Jennifer S. Simpson's research while affiliated with University of Waterloo and other places
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Publications (6)
This article offers an analysis of the parallels between neo-liberalism, epistemology, and pedagogy, specifically related to how neoliberal ideologies narrow the possibilities for considering transgressive sexualities. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) education encourages educators to consider queer lives and communities, and...
This article addresses the pedagogical aspects of cross-cultural communication, dialogue and democratic pluralism. Analysis of a classroom conversation about unrepaired levees in New Orleans and the media demonstrates the complexities that can arise when addressing race. Intercultural communication research has offered useful attention to these com...
Citations
... A contrasting instance of storytelling comes from the humanities in a journal of cultural studies of education (Simpson 2010). The article focuses on the values and challenges in enacting principles of 'critical pedagogy and cultural studies'. ...
... In addition, surrounded by other Erasmus students, it seems they will have ample opportunities to get involved in intercultural collaborations in class and interact with their international peers outside the classroom, talk across a range of diverse cultures and negotiate their particular identities. Student mobility seems to be an excellent opportunity for students to fully immerse in foreign cultures on a daily basis, negotiate meanings and make their ways in this new reality, or even to reinvent themselves (Simpson, 2008;Liddicoat & Scarino, 2013). Intercultural experience from study abroad should help students raise their capabilities for observation, tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty, and successful adaptation to new cultural settings, that is, for unfamiliar settings attributable to cultural context, equipping them for grasping, reasoning and behaving appropriately and effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity (Ang et al., 2007;Earley & Ang, 2003). ...
... Multiculturalism is seen as a Canadian success and part of Canadian identity (Simpson, James, and Mack 2011). It presents a way for Canadians and others to think of Canadian society in particular ways and projects multiculturalism as fact (Ng 1995;Simpson et al. 2011). ...
... Queer theory research thus requires a problematizing of the paradoxical relationality of 'the norm' (Kumashiro, 2003;Plummer & Stein, 1994;Simpson, 2012), constituting and constituted by 'the Queer' (Price, 2016;Yosef, 2004). The Queer is the anti-normal, and to claim a Queer identity is to claim (or perhaps, acknowledge) an anti-identity that is inconsistent, fluid and simply inclusive of any element if anti-normativity. ...
