Opportunities and tensions teaching about sexual diversity across contexts by Veronica Cassone McGowan

Teaching in Catholic school

2024-03-21 23:39:23 UTC

Not allowed to teach about homosexuality

Marine Biology

2024-03-21 23:41:18 UTC

many organisms release gametes into the water, so no sex! Others are serial genders. Example: Male first then change to female when they are larger OR female first and only the biggest changes into a male.

Elementary

2024-03-21 23:41:29 UTC

A lot of students are fascinated with seahorse behavior, so this could be an entry point.

Some people who reject heterogeneity in the human world also reject science or see science as a problem as well

vmcgowan1 — 2024-03-21 23:42:35 UTC

A lot of gender binary language used in research about the m-t-h world

vmcgowan1 — 2024-03-21 23:45:39 UTC

application to standards

vmcgowan1 — 2024-03-21 23:50:21 UTC

students seeing connections between these topics and standards-based learning in the classroom-m noting a huge limitation to the standards-- we don't talk about social learning or evolutionary biology deeply- standards are themselves pretty binary and make a lot of assumptions around the purpose of sex, gender and sexuality

Question about human sex

2024-03-21 23:53:03 UTC

Do you all talk about the evolutionary advantages of enaging in sex outside of reproduction?

Using Queer Ducks for Middle School Human Body Systems

2024-03-21 23:56:22 UTC

I have a group of talented and gifted learners that are very interested in learning about the HUMAN reproductive system and behavior, and I want to have them read some of Queer Ducks to learn about the animal world as well.