Queering Student Participation

How does a classroom build around the identities of it’s queer students? “Queering Student Participation: Whispers, Echoes, Rants, and Memory,” by Matthew Cox explores the way in which queer idenitfying student’s classroom experience is impacted by their identity.

queering participation

  Embedded in “queer” is the notion of disruption, so what does this mean for participation and our relationship to it as instructors? What does it mean to be “queer”? In “Queering Student Participation: Whispers, Echoes, Rants, and Memory,” Matthew Cox defines queer in two main ways: first, as a catch-all term for anyone who’s LBGT; Read More…

An Extraordinary Course

In the title of this post, I use the word extraordinary to mean outside of the ordinary, the norm, and what is expected. I was thinking back to some of my favorite or most-memorable classes that have taken a departure from what is expected in a “normal” course. These “extraordinary” experiences are memorable because they Read More…