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Addressing LGBTQ-Themed Texts and Heteronormativity in English Education

Innovations in English Language Arts Teacher Education

ISBN: 978-1-78714-051-6, eISBN: 978-1-78714-050-9

Publication date: 23 January 2017

Abstract

English teacher candidates have limited opportunities to examine classroom-based discussions about LGBTQ-themed texts and heteronormativity in teacher education courses. This chapter presents one effort to address this issue using a video-based field experience in the English Methods course that demonstrated a critical unit of instruction about the play, Angels in America. The chapter provides a description of the project and English teacher candidates’ perspectives about what they learned for English educators interested in devising similar projects for their courses.

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Schieble, M. and Polleck, J. (2017), "Addressing LGBTQ-Themed Texts and Heteronormativity in English Education", Innovations in English Language Arts Teacher Education (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 27), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720170000027009

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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