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How to hit a moving target: 35 years of gender and sexual diversity in teacher education
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, Faculty of Education, Canada ; , Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada

TATE Volume 80, Number 1, ISSN 0742-051X Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

This essay shares findings from an exhaustive review of the English-language published scholarship on integrating gender and sexual diversity in teacher education (GSDTE) since 1982. The 158 sources substantiate a largely USA-based field with an array of studied pedagogies and a citational reliance on statistics that reveal the school-sited suffering of gender and sexual minority youth. Implications for the field are shared, including: critical questions about the field's construction, objects and beneficiaries; the importance of citing GSDTE and teacher education research and not only youth outcome research; and preparing teachers for gender and sexual diversities that are presently unimaginable.

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Airton, L. & Koecher, A. (2019). How to hit a moving target: 35 years of gender and sexual diversity in teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 80(1), 190-204. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 25, 2023 from .

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