Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education (Haworth Series in Glbt Community & Youth Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560235241 ISBN 13: 9781560235248

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

JAMES T. SEARS is Professor of Education within the Graduate School at the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University where he teaches online courses in curriculum. He is the series editor for Greenwood's Handbooks for Educators and Parents.

Review

"This book takes a comparative approach to educational practices and policies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/queer topics." -- Warren J. Blumenfeld, EdD, Assistant Professor, Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University

"Wonderful... A must-read for education professionals and anyone interested in improving the school experience for LGBTQ young people." -- Craig Bowman, Executive Director, National Youth Advocacy Coalition, Washington, DC

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1560235241
• ISBN 13: 9781560235248
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Sears James T.