FYI ****************************************** Below is an announcement about a Call for Papers on the theme of SEXUALITY, GENDER, IDENTITY and EDUCATION that will be published by The Educational Forum as its Fall 2015 issue (v.79 n. 4). Co-Editors Alan Amtzis and Janna Jackson Kellinger encourage the submission of scholarly research and essays for this special issue on this timely topic. Please consider contributing a manuscript to this issue and please share this announcement with any colleagues who may share our interest in exploring the relationships among sexuality, gender, identity and education. Thank you, Dr. Alan Amtzis, The College of New Jersey and Dr. Janna Jackson Kellinger, University of Massachusetts, Boston Call for Papers Announcement: THE EDUCATIONAL FORUM Theme Issue v.79 n. 4 SEXUALITY, GENDER, IDENTITY and EDUCATION The Educational Forum, Kappa Delta Pi’s scholarly journal of educational research, is seeking original articles for its Fall 2015 themed issue titled “Sexuality, Gender, Identity and Education. The Educational Forum is an international peer-reviewed journal whose mission is to “publish compelling research findings and thought-provoking perspectives as a catalyst for stimulating and encouraging research and dialogue and for advancing and transforming education.” Co-edited by Dr. Alan Amtzis of The College of New Jersey and Dr. Janna Jackson Kellinger of University of Massachusetts/Boston, this Call for Papers seeks empirical research studies and conceptual essays that explore the relationships of sexuality and gender with identity and education. The following comments and guidelines are excerpted from the full Call for Papers, which is available on Taylor and Francis Publishers’ website. Please click on this link for full information about submitting a manuscript for consideration for this issue: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ed/call-for-papers/the-educational-for... Despite changes in the social landscape of contemporary life, the spectre of sexuality, gender, and other related markers of identity still elicit strong and often polarizing reactions in relation to K-16 education and beyond. Tensions about sexuality being fluid or fixed are still being debated, and understandings about gender as a social construction or biological definition provoke heated and politicized argument. The Educational Forum is interested in exploring questions about how, where, when and in what ways sexuality and gender relate to identity and inform educational practice, specifically in relation to teaching, learning, curriculum, classroom culture and educational policy. At a time when personal attitudes and public policies are shifting, The Educational Forum seeks to articulate what the shift means for our educational systems and the actual lived experience of teachers, students, administrators, parents, curriculum developers, and other stakeholders through original empirical research and conceptual essays. Exploring ways of understanding sexualities, genders, and identities as they influence, and are influenced by, educational practices, cultures, policies, and interactive life in classrooms generates questions and questioning processes that suggest a framework for this issue, including (but are not limited to): • How do issues of sexuality, gender, and identity transform (and become transformed by) school settings and cultures, particularly when perceived as “too controversial”? • How are learning and teaching grounded in, affected by, and inspired by sexualities, genders, and other identifications including heteronormativity? • When sexualities, genders, and other identities are explored, what is the “value-added” as well as the tensions, challenges and obstacles? How can we resolve them? • How have technologies contributed to broader understandings of how sexualities, genders, and other identifications play out (or should play out) in education? • What are current constructions and manifestations of queer pedagogy and how do they parallel (or not) other critical approaches to teaching? • How have shifts in public attitudes and social policies affected the realities of students, teachers, administrators, and staff, including any resultant backlash, assumptions about assimilation, and attitudes about what curriculum should include? Papers that connect the issues and themes of “Sexuality, Gender, Identity, and Education” to classroom practices and student/teacher experiences are of particular interest. For full and specific instructions to authors, including page lengths and formats, please visit our web link at: http://www.kdp.org/publications/theeducationalforum/authorguidelines.php Submission deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2015. Submissions must be made at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/utef Note to Authors: Please include the code 794 at the beginning of your manuscript title. For more information on The Educational Forum, please visit the journal’s webpage: www.tandfonline.com/UTEF<http://www.tandfonline.com/UTEF><http:/... Contact either Academic Editor Dr. Alan Amtzis at amtzis@tcnj.edu<mailto:amtzis@tcnj.edu> or Managing Editor Emily Zoss at emily@kdp.org<mailto:emily@kdp.org> with additional questions. Janna Jackson Kellinger, Ph.D. Associate Professor Graduate Program Director of Middle/Secondary Education Curriculum and Instruction Department College of Education and Human Development University of Massachusetts Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125