Gender Diversity and Sexuality in English Language Education: New Transnational Voices

Description

This book combines teaching-informed research studies and research-informed teaching accounts which explore English language education that engages with (a)gender and (a)sexual diversity. Informed by critical theories, critical literacy, post-structuralism, queer theory, and indigeneity/(de)coloniality, the critical perspectives in this volume consider gender and sexuality as dimensions of human life and aim to promote sexual, gender, emotional and relational wellbeing together with the construction of cultural horizons and citizenship. The chapters are organised around three interdependent areas of inquiry: 1) how educators design pedagogies and curriculums around gender diversity and sexuality, 2) how students and teachers navigate issues of gender diversity and sexuality in practice, as well as 3) how issues of gender diversity and sexuality are (not) addressed in the materials for teaching and learning English. The contributors are all teacher educators-researchers and therefore have vast experience in enacting, implementing, designing, and examining the field of English language teacher education from/for the classroom with a gender perspective in diverse settings, with chapters come from Argentina, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and Uruguay.

Dario Luis Banegas is Lecturer in Language Education in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Navan Govender is Lecturer in English Language Education in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Banegas and Govender have put together a timely collection of thoroughly engaging and innovative studies from around the globe that explore how issues surrounding gender and sexuality are being incorporated into English teaching pedagogies. Whatever your location or teaching context you are sure to find something here to inform and inspire. * Luke Lawrence, Toyo University, Japan * Banegas and Govender have brought together a polyvocal text that provides a robust view on the evolving construct of gender and its role in language teaching, learning, and research. * J. M. Paiz, The George Washington University, USA *