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Linguistic Perspectives on Sexuality in Education

Representations, Constructions and Negotiations

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  • Offers an in-depth and nuanced exploration of the relationship between language, sexuality and education from a range of perspectives
  • Comprehensively reviews themes, debates, theories and methods that have currency in the field, including the emerging area of non-binary gender and sexuality
  • Features both practical and discursive sections that will be particularly useful to early career researchers and practitioners

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality (PSLGS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Welcoming Marginalised Voices in the Classroom

  2. Beyond the Binary

  3. Exploring Intervention: Theory vis-a-vis Practice

  4. Beyond Academia: Recommendations for Practitioners

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About this book

This book brings together leading academics and practitioners working in the area of language, gender, sexuality and education, consolidating recent developments and moving the field forward in a contemporary context. This unique and timely volume captures current themes, debates, theories and methods in the field, and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working around the world in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Education, Sociology and Discourse Studies. 


Reviews

“This is a breath of fresh air – a collection of scholars from nine different countries who come together here to focus on sexuality in language education through a linguistic lens. Łukasz Pakuła has done a remarkable job of understanding where the field has been, who has contributed to it, and where it needs to go now. The English language classroom has never been explored like this before. The particular grappling with ‘representations, constructions and negotiations’ gives the language teaching world what it needs: a reckoning with queer identities and the places of intersection with a heteronormative world.”  – Allyson Jule, Trinity Western University, Canada

“These papers explore the damages created by curriculum, instruction and educational policy when classroom practice endorses heteronormative, social and linguistic privilege. The papers specify changes in policy and practice that will bring endorsements of gender and sexual diversity(s) into the classroom.  This is queer linguistics oriented around social action and social justice. The synergy stemming from the perspectives and methodologies in this collection offers a comprehensive picture of the diversity of research in this emerging field.” – William L. Leap, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

    Łukasz Pakuła

About the editor

Łukasz Pakuła is affiliated with the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. His research interests include language, gender, and sexuality, identities in educational settings, critical (meta)lexicography and identity construction in reference works (e.g. dictionaries), as well as Corpus Linguistics working in tandem with Critical Discourse Analysis. Recently, his research focus has been on exploring neo-right discourses concerning the so-called “ideology of gender” and “the LGBT ideology”.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Linguistic Perspectives on Sexuality in Education

  • Book Subtitle: Representations, Constructions and Negotiations

  • Editors: Łukasz Pakuła

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64030-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64029-3Published: 24 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64032-3Published: 24 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64030-9Published: 23 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2947-9169

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-9177

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 444

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Linguistics, general, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy

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