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A Critical Inquiry into Queer UtopiasLandscaping Classrooms toward Queer Utopias

A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias: Landscaping Classrooms toward Queer Utopias [While the education field has addressed classroom design and queer theorists have addressed the notion of landscaping, scholars have yet to critique classroom spaces from a queer theoretical perspective. The concept of queer landscaping, as theorized by Jill Casid, offers a particularly powerful concept for exploring the ways in which physical and discursive classroom spaces are performatively produced and the ways in which this production can trouble the boundary between “interior” and “exterior” spaces.1 Theoretical justification for queer classroom landscapes can be found at the intersections of queer theories of pedagogy and theories of classroom design, two areas of scholarship that rarely, if ever, overlap. As Beth Ferri, participating in a study by Elizabeth Sierra-Zarella, succinctly explains, queer pedagogy is disruptive of normative assumptions, troubles taken-for-granted assumptions, and is critical of binary thinking. Queer pedagogy confounds and confronts knowledge and power, exclusions, and erasures. It shifts the center and makes the familiar strange.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-45604-8
Pages
149 –172
DOI
10.1057/9781137311979_7
Publisher site
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Abstract

[While the education field has addressed classroom design and queer theorists have addressed the notion of landscaping, scholars have yet to critique classroom spaces from a queer theoretical perspective. The concept of queer landscaping, as theorized by Jill Casid, offers a particularly powerful concept for exploring the ways in which physical and discursive classroom spaces are performatively produced and the ways in which this production can trouble the boundary between “interior” and “exterior” spaces.1 Theoretical justification for queer classroom landscapes can be found at the intersections of queer theories of pedagogy and theories of classroom design, two areas of scholarship that rarely, if ever, overlap. As Beth Ferri, participating in a study by Elizabeth Sierra-Zarella, succinctly explains, queer pedagogy is disruptive of normative assumptions, troubles taken-for-granted assumptions, and is critical of binary thinking. Queer pedagogy confounds and confronts knowledge and power, exclusions, and erasures. It shifts the center and makes the familiar strange.2]

Published: Oct 27, 2015

Keywords: Universal Design; Queer Theory; Seating Arrangement; Classroom Space; Classroom Design

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