This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted. These spaces must de-construct and reconstruct pedagogical power and knowledge to promote collective intersubjective consciousnesses, and widen the visionof the reflective practitioner to that of the pedagogical practitioner.
Michael Seal is Reader in Critical Pedagogy at Newman University, UK.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Heteronormativity and its interruptions in universities: 'to teach is to be watched'.- SECTION I: Framework and context.- Chapter 2. Heteronormativity in Higher Education: Terminology, Context and Empirical Work.- Chapter 3. Pedagogic framework for interrupting heteronormativity.- Chapter 4. Theoretical framework and key concepts.- SECTION II. Dynamics of heteronormativity within educational settings.- Chapter 5. A Case Study of Institutional Heteronormativity in Higher Education Institutions.- Chapter 6. Dynamics of inter-subjective heteronormativity amongst students in higher education.- Chapter 7. The absent majority? Constructions of heterosexuality within educational settings.- Chapter 8. The present minority: Homonormativity within educational settings.- SECTION III. Interrupting heteronormativity and constructing transgressive and transformative sexualities.- Chapter 9. Coming out: the personal, the political and the pedagogic.- Chapter 10. The coming out imperative: self-revelation as pedagogy.- Chapter 11. Transgressive sexualities and public pedagogies.- Chapter 12. A whole course intersectional team approach to interrupting heteronormativity.- Chapter 13. Educating the Pedagogical Practitioner: The Liminal Spaces of a Queer and Critical Pedagogy.- Chapter 14. Conclusion: Interrupting Heteronormativity in Higher Education—Next Steps.