History Reproduces Itself: The transmission of symbolic capital at a private liberal arts college in the USA |
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| Authors: | Alan Skelton |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology and Rural Sociology , University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, WI, 53706;2. Division of Social Sciences , University of Hawaii-West Oahu , 96-129 Ala Ike, Pearl City, HI, 96782, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes a number of ways in which a small group of gay higher educators draw upon their sexuality in their teaching. It considers three main themes (teaching from the outside; teaching as performance; and teaching as a (gay) person) to illuminate a discussion of how sexuality and teaching can be brought into productive relation. Whilst not wanting to imply a monolithic view of gay sexual identity and its relationship with teaching, the paper explores how the approaches to teaching described disrupt dominant pedagogies and the masculinities which underpin them. The paper concludes by inviting research into the ways in which heterosexual men use their sexuality positively in teaching and learning situations in higher education. |
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| Keywords: | nursing construction academy professional identity academic development |
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