LGBTQ youth and education : policies and practices /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Teachers College Press,
[2022]
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
| Series: | Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Necessary tensions
- Layers of responsibility and professional sources for justification for nondiscrimination
- Students' rights to expression, privacy, and association
- Preparing teachers and leaders to be advocates
- 1. Background to LGBTQ movements for equality with a focus on K-12 related issues
- Key definitions, often in flux and contested
- Opening the subject of sexuality and gender through theory, history, and political movements
- Overlapping histories of LGBTQ movements
- Schools and the histories of gender identity and sexual orientation
- 2. Thinking through biases and assumptions about LGBTQ people
- Gender as process
- Sexuality, normalcy, and intersecting differences
- Transphobia in schools
- Queer relationalities
- 3. Specific school-related challenges facing LGBTQ students
- Intersecting harassments and biases
- LGBTQ youth and the challenges of accessing education
- Resituating "bullying" in sexual harassment
- Another form of "not" education: "you can't say gay" policies
- Recognizing family diversity: LGBTQ-headed households and school exclusion
- Living in families under public debate: legal and social contexts
- 4. Educatively addressing LGBTQ issues
- Zero tolerance and exacerbating distance
- Sex and non-sex
- Critical queer thinking and queer disciplines
- Religious tensions
- Teaching and learning for ethical relations
- 5. Supporting student extracurricular and creative efforts to educate schools on LGBTQ issues
- Gay-straight alliances/gender and sexuality alliances and associations across difference
- Gay-straight alliances and the Equal Access Act
- Attempts to restrict gay-straight alliances
- The day of silence: resistance and reconciliation (hopefully)
- LGBTQ youth and public spaces
- 6. Recognizing and respecting transgender students
- Learning about gender
- Anti-transgender rules from the school board
- Administrator refusal of family and physician-supported affirmation
- Watching teachers debate transgender issues
- Transgender students' resistence and resourcefulness
- Intersections and transgender theory
- Conclusion: Unsettled progress.