Congratulations to the following QUT Centre for Justice Queer Research Group members who have achieved publishing success.
Lisa van Leent and Michelle Jeffries have published a piece titled, Queer(y)ing primary assessment: Bodies, genders, and sexuality diversity. In Davis, James P., Adams, Sarah, Challen, Catherine, & Bourke, Theresa (Eds.) Designing Inclusive Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Practice.
Notions of ‘inclusive’ assessment practices should extend to diversity related to bodies, genders, and sexualities. Every classroom will have children (or family or friends) that have diverse bodies (e.g., male, female, intersex), a range of genders (e.g., boy, girl, non-binary, trans), and/or a range of developing sexualities (e.g., heterosexual, bi-sexual, queer). The argument of primary schools as non-sexual places has long been realised as a myth because children know about and experience their bodies, gender, and sexuality all throughout childhood including prior to school. Unfortunately, the adults in primary schools continue to (re)produce hetero-cis-norms, including teachers and families. Whilst this is changing through curriculum and policy developments, and decades-long advocacy for queering primary education, this chapter argues that practices such as classroom-based, school, and broader national assessments still require some queer interrogation. This chapter presents an opportunity for queer(y)ing primary school assessment practices.
Read the full publication here.
Professor Matthew Bull has prepared a chapter titled, Criminology in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies.
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