Bringing decades of teaching experience to bear, Paula Greathouse and Cody Miller bring forth this second volume on teaching queer young adult literature in English language arts classes. This collection features many recently published young adult texts that tell the stories of a wide array of identities, conflicts, settings, and characters, as well as a historical overview of the queer young adult genre by two titans of young adult scholarship: Michael Cart and Joan Kaywell. This collection is the most comprehensive resource available for teachers today for teaching queer young adult literature.” —Victor Malo-Juvera, Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator at the University of North Carolina Wilmington
“Greathouse and Miller have brought together some of the freshest voices in the field of queer English education to foreground the experiences of LGBTQ+ characters of color with complexity, nuance, compassion, and respect and to attend to innovative media, literary structures, and genres. And as if that were not enough, the authors introduce, describe, and explore riveting literature for classrooms. It is this combination of the authors’ brilliant pedagogical ideas and compelling curriculum that make this edited volume not only of great use to middle and high school ELA teachers but also a true pleasure to read.” —Mollie V. Blackburn, professor, Department of Teaching & Learning, The Ohio State University
Greathouse and Miller have brought together some of the freshest voices in the field of queer English education to foreground the experiences of LGBTQ+ characters of color with complexity, nuance, compassion, and respect and to attend to innovative media, literary structures, and genres. And as if that were not enough, the authors introduce, describe, and explore riveting literature for classrooms. It is this combination of the authors’ brilliant pedagogical ideas and compelling curriculum that make this edited volume not only of great use to middle and high school ELA teachers but also a true pleasure to read.
Bringing decades of teaching experience to bear, Paula Greathouse and Cody Miller bring forth this second volume on teaching queer young adult literature in English language arts classes. This collection features many recently published young adult texts that tell the stories of a wide array of identities, conflicts, settings, and characters, as well as a historical overview of the queer young adult genre by two titans of young adult scholarship: Michael Cart and Joan Kaywell. This collection is the most comprehensive resource available for teachers today for teaching queer young adult literature.
Cogent and comprehensive, this is an informative and indispensable guide to using queer adolescent literature in the classroom as a complement to the curriculum. From history to collaboration with school librarians and from textual analysis to encouraging reader empathy, this splendid book is encyclopedic in its life-changing and possibly life-saving content. It clearly belongs in every library and every English language arts classroom.
Greathouse, Eisenbach, and Kaywell have assembled a rich, engaging, provocative and forward-leaning text that speaks to the importance and urgency for our educational system to recognize the coexistence of students as the embodied practice of literacy learning. Drawing from highly engaging queer-themed YA texts, these authors show examples about methods that introduce, teach, and challenge assumptions that lock in approaches to reading texts through lenses which recenter and privilege cisgender and heteronormative identities. They lead readers into a position where binaries are disrupted and move us into a complex and contextually grounded engagement with the binary. Together, they move us move beyond and away from the binary and through this, collectively lift the LGBTQ out of margin and into center.
The least controversial way for schools to show support for LGBTQ students is to subsume everything under the umbrella of an all-inclusive anti-bullying policy. But is that enough? The editors of this book (all professors of secondary education) would undoubtedly argue that it is not. The collection they have curated is rich with examples of queer-themed YA literature that can be used within the context of a middle school or high school English language arts (ELA) classroom, strengthened by specific pedagogical approaches that clearly address requisite language arts and literacy standards. A real strength of the book is its organization. The first essays provide historical perspective, and the rest offer specific examples. This reviewer particularly applauds the inclusion of essays focused on the middle school curriculum, which is often neglected.. . this is a valuable resource for teachers, librarians, and educational leaders seeking to create more-inclusive ELA classrooms. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals.
This book is a 'must have' for all educators seeking to create a more inclusive school environment. The reference sections alone are invaluable.
The least controversial way for schools to show support for LGBTQ students is to subsume everything under the umbrella of an all-inclusive anti-bullying policy. But is that enough? The editors of this book (all professors of secondary education) would undoubtedly argue that it is not. The collection they have curated is rich with examples of queer-themed YA literature that can be used within the context of a middle school or high school English language arts (ELA) classroom, strengthened by specific pedagogical approaches that clearly address requisite language arts and literacy standards. A real strength of the book is its organization. The first essays provide historical perspective, and the rest offer specific examples. This reviewer particularly applauds the inclusion of essays focused on the middle school curriculum, which is often neglected.. . this is a valuable resource for teachers, librarians, and educational leaders seeking to create more-inclusive ELA classrooms. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals.
The least controversial way for schools to show support for LGBTQ students is to subsume everything under the umbrella of an all-inclusive anti-bullying policy. But is that enough? The editors of this book (all professors of secondary education) would undoubtedly argue that it is not. The collection they have curated is rich with examples of queer-themed YA literature that can be used within the context of a middle school or high school English language arts (ELA) classroom, strengthened by specific pedagogical approaches that clearly address requisite language arts and literacy standards. A real strength of the book is its organization. The first essays provide historical perspective, and the rest offer specific examples. This reviewer particularly applauds the inclusion of essays focused on the middle school curriculum, which is often neglected.. . this is a valuable resource for teachers, librarians, and educational leaders seeking to create more-inclusive ELA classrooms.
Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; professionals.
Greathouse, Eisenbach, and Kaywell have assembled a rich, engaging, provocative and forward-leaning text that speaks to the importance and urgency for our educational system to recognize the coexistence of students as the embodied practice of literacy learning. Drawing from highly engaging queer-themed YA texts, these authors show examples about methods that introduce, teach, and challenge assumptions that lock in approaches to reading texts through lenses which recenter and privilege cisgender and heteronormative identities. They lead readers into a position where binaries are disrupted and move us into a complex and contextually grounded engagement with the binary. Together, they move us move beyond and away from the binary and through this, collectively lift the LGBTQ out of margin and into center.
