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Teaching Out: A Search for Safety and Identity

Teaching Out: A Search for Safety and Identity
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Author(s): Brandon Haskey-Valerius (University of Missouri, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 12
Source title: Teacher Reflections on Transitioning From K-12 to Higher Education Classrooms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Amy D. Broemmel (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)and Nora Vines (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-3460-4.ch009

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Abstract

This chapter makes the argument that, for queer teachers, the pursuit of educational spaces where one's personal and professional identities are safe to be fully authentic ultimately leads to the college teaching and learning space. This argument is illustrated through examples from the author's life where the merging of identities was not possible either through a lack of safety in being an out-of-the-closet gay man or stifled identity as a teacher. The chapter provides support from queer educational researchers and meaningful data on the realities of the places and spaces where queer teachers may teach and where they may want to teach.

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