Talking Points # 3

Dennis Carlson, Gayness, Multicultural Education, and Community

Premise

• Normalizing Community


• Education


• Multicultural
  
• Gay


• Lesbian


• Curriculum


• Sterotypes
  

Author's Argument

"Carlson Argues that there maybe a democratic, multicultural community represented in schools (sexual identity) for homosexuals", America is dominated in a normalizing community, where there is privilege for (white, middle class, male, heterosexuals)"

Evidence

• "Public schools in particular have often promoted "normalizing"in a community that are based on definig a cultural or "norm" and postioming class, gender, race, and sexual othersat the margins".
• "Normalizing texts systematically exclude and neglect the culture of those outside the norm for the purpose of ratifying or legitimizing the dominant culture as the only significant culture worth studying".
• "Community gets redefined in a noninclusive manner so that we are unable to articulate a comon or "public" interest"

Comments

To be honest the text was very hard for me to follow, because it was so much information to put in; if that makes sense. I really have a big issue on the statement that was made" homosexuality is contagious", I do not agree with it at all.; This is only a way for the school department to decline homsexual teachers to teach in schools. Other then that Carlson declared his point in giving examples to support his ideas.