Queer Pedagogy

Queer pedagogy is an academic field that brings together queer theory and critical pedagogy, both rooted in Marxist critical theory, to challenge what its proponents call compulsory cisheterosexual and normative structures in education that marginalize students and educators who are not heterosexual. It works both as a theoretical lens for critiquing teaching practice and as a practical set of tools for teachers, examining the relationship between student and teacher, the role identity plays in the classroom, where eroticism sits in teaching, how curriculum is designed, and how educational spaces connect to the wider community. A central concern of the field is a crisis in how knowledge gets produced, caused by the limits of what can be known and by power structures that constrain it, and it looks at how heterosexual and queer norms can dampen the desire to know, using approaches that draw attention to the uncertainty in what is taken as established knowledge. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/