1st Edition

Investigating Transgender and Gender Expansive Education Research, Policy and Practice

Edited By Wayne Martino, Wendy Cumming-Potvin Copyright 2020
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses an emerging and vital field of scholarship, which deals with transgender- and gender-expansive-informed education, policy, and practice. The collection provides a framework for thinking about the relevance of Transgender Studies for the field of education and specifically for K-12 schooling contexts. It argues for the need to engage transgender-informed epistemologies... Read more

1. Introduction: Transgender and gender expansive education research, policy and practice: reflecting on epistemological and ontological possibilities of bodily becoming  2. Contested spaces: trans-inclusive school policies and parental sovereignty in Canada  3. The policyscape of transgender equality and gender diversity in the Western Australian education system: a case study  4. Can policies help schools affirm gender diversity? A policy archaeology of transgender-inclusive policies in California schools  5. What’s involved in ‘the work’? Understanding administrators’ roles in bringing trans-affirming policies into practice  6. Problematizing the cisgendering of school washroom space: interrogating the politics of recognition of transgender and gender non-conforming youth  7. The de/politicization of pronouns: implications of the No Big Deal Campaign for gender-expansive educational policy and practice

Biography

Wayne Martino is Professor of Equity and Social Justice Education in the Faculty of Education and an affiliate member of the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is currently Principal Investigator on the research project entitled: Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in Schools.





Wendy Cumming-Potvin is an Associate Professor in the College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education at Murdoch University, Australia, as well as an affiliate member at the International Gender Studies Centre at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford, UK. She is an international collaborator on the Social Sciences and Humanities and Research Council of Canada grant Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in Schools.