Homonationalism in teacher education – productions of schools as heteronormative national places. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Reimers, Eva
• Is Part Of: Irish educational studies. Volume 36:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 91
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: teacher education -- homonationalism -- LGBTQI; Education -- Ireland -- Periodicals; 370.9415
• DOI: 10.1080/03323315.2017.1289703
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0332-3315

Abstract

Abstract : The paper interrogates how teacher education and schools are produced as places for simultaneous and intertwined norms of nationality and norms of sexuality. Drawing on data from observations at a Swedish teacher training programme, the concepts of banal nationalism, homonationalism, and precarity are used in order to discuss productions of sexual, national, and cultural subjects. The analysis indicates that homonationalism in education produces tolerable queers together with intolerant migrants. In this way Sweden is produced as a homonormative nation in opposition to nations and subjects that are considered 'other'. The concluding section suggests using investigations of homonationalism as a tool in teacher education in order to bring about more inclusive schools.