Compulsory heterosexuality in a university classroom

ID:	HARP-192
Title:	Compulsory heterosexuality in a university classroom
Source:	Canadian Journal of Education , v.18(3) Summer, 1993 pg 273-284
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Year:	1993
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, human rights, non-discrimination, civil and political rights, education, heterosexuality/heterosexualism, minority rights, freedom of thought
Abstract:	This article tells what happened when I took a step toward challenging compulsory heterosexuality with prospective health education teachers, by incorporating critique of heterosexism and heterosexual privilege into an undergraduate course in teacher education at a Maritime university. I describe how an approach intended to counter inherent heterosexism in school curricula came face to face with the social relations of the classroom, the beliefs of prospective teachers, and prospective teachers’ understandings of the organization of teachers’ work. I question the possibility of liberatory pedagogy in teacher education, and ultimately in schooling, when, prospective teachers are establishing their own identities and are concerned about job security.
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