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The Teacher Educator, 2010

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1999

Page 1. QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 1999, VOL. 12, NO. 3, 299±310 Multiculturalism : an `` ... more Page 1. QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 1999, VOL. 12, NO. 3, 299±310 Multiculturalism : an `` as if '' phenomenon ANA MARI;A GARCI;A Sociology & Anthropology, Beaver College, Glenside, PA 19038, USA Multiculturalism ...

Sex Education, 2009

This article reflects our experiences of raising boys with gender-variant behaviors and interests... more This article reflects our experiences of raising boys with gender-variant behaviors and interests. After a long personal and professional journey, living in a society that views children with gender-variant behavior and interests as aberrations that need to be examined, intervened with, or repackaged, we are moved to redirect our attention as academics, as women, and as mothers to the larger social processes that punish or reward particular forms of gender expression and gender identity. Using a feminist perspective, we offer a new conceptual lens with which to view these boys, not as an alternate or pathogenic form of masculinity, but rather as a healthy expression of a gender continuum. We challenge the views that construct gender as a binary system, that define masculinity as the repudiation of the feminine, and that encourage homophobia. In addition, we present the voices and experiences of parents, like ourselves, who are learning to ‘facilitate’ the expansive gender expression...

The Teacher Educator, 2010

This article is a critical examination of the ideologies and practices that educators bring to be... more This article is a critical examination of the ideologies and practices that educators bring to bear on their classrooms in order to create inclusive, safe, and welcoming environments for all children, but particularly for children with gender variant behaviors and interests. Using a feminist perspective, this article offers a new conceptual lens with which to examine classroom practices that reinforce the heteronormative classroom and, as such, restrict and constrain alternate forms of gender expression. We contend that children with gender variant behaviors and interests are not an alternate or pathogenic form of masculinity or femininity, but rather a healthy expression of a gender continuum. In order to support and nurture these expressions of gender, educators must be able to interrogate their own biases and how they manifest themselves in the language, processes, and expectations in and of their classrooms. In this way, they can create learning environments in which gender is a dynamic and elaborated phenomenon where boys and girls, men and women, are encouraged to express themselves fully. As such, this article presents ways of thinking, inquiring, and embracing pedagogical practices that dismiss the views of gender as a binary system, in place of facilitating the expression of gender interests and behaviors in the most expansive and fluid ways.

The Teacher Educator, 2010

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1999

Page 1. QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 1999, VOL. 12, NO. 3, 299±310 Multiculturalism : an `` ... more Page 1. QUALITATIVE STUDIES IN EDUCATION, 1999, VOL. 12, NO. 3, 299±310 Multiculturalism : an `` as if '' phenomenon ANA MARI;A GARCI;A Sociology & Anthropology, Beaver College, Glenside, PA 19038, USA Multiculturalism ...

Sex Education, 2009

This article reflects our experiences of raising boys with gender-variant behaviors and interests... more This article reflects our experiences of raising boys with gender-variant behaviors and interests. After a long personal and professional journey, living in a society that views children with gender-variant behavior and interests as aberrations that need to be examined, intervened with, or repackaged, we are moved to redirect our attention as academics, as women, and as mothers to the larger social processes that punish or reward particular forms of gender expression and gender identity. Using a feminist perspective, we offer a new conceptual lens with which to view these boys, not as an alternate or pathogenic form of masculinity, but rather as a healthy expression of a gender continuum. We challenge the views that construct gender as a binary system, that define masculinity as the repudiation of the feminine, and that encourage homophobia. In addition, we present the voices and experiences of parents, like ourselves, who are learning to ‘facilitate’ the expansive gender expression...

The Teacher Educator, 2010

This article is a critical examination of the ideologies and practices that educators bring to be... more This article is a critical examination of the ideologies and practices that educators bring to bear on their classrooms in order to create inclusive, safe, and welcoming environments for all children, but particularly for children with gender variant behaviors and interests. Using a feminist perspective, this article offers a new conceptual lens with which to examine classroom practices that reinforce the heteronormative classroom and, as such, restrict and constrain alternate forms of gender expression. We contend that children with gender variant behaviors and interests are not an alternate or pathogenic form of masculinity or femininity, but rather a healthy expression of a gender continuum. In order to support and nurture these expressions of gender, educators must be able to interrogate their own biases and how they manifest themselves in the language, processes, and expectations in and of their classrooms. In this way, they can create learning environments in which gender is a dynamic and elaborated phenomenon where boys and girls, men and women, are encouraged to express themselves fully. As such, this article presents ways of thinking, inquiring, and embracing pedagogical practices that dismiss the views of gender as a binary system, in place of facilitating the expression of gender interests and behaviors in the most expansive and fluid ways.