|
|
Educational Resources
|
|
|
|
 Queering
Elementary Education : Advancing the Dialogue About Sexualities
and Schooling (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)
by William J. Letts (Editor), James
T. Sears (Editor)
Queering Elementary Education is not a sinister
stratagem in the "gay agenda." As chapters here detail,
it is creating classrooms that challenge categorical thinking,
promote interpersonal intelligence, and foster critical
consciousness.
Queer elementary classrooms are those where
parents and educators care enough about their children to trust
the human capacity for understanding and their educative abilities
to foster insight into the human condition. Those who teach
queerly refuse to participate in the great sexual sorting machine
called schooling where little GI Joes and Barbies become star
quarterbacks and prom queens while the Linuses and Tinky Winkies
become wallflowers or human door mats.
Queering education means bracketing our simplest
classroom activities in which we routinely equate sexual
identities with sexual acts, privilege the heterosexual condition,
and presume sexual destinies. Queer teachers are those who develop
curriculum and pedagogy that afford every child dignity rooted in
self-worth and esteem for others. Queer teachers imagine the world
through a child's eyes while seeking to transform it through adult
authorship.
In short, queering education happens when we
look at schooling upside-down and view childhood from the
inside-out. Teaching queerly demands we explore taken-for-granted
assumptions about diversity, identities, childhood, prejudice,
schooling, and conflict. -- The author, James
T Sears , December 6, 1999
|
|
Trade union serves those working in education, public service and health care. Find articles, news, events, grants and other resources.
|
|
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) is
the first and only university-based research center in the United
States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and
political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgendered individuals. By sponsoring public programs and
conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and
functioning as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS
serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that
fosters social change.
CLAGS
The Graduate Center
CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7115
New York, NY 10016
|
|
Consult this newspaper's almanac of facts and figures on universities, or read the stories on policies and trends in higher education.
|
|
The E-Directory is utilitarian: it is designed to
help scholars collaborate. While the E-Directory is not a
discussion group, it facilitates extensive private collaboration.
It lists only those with e-mail accounts and
currently willing to receive mail. No one may participate without
sending the
simple entry form.
There is a public
list of persons who have agreed to have their entries posted
publicly. They represent about 60% of the scholars in the full
E-Directory. The full E-Directory, with 800+ entries, is available
only to those who agree to be listed.
|
|
The Gay and Lesbian Education Commission was
established in 1991.
Areas of involvement include:
 | Participating and reviewing the educational
materials used in the district. |
| Advising the Board of Education of new and
proposed legislations affecting gay and lesbian students.
|
| Recommending ways of addressing staff
education on issues of homosexuality. |
| Planning, implementing and attending
parent/community outreaches and other special meetings
sponsored by the commission. |
|
Gay
and Lesbian Politics: WWW and Internet Resources -- Academic
A selective, annotated guide to the best and most
authoritative resources on politics, law, and public policy.
Designed for students, scholars, journalists, activists, and
citizens, and maintained by Steve Sanders, Indiana University.
|
|
GLSEN works to end this cycle of bigotry in K-12
schools. Through its growing network of 85 chapters in 35 states,
GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community
is valued and respected, regardless of sexual orientation or
gender identity. Founded as a volunteer group in Boston in 1990,
GLSEN led the fight that made Massachusetts one of the first
states to ban anti-gay discrimination in its public schools in
1993. GLSEN went national in 1994 and has since become one of the
nation’s leading voices for equality and safety in the
educational system. |
|
The Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiave
(GALAEI) is a program designed to meet the HIV/AIDS education and
prevention needs of Latino/a sexual minorities. GALAEI understands
the impact of overall health on the well being of Philadelphia's
Latino/a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities, and
seeks to address general health issues through education,
prevention, advocacy and representation.
|
|
From ground breaking research on giving and
volunteering to myth-busting analysis of the economic status of
lesbians and gay men, IGLSS leads the way in research and analysis
on questions important to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgendered Americans.
IGLSS is a national independent public policy
think tank. In its policy journal, Angles,
the Institute reports the latest findings on such critical issues
as evidence of employment discrimination and benefits of allowing
same-sex couples to marry.
|
|
The nation's oldest and largest.
|
|
Extensive in-house resources at various public
and private universities.
|
|
The combined vision and mission on the
Consortium is to achieve higher education environments in which
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, faculty, staff,
administrators, and alumni have equity in every respect.
The Consortium offers information of use to
those who work with college and university students.
|
|
The National Institute for Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Education is dedicated to
providing comprehensive educational programs to assist
individuals, families, communities of faith, corporations, and
professionals facing GLBT issues. The intent of the National
Institute is to reduce individual and family distress and diminish
the current systems of oppression, discrimination and homophobia
in mainstream America.
|
ONE Institute International Gay and Lesbian
Archives (ONEIGLA) is an independent, not-for-profit California
educational institution which houses the world's largest research
library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered heritage and
concerns. Affiliated with but not governed by the University of
Southern California, ONE/IGLA relies wholly on community and
corporate support.
Formed in 1952, ONE is the oldest ongoing Gay/Lesbian organization
in the Western Hemisphere. The collection that ultimately became
the International Gay & Lesbian Archives was begun in 1942.
The two organizations, each with a long history, merged in 1994 to
create a larger and more diversified organizational structure,
serving an ever-broader constituency, a growing group of
affiliated scholars, and with a wide range of volunteer and
contributor opportunities.
|
|
Schools with either LGBTQ programs and/or
support groups and centers are indexed by Country:
|
|
One of the oldest Queer Resource Databases on
the internet, containing 25,488 files about everything queer.\
|
|
Join the growing list of LGBTQ Scholars here at
Queertheory.com
|
|
Add your homepage to the growing list here at
Queertheory.com
|
|
SmartWomen promotes the empowerment, education
and inspiration of women who love women through digital dialogue,
socializing, networking and activism. We are an intersection of
dialogue and information exchange, a virtual e-community.
SmartWomen provides women who love women-focused dialogue, events,
information, and much more.
We recognize that our goal is to be inclusive
and open to all women and to challenge racism, classism,
ablism, sexism, ageism and sizism. The mission of SmartWomen.Org
is to promote and facilitate, uplift, inspire and educate the
integration of women who genuinely love women into all aspects of
society, in order that we may lead our society to a
better place.
SmartWomen is for women who love women, no
matter what form that may take. Therefore, the group is
inclusive and welcomes bisexuals, transgendered people and
straight women. SmartWomen’s aim is to bring together in one
place, and through one means of communication, the positive power
of women and to do something entertaining, useful and productive
with that talent.
|
|
