Gay, lesbian, and transgender issues in education : programs, policies, and practices /

Understand the challenges from the voices involved?today's LGBT youth AND the leading educators and scholars in the field!Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education presents LGBT youth issues through the words of the adolescents themselves, along with clear up-to-date essays about LGBT y...

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Other Authors: Sears, James T. 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Harrington Park Press, ©2005.
Series:Haworth series in GLBT community and youth studies.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • My story / Rachel Bromley
  • What I would have liked my teachers to know / Madelaine Imber
  • On being "queer" / Maayan-Rahel Simon
  • Commentaries / Mary Lou Rasmussen [and others]
  • Authors' reactions / Madelaine Imber, Maayan-Rahel Simon, Rachel Bromley
  • Difficulties Japanese gay youth encounter / Akihiko Komiya ; Keiko Ofuji (translator)
  • Growing up gay in China / Rodge Q. Fann
  • Commentaries / Kevin Jennings [and others]
  • Authors' reactions / Rodge Q. Fann, Akihiko Komiya
  • School experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth / Sarah E. Holmes, Sean Cahill
  • The research terrain : a brief overview of the historical framework for LGBTQ studies in education / Laura A. Szalacha
  • Bullying and homophobia in Canadian schools: the politics of policies, programs, and educational leadership / Gerald Walton
  • Serving the needs of transgender college students / Brett Beemyn
  • It's elementary in Appalachia: helping prospective teachers and their students understand sexuality and gender / Patti Capel Swartz
  • A school-based program to improve life skills and to prevent HIV infection in multicultural transgendered youth in Hawaii / P. Jayne Bopp, Timothy R. Juday, Cloudia W. Charters
  • Describing roles that gay-straight alliances play in schools: from individual support to school change / Pat Griffin ... [and others]
  • Some challenges facing queer youth programs in urban high schools: racial segregation and denormalizing whiteness / Lance Trevor McCready.