Brill's Encyclopedia of Critical Understanding in Education
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Subject: Education
Series Editors: William M. Reynolds and Brad Porfilio
Comprising 2000 entries, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Critical Understanding in Education is a fully searchable database presenting comprehensive and accurate portraits of the various disciplines related to critical thinking and understanding in Educational Research. What readers will encounter in this database is what the various fields are saying, and have been saying during their various histories. Designed to open up conversations among current established scholars and future, next generation scholars nationally and internationally, these complicated conversations further expand the various fields and lead to possibilities for praxis. Praxis emphasizes the increase of critical knowledge and understandings both for self-development and social reconstruction. There is a uniqueness in Critical Understanding in Education in the commitment to the focus on the historical development and comprehensive critical presentation of a particular discipline.
For more information: see Brill.com
Comprising 2000 entries, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Critical Understanding in Education is a fully searchable database presenting comprehensive and accurate portraits of the various disciplines related to critical thinking and understanding in Educational Research. What readers will encounter in this database is what the various fields are saying, and have been saying during their various histories. Designed to open up conversations among current established scholars and future, next generation scholars nationally and internationally, these complicated conversations further expand the various fields and lead to possibilities for praxis. Praxis emphasizes the increase of critical knowledge and understandings both for self-development and social reconstruction. There is a uniqueness in Critical Understanding in Education in the commitment to the focus on the historical development and comprehensive critical presentation of a particular discipline.
For more information: see Brill.com
Gender
(1,487 words)
Keywordsagender – cisgender – gender binary – gender expression – transgender
Related Entrieslgbtq Policy Landscape – Youth Gender is an important concept that shapes schooling generally and language arts education sp…
Gender-Affirming Care
(2,577 words)
1 Introduction Gender-affirming care refers to a cluster of medical, surgical, social, and legal interventions often sought by transgender and gender-nonconforming people to affirm their
gender presentation and/or
identity. Gend…
Gender-Based Microaggressions
(1,926 words)
Microaggressions are forms of oppression that occur daily through language, behavior, and environmental interactions. Microaggressions can contribute to negative mental health outcomes, negative
campus climate for educationa…
Genderbashing
(1,167 words)
Coined in 1996 by Canadian feminist scholar Viviane K. Namaste, the term “genderbashing” refers to a variant of queerphobic discrimination—and most notably, physical violence—which strikes at the intersection of
gender and
sexualit…
Gender Binary
(687 words)
The gender binary is the social construction of
gender into a classification of two categories, man and woman, as distinct, non-overlapping, and opposite from each other if placed on either end of a spectrum …
Gender-Complex Education
(1,462 words)
1 Introduction Classroom and
campus climates in K-12 and college/university settings are consistently hostile towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) students. According to glsen’s 2019 National Climat…
Gender/Gender Identity/Gender Expression
(2,562 words)
1 Gender Gender is an important component of queer theoretical frameworks, with most understandings in the field drawing from a complex and often contrasting foundation in developmental psychology, Fren…
Genderism
(2,217 words)
1 Overview of Genderism Genderism is an ideology and a system of oppression rooted in the notion of the
gender binary, where gender is classified into two distinct and dichotomous possibilities that are aligned with one’…
Genderqueer
(1,578 words)
1 Introduction Genderqueer is a term that is rooted in activism and postmodernism. Used first in the early 1990s by activists as a response to
heteronormativity, cisnormativity, and the divide between “gender and gayness” (Wil…