CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Although teacher education programs have begun to teach teachers how to create classrooms free of racism, sexism, able-ism and classism, little has been done integrate preparation for sexual diversity into the teacher education curriculum. This anthology will explore the place of lesbian and gay issues in pre-service teacher education, working from the assumption that education for sexual diversity is as important as education about all other forms of difference, and that it must begin with the preparation of the teachers who will lead the schools of the future.

Contributions are invited to address any of the issues raised by this subject. Possible topics include:

• The discourse of sexuality in teacher education programs
• Mentoring lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (lgbt) pre-service teachers
• Working as an lgbt teacher educator
• Race, class, gender and sexual orientation in teacher education
• Curriculum strategies to help future teachers affirm sexual diversity
• Teaching teachers to work with children of gay families
• Training teachers as allies for lgbt youth
• Making connections with lgbt in-service teachers
• Confronting homophobia in teacher education programs and host schools
• Censorship
• Overcoming administrative resistance
• The place of lgbt issues in the multicultural enterprise
• Public policy perspectives on lgbt issues in teacher education
• What I wish my teacher education program had taught me

Please send or e-mail a one-page abstract by April 15, 2000 to:

Rita Kissen
500 Bailey Hall
University of Southern Maine
Gorham, ME 04038
kissen@maine. edu

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