Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies, and Practices

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Understand the challenges from the voices involvedtoday’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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents 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 Chapter 2. What I Would Have Liked My Teachers to Know Chapter 3. On Being “Queer” Chapter 4. Commentaries Chapter 5. Authors’ Reactions Reflections on Being Gay in Japan and China Chapter 6. Difficulties Japanese Gay Youth Encounter Chapter 7. Growing Up Gay in China Chapter 8. Commentaries Chapter 9. Authors’ Reactions SECTION II: RESEARCH AND POLICY Chapter 10. School Experiences of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth How Many GLBT Youth Are There? GLBT Youth of Color Education Policy Issues 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 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 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 Transgender College Students 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 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 Methods Results Discussion Chapter 16. Describing Roles That Gay-Straight Alliances Play in Schools: From Individual Support to School Change 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 Racial Segregation Normalization of Whiteness Developing an Awareness of the Relationship Between Contexts and Participation Denormalizing Whiteness Index