Teaching Queer

Teaching Queer

by Waite

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Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher. Rather than positioning queerness as connected only to queer texts or queer teachers/students (as much work on queer pedagogy has done since the 1990s), this book offers writing and teaching as already queer practices, and co…

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  • Full title :Teaching Queer.

Summary

Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher. Rather than positioning queerness as connected only to queer texts or queer teachers/students (as much work on queer pedagogy has done since the 1990s), this book offers writing and teaching as already queer practices, and contends that the overlap between queer theory and composition presents new possibilities for teaching writing. Teaching Queer argues for and enacts "queer forms"--non-normative and category-resistant forms of writing--those that move between the critical and the creative, the theoretical and the practical, and the queer and the often invisible normative functions of classrooms.

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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 206 pages).).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0822982773, 9780822982777
  • oclc:on1097107920
  • LC Classification:PE1404

Table of Contents

Becoming the loon: queer masculinities, queer pedagogies -- Courting failure -- Alternative orientations -- Becoming liquid: queer interpretations -- Queer (re)visions of composition.

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Subjects

Création littéraire -- Étude et enseign… Creative writing -- Study and teaching English language -- Rhetoric Enseignants homosexuels -- États-Unis Gay students Gay students -- United States Gay teachers Gay teachers -- United States United States

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Waite

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