Sexual Orientation and Teacher Identity: Professionalism and GLBT Politics in Teacher Preparation and Practice examines the nature of LGBTQ issues and teacher identity as social, cultural, and political constructs. In particular, the contributing authors to this collection of chapters present a collection of chapters (contemporary discourses) that will illuminate and critique the practices, structures, and politics in both teacher preparation programs and public school settings that affect LGBTQ teachers and their identity in relation to the struggles of teachers as professionals face in obtaining recognition. The contributing authors of the book focus on teachers are entering educational settings where difference connotes not equal, and discourses of LGBTQ politics, identity, and difference are interwoven with a realization of discrimination and marginalization. The authors, drawing on their personal and professional experiences, give much needed voice to recognition and the formation of identity from a LGBTQ viewpoint as they relate to teachers, teacher educators, and other cultural workers responsible for shaping professional identities of teachers and for teaching students in schools and classrooms across the nation.

Patrick M. Jenlink is Regents Professor, E.J. Campbell Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership, and Professor of doctoral studies in the Department of Secondary Education and Educational Leadership, Stephen F. Austin State University.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Negotiating Identity as TeacherA Critical Pedagogy of Learning to Teach

Patrick M. Jenlink

Chapter 2Performativity and Disidentification: Subverting Identity Politics Through Stereotypical Embrace or Rejection

Adam j. Greteman& Ira David Socol

Chapter 3 LGBT Teacher Identity: Transgressing the Linear and Into the Spherical Identity Model

Megan S. Kennedy

Chapter 4 Understanding and Undermining Heteronormativity

Heather Hickman

Chapter 5Shh . . . Out: From Silence to SelfHow Experiences as Gay and Lesbian TeachersInform Teaching

Jana Jackson

Chapter 6 Teachers as Sexual Strangers

Steve Fifield

Chapter 7 The Personal is Professional: Understanding Schools as Cultural Institutions through the Identities of Mother/Educator/Lesbian

Laura A. Bower

Chapter 8Dismantling Straight Privilege: Alternate Conceptions of Identity and Education

Tonette S. Rocco, Hilary Landorf, and Suzanne Gallagher

Chapter 9 GLBT, Teacher Identity and the Pre-service Teacher

Stephanie Lynn Daza

Chapter 10 Epilogue: Sexual Orientation, Identity Politics, and Teaching: LGBTQ Teacher Identities (Re) considered

Patrick M. Jenlink

Editor and Authors