LGBTQ youth and education : policies and practices /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayo, Cris (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2022]
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.