Title: Out at School: Verbatim Theatre for Social Justice Teacher Education The Experiences of LGBTQ + Families at School.
Speaker: Professor Tara Goldstein, Vice Principal of New College at the University of Toronto.
Date: Wednesday, 8th May 2024
Time: 9:00am-10:00am NSW Time
Abstract
Join education researcher, playwright and teacher educator for a reading and discussion of Out at School, a verbatim play script based on 37 interviews conducted in the LGBTQ Families Speak Out research project (2014-2020). Out at School is now available as an audio-play on popular podcast platforms and can be used by teacher educators at Southern Cross in their own classrooms.
Biography
Tara Goldstein’s teaching and research program at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto, focuses on gender, sexuality and schooling, verbatim theatre and archival research. The findings from her recent research project The Experiences of LGBTQ Families in Ontario Schools are shared on her website www.lgbtqfamiliesspeakout.ca and in her books Teaching Gender and Sexuality at School: Letters to Teachers (Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2019) and Our Children are Your Students: LGBTQ Students Speak Out (Myers Education Press, 2021), winner of a 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award and 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award.
The direct Zoom link will be emailed on registration.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Kind regards,
Professor Amy Cutter-Mackenzie (Executive Dean), Professor Sue Walker (Associate Dean Research) and the Faculty of Education.
