Our children are your students: LGBTQ families speak out
Our children are your students: LGBTQ families speak out
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我们的孩子是你们的学生：LGBTQ 家庭大声疾呼
作者：
M. J. Ellul
尽管有许多教学资源可以帮助教育工作者了解LGBTQ家庭及其孩子的现实，但塔拉·戈尔茨坦的新书以此类家庭及其经历、斗争和成功的叙述为基础，有很多东西可以教我们如何创建一个更加公正和公平的教育体系。在过去的两个学年里，我一直在努力将关于LGBTQ家庭和儿童的内容纳入马耳他大学的一个关于性和课程的研究单元，该单元是为学前教师和学习支助教育工作者设计的。为此，戈尔茨坦的书，我们的孩子是你的学生：LGBTQ家庭说出来（2021年），已被证明是非常翔实的和可访问的讨论这一经常被忽视的因素在教育学方面。戈尔茨坦是多伦多大学安大略教育研究所性别、性和学校教育教授。她也是一位民族志学者和戏剧作家。这本书的特色是塔拉戈德斯坦和她的团队在2014年至2020年期间对LGBTQ家庭进行的37次采访的讨论。戈尔茨坦的书分为五章。在第一章，题为“从焦虑到证词和自传”戈尔茨坦从解释为什么LGBTQ父母的纳入是一个人权问题出发，同时在意识形态上定位个人和机构实践中的压迫和歧视循环，需要通过经验来反击（第19页）。戈尔茨坦曾经支持匿名教学法，这使她能够通过鼓励学生“通过匿名回应写作”来打破课堂上对同性恋和变性恐惧的沉默（第123页）。这最终使她发展了一种证词和自传的教学法，前者是“人们讲述他们的经历的故事，[和]与经历边缘化和压迫的群体或社区有关”（克罗斯比&布林顿，2019年，第233页）。当这些故事没有共同体联系时，它们是自传（Goldstein，2021，第22页）。这本书的第二章在风格上更具多样性，标题是“这是我们的家庭：一个逐字逐句的戏剧作品”，包括一个有21个独白和对话场景的戏剧，一系列投影图像，以及团队成员凯特·里德的三首原创歌曲（第41页）。剧中演员之一的瑞恩（Ryan）说：“在这出戏中，我们每个人都体现了不同背景、国家、身份和经历的人，而这些都不是他们自己的。”因此，有三个或三个以上父母的“多子女”家庭（第51页）是场景1中的主角，而场景3则谈到了“不断”的重要性。
Although there are many teaching resources to help educators understand the reality of LGBTQ families and their children, Tara Goldstein’s newest book, constructed on the narratives of such families and their experiences, struggles, and successes, has a lot to teach us on how to create an educational system that is more just and equitable. During the past two academic years I have sought to incorporate content on LGBTQ families and children in a study unit on sexuality and the curriculum at the University of Malta, which unit is intended for preschool teachers and Learning Support Educators. To this end, Goldstein’s book, Our Children Are Your Students: LGBTQ Families Speak Out (2021), has proven extremely informative and accessible to discuss aspects of this often neglected element in pedagogy. Goldstein is professor on Gender, Sexuality and Schooling at the Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She is also an ethnographer and a play writer. The book features discussions from thirty-seven interviews that Tara Goldstein and her team conducted between 2014 and 2020 with LGBTQ families. Goldstein’s book is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, titled ‘From Anonymity to Testimony and Autobiography’ Goldstein departs from an explanation why the inclusion of LGBTQ parents is a matter of human rights, while ideologically locating cycles of oppression and discrimination within individual and institutional practices which need to be countered through experiences (p. 19). Goldstein used to endorse a pedagogy of anonymity, one which allowed her to break the silences of homophobia and transphobia in the classroom by encouraging students to express themselves ‘through anonymous response writing’ (p. 123). This eventually led her to develop a pedagogy of testimony and autobiography, the former being ‘the stories people tell about their experiences [and] linked to a group or community experiencing marginalization and oppression’ (Crosby & Brinton, 2019, p. 233). These stories were autobiographies when they were not communally linked (Goldstein, 2021, p. 22). More multimodal in style, the second chapter of the book is titled ‘This is our Family: A Verbatim Theatre Piece’ and consists of a play with twenty-one scenes of monologue and dialogue, a series of projected images, and three original songs by team member Kate Reid (p. 41). Ryan, one of the actors in the play, conveys the narrative intentions clearly when he says that ‘[t]hrough this play, each of us are embodying people of different backgrounds, nations, identities and experiences that are not their own.’ Thus, ‘polyfidelitous’ families with three or more parents (p. 51) are protagonists in Scene 1, while Scene 3 speaks of the importance to be ‘constantly