Gender Diversity and Sexuality in English Language Education

<b>Runner up British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Book Prize 2023</b><br/><br/>This book combines teaching-informed research studies and research-informed teaching accounts which explore English language education that engages with (a)gender and (a)sexual diversity. Informed by critical theories critical literacy post-structuralism queer theory and indigeneity/(de)coloniality the critical perspectives in this volume consider gender and sexuality as dimensions of human life and aim to promote sexual gender emotional and relational wellbeing together with the construction of cultural horizons and citizenship. The chapters are organised around three interdependent areas of inquiry: 1) how educators design pedagogies and curriculums around gender diversity and sexuality 2) how students and teachers navigate issues of gender diversity and sexuality in practice as well as 3) how issues of gender diversity and sexuality are (not) addressed in the materials for teaching and learning English.<br/><br/><br/>The contributors are all teacher educators-researchers and therefore have vast experience in enacting implementing designing and examining the field of English language teacher education from/for the classroom with a gender perspective in diverse settings with chapters come from Argentina Bangladesh Canada Germany Norway Poland Saudi Arabia South Africa Spain Taiwan Turkey the UK and Uruguay.