LGBTQ Youth and Education – Policies and Practices by Mayo, Cris; Banks, James A.;

Short description:

Essential reading for educators and other school community members who are navigating the increasingly complicated laws and legal rulings related to LGBTQ students, employees, and community members. The book combines historical, contemporary, theoretical, and practical information.

Long description:

This second edition is essential reading for educators and other school community members who are navigating the increasingly complicated laws and legal rulings related to LGBTQ students, employees, and community members. It combines historical, contemporary, theoretical, and practical information to help educators address exclusionary practices in schools related to gender identity, sexuality, racism, sexism, and other forms of bias that shape student experiences. To enable educators to better understand their obligations to students in relation to policy, staff training, daily school climate, pedagogy, and curriculum, the author has extensively revised this popular text to include updated information on the impact of same-sex marriage legalization and increasing federal recognition of transgender student rights. And because the legal terrain regarding transgender youth has been especially volatile, Mayo provides strategies educators can use to maintain ethical trans-inclusive teaching, even when local regulations appear to impede transgender inclusivity.

Book Features:

• An examination of the pedagogical, curricular, and policy changes that can improve school experiences for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) and ally students.
• A new chapter on gender identity and transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive student experiences.
• Current policy and legal information, data, and justification for LGBTQ-equitable and inclusive teaching.

Table of Contents:

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• Contents
• Series Foreword James A. Banks ix
• Acknowledgments xv
• Introduction 1
• Necessary Tensions 5
• Layers of Responsibility and Professional Resources for Nondiscrimination 9
• Students' Rights to Expression, Privacy, and Association 13
• Preparing Teachers and Leaders to Be Advocates 16
• 1. Background to LGBTQ Movements for Equality With a Focus on K–12-Related Issues 19
• Key Definitions, Often in Flux and Contested 22
• Opening the Subject of Sexuality and Gender Through Theory, History, and Political Movements 24
• Overlapping Histories of LGBTQ Movements 27
• Schools and the Histories of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation 34
• 2. Thinking Through Biases and Assumptions About LGBTQ People 37
• Gender as Process 37
• Sexuality, Normalcy, and Intersecting Differences 41
• Transphobia in Schools 46
• Queer Relationalities 49
• 3. Specific School-Related Challenges Facing LGBTQ Students 52
• Intersecting Harassments and Biases 53
• LGBTQ Youth and the Challenges of Accessing Education 56
• Resituating ""Bullying"" in Sexual Harassment 57
• Another Form of ""Not"" Education: ""You Can't Say Gay"" Policies 60
• Recognizing Family Diversity: LGBTQ-Headed Households and School Exclusion 62
• Living in Families Under Public Debate: Legal and Social Contexts 64
• 4. Educatively Addressing LGBTQ Issues 66
• Zero Tolerance and Exacerbating Distance 66
• Sex and Non-Sex 71
• Critical Queer Thinking and Queer Disciplines 73
• Religious Tensions 77
• Teaching and Learning for Ethical Relations 79
• 5. Supporting Student Extracurricular and Creative Efforts to Educate Schools on LGBTQ Issues 83
• Gay-Straight Alliances/Gender and Sexuality Alliances and Associations Across Difference 83
• Gay-Straight Alliances and the Equal Access Act 86
• Attempts to Restrict Gay-Straight Alliances 88
• The Day of Silence: Resistance and Reconciliation (Hopefully) 90
• LGBTQ Youth and Public Spaces 92
• 6. Recognizing and Respecting Transgender Students 95
• Learning About Gender 96
• Anti-Transgender Rules From the School Board 100
• Administrator Refusal of Family and Physician-Supported Affirmation 101
• Watching Teachers Debate Transgender Issues 102
• Transgender Students' Resistance and Resourcefulness 104
• Intersections and Transgender Theory 107
• Conclusion: Unsettled Progress 111
• References 113
• Index 127
• About the Author 137