.edu/lgbtqcenter/faculty- staff/CreatingAnLGBTQInclusiveClassroom

Walton, D. The New Dialectic: Conversational Contexts of Argument (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1998).

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