Overview
LGBTQ Voices in Education: Changing the Culture of Schoolingaddresses the ways in which teachers can meet the needs of LGBTQ students and improve the culture surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity issues in formal learning environments. Written by experts from a variety of backgrounds including educational foundations, leadership, cultural studies, literacy, criminology, theology, media assessment, and more, these chapters are designed to help educators find the inspiration and support they need to become allies and advocates of queer students, whose safety, well-being, and academic performance are regularly and often systemically threatened. Emphasizing socially just curricula, supportive school climates, and transformative educational practices, this innovative book is applicable to K-12, college-level, and graduate settings, and beyond.
- | Author: Veronica Bloomfield, Marni E. Fisher
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 226 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1138187097
- | ISBN-13: 9781138187092
