Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies, and Practices » (1st Edition)

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 youth programs, policies, and practices around the world. Leading international educators and scholars examine personal experiences of LGBT youth, cutting-edge programs, and research first presented in the international Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education. Dynamic and thought-provoking, this insightful book brings together ideas and a vision vital for the future of today’s LGBT youth.

Invaluable for educators, counselors, graduate and undergraduate students, and LGBT youth alike, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education is readily accessible and easy-to-read, yet still provides in-depth, multidimensional examinations of the LGBT youth programs and practices essential for the propagation of social tolerance, acceptance, and safety of our youth. The LGBT youth voices sing clear their views about the urgent need for programs and policies within educational resources to challenge the present dominant intolerant thinking. The editor presents cogent essays that reveal the complex issues of the educational programs and practices, while offering strategies and hope for societal change. The book strives for the ultimate goal of reaching LGBT acceptance within society, to move beyond simple toleration toward becoming completely equal regardless of sexual identity.

Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education explores:

• transgender college students
  
• bullying and homophobia
  
• research on LGBT studies in education
  
• teaching elementary preservice teachers
  
• multicultural school-based programs for HIV education serving transgender youth
  
• successes and deficiencies of gay-straight alliances
  
• race and youth programs in urban high schools
  
• growing up lesbian in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States
  
• growing up gay in Japan and China

Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education is an essential exploration of LGBT issues and an excellent educational tool for educators, undergraduate and graduate students, counselors, social workers, LGBT youth, and for any professional working with LGBT youth.

About the Editor

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

SECTION I: YOUTH VOICES

REFLECTIONS ON GROWING UP LESBIAN IN NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, AND THE UNITED

STATES

Chapter 1. My Story (Rachel Bromley)

Chapter 2. What I Would Have Liked My Teachers to Know (Madelaine Imber)

Chapter 3. On Being "Queer" (Maayan-Rahel Simon)

Chapter 4. Commentaries (Mary Lou Rasmussen, Ronni Sanlo, Jan M. Goodman,

and de O Carroll)

Chapter 5. Authors Reactions (Madelaine Imber, Maayan-Rahel Simon, and

Rachel Bromley)

REFLECTIONS ON BEING GAY IN JAPAN AND CHINA

Chapter 6. Difficulties Japanese Gay Youth Encounter (Akihiko Komiya and

Keiko Ofuji (Translator)

Chapter 7. Growing Up Gay in China (Rodge Q. Fann)

Chapter 8. Commentaries (Kevin Jennings, Kathleen Quinlivan, Peter

Dankmeijer, William F. Pinar, and Keith Goddard)

Chapter 9. Authors Reactions (Rodge Q. Fann and Akihiko Komiya)

SECTION II: RESEARCH AND POLICY

Chapter 10. School Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender

Youth (Sarah E. Holmes and Sean Cahill)

How Many GLBT Youth Are There?

GLBT Youth of Color

Educational Policies Affecting GLBT Students

Anti-GLBT Harassment and Violence in the Nation s Schools

Children of GLBT Parents in Schools

Strength and Resiliency of GLBT Students

Conclusion

Chapter 11. The Research Terrain: A Brief Overview of the Historical

Framework for LGBTQ Studies in Education (Laura A. Szalacha)

School Climate

LGBTQ Educational Research and Scholarship

Queer Theories

Chapter 12. Bullying and Homophobia in Canadian Schools: The Politics of

Policies, Programs, and Educational Leadership (Gerald Walton)

Bullying As Political

"Safety" for Some, but Not for All

A Call for Leadership in Schools

SECTION III: PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES

Chapter 13. Serving the Needs of Transgendered College Students (Brett

Beemyn)

A Note on Language

Trans-Sexology

Transgender in College

Institutional Support for Transgender Students

Conclusion

Chapter 14. It s Elementary in Appalachia: Helping Prospective Teachers and

Their Students Understand Sexuality and Gender (Patti Capel Swartz)

Challenging Teachers in Appalachia

Confronting Prejudice in the Classroom

Writing Through Homophobia

Connecting Oppressions

Parents and Families

Challenging Dominant Thinking

Heterosexual Teachers Responsibilities

Pedagogical and Personal Struggles

Chapter 15. A School-Based Program to Improve Life Skills and to Prevent

HIV Infection in Multicultural Transgendered Youth in Hawaii (P. Jayne Bopp

and Timothy R. Juday)

Methods

Results

Discussion

Chapter 16. Describing Roles That Gay-Straight Alliances Play in Schools:

From Individual Support to School Change (Pat Griffin, Camille Lee, Jeffrey

Waugh, and Chad Beyer)

Setting, Participants, Data Collection, and Analysis

Roles GSAs Play in Schools

Discussion

Chapter 17. Some Challenges Facing Queer Youth Programs in Urban High

Schools: Racial Segregation and Denormalizing Whiteness (Lance McCready)

Racial Segregation

Normalization of Whiteness

Developing an Awareness of the Relationship Between Contexts and

Participation

Denormalizing Whiteness

Index

Reference Notes Included