ACA -CCPA 2016 Conference & Expo

ID #130-Feminist Pedagogy and Intersectionality: Facilitating Ally Development in Counselors (Room 513B)

01 Apr 16
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Counselor Education, Divisions, LGBTQ Issues

Speaker(s): Holly Wagner, Assistant Professor, University of Missouri Saint Louis; Kirsten LaMantia, Assistant Professor, Southeast Missouri State University; Lynn Bohecker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Idaho Center for Health Research, Idaho State University

Counselor educators must aid students in developing competencies for counseling with transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, questioning, intersex, and ally (LGBTQQIA) individuals. This interactive session will highlight how counselor educators may use feminist pedagogy in the classroom to encourage ally development within students. The presenters will showcase how challenging traditional pedagogical methods while focusing on intersectionality facilitates essential LGBTQQIA awareness.