What is this thing called love - Homosexual identity, education and curriculum

Abstract

The fields of gay and lesbian studies offers post-structuralists, feminists and postcolonial theorists some rare glimpses into what it might mean to account for the simultaneity of identity and to act within the perils and pleasures of identity
politics. Educators would signifieantly benelit from acquainting themselves with lhe fields of gay and lesbian studies, not because it would access some distant other, but more immediately, because lhis might compel a second look at one's own constructed sexuality and a different look at what it is lhat structures how the sexuality of anolher is imagined. If education and the pedagogies it offers can "navigate the cultural borders" of sex, and do so in ways that problematize and pluralize, then part of our work must be to rethink the representation and discourses of identity, knowledge, and cultural power lhat circulate in schools and wilhin the knowledge apparatus. This means constructing pedagogies that implicate everyone and that can allow for the less normalizing discourses of bodies, of genders, of social relations, of affectivity, and of love.