Rural Education and Queer Identities

Rural and (Out)Rooted
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86824-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Rural Education and Social Justice

Rural Education and Queer Identities: Rural and (Out)Rooted explores the facets and intersections of rural education and Queer identities. It looks to schooling and education policy to question how Queer rural youth and educators can be seen, be safe, and be valued in schools and their communities. Taking the claim that rural people are deeply rooted to rural places, this text considers what a sense of rootedness looks like for Queer people in rural communities.

Through a diverse collection of scholarly contributions, personal narratives, and creative works, this text goes on to explore the notion of outrootedness and belonging in educational spaces. It presents a more complete, more inclusive picture of rural America and lifts up the voices of Queer rural people to be sung and heard. Topics explored include: Queer and trans advocacy in rural educational spaces; supporting Queer students and educators; intersectional identities; wellbeing and education; sex education in rural schools; and school safety for LGBQT+ students.

This unique collection examines intersections between Queer identities and rural education. It will be important reading for scholars and those studying for courses on Foundations of Education, Social Justice Education, History of U.S. Education, Education Policy and Politics, Queer Studies, Women and Gender Studies, as well as pre-service and place-based education courses.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Azano, Amy Price

Whitten, Clint

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword  Introduction: A Pedagogy of Pride in Rural Schools   SECTION 1: Rural Taproots  1. Except for Just One Thing  2. Tale of Two Matthews: The Laramie Project 25 Years Later  3. From Kansas Cattle Ranch to Yale University to the Daily Yonder  4. LGBTQ+ K-12 Students’ Experiences and Wellbeing in Rural Schools  5. Returning Home: Strength and Resilience in Rural Queerness  6. The Insurrection Beard  SECTION 2: Rural Root Systems  Rooted in Classrooms  7. Queerness is My Teacherness  8. “Part of me feels bad that you felt like you had to ask…”: Support LGBTQ+ Students by Supporting LGBTQ+ Teachers  9. Sparking Change in Rural Places  10. Agents of Affirmation: The Importance of Rural Queer Educators  11. Queer Timing and Community: Being a Queer Educator in Three Rural Settings  Summer  12. Redefining Home and Purpose in the Country  13. Cornbread and Community: Queer-Affirming Learning in a Rural Southern High School  Rooted in Leadership and Advocacy  14. How Rural School Leaders Create a Culture of Care for Queer Students  15. There’s Nothing Here But Sports and Jesus”: Navigating Queer Adolescence in the Texas Panhandle  16. Duthchas and a Queer Journey on a Scottish Isle  17. Rural Queer Dream-Spaces in Higher Education  18. World’s Best Dad(dy): Microvalidations in the Rural Educational Space  19. “It is easier to be Black than gay”: The experiences of Black Rural Queer Educational Leaders  Rooted in Community  20. Rural Alaskan Queer Safe Spaces: A Mini-Ethnographic Case Study in Transformative Queer Anthropology  21. Building Coalitions and Local Networks for Queer and Trans Educational Advocacy in a Small Southern Town  22. Finding Queer Joy in Mississippi: 2021 Oxford Pride in the Grove  23. Resilience and Resourcefulness: Informal Education Strategies in Rural Queer Contexts  24. Sustaining Rural Queer Joy with Camp Magic  SECTION 3: Rural Aerial Roots  Rooted in Nature and the Body  25. Wild Life  26. Exploring Queer Joy in Nature: Tales from the Rural Mountain West  27. Pride of Rural Virginia  28. These Anarchic Bodies  29. Sex Ed in Rural Schools: A focus on public health and community viability  30. Sex Ed, or Better Off the Class to Dread  31. For. Rest.: (un)Learning Lessons from my Forestry Curriculum  Rooted in Discovery and Selfhood  32. Keep Us Safe: Rendering Intersectional LGBTQ+ Student Experiences Visible at a Rural Public University  33. Transin’ Our Raisin’: The Necessity of Transversive Rural Education  34. Two Steppin’ Between Insider and Outsider Status: A Poetic Exploration  35. Seeing the Constellations in the Stars  36. From Service to the Circus: Finding Validation to Live  37. Rural Trans Livelihood in West Virginia  38.The Cows at Sunset Have a Prismatic Aura  39. Cockless Rooster: Finding Self and Safety at a Rural School  40. GirlBoy  41. Are You Still There, Robert Indiana?

Über Autor(innen)

Clint Whitten is Postdoctoral Associate in Youth Engagement at Virginia Tech, USA.

Amy Price Azano is Professor of Rural Education and Adolescent Literacy and directs the Center for Rural Education at Virginia Tech, USA.