Acting Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism

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Title

Acting Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism

Abstract/Description

In this volume, teachers from urban, suburban, and rural districts join together in a teacher-inquiry group to challenge homophobia and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning environments for all students they address key topics, including seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether to come out in the classroom, using LGBTQ-inclusive texts, running a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing district policy to protect LGBTQ teachers and students, dealing with resistant students, and preparing preservice teachers to do antihomophobia work. Book Features: Examples of antihomophobia teaching across elementary, secondary, and university contexts, and discussions of the consequences of this work. Concrete discussions of how to start a teacher-inquiry group, and the challenges and rewards of engaging in teacher activism. A comprehensive annotated bibliography of texts that address homophobia and heterosexism.

Author/creator

Blackburn, Mollie V.

Clark, Caroline T.

Kenney, Lauren M.

Smith, Jill M.

Date

2009

Publisher

Teachers College Press

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Textbook

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en No

ISBN

978-0-8077-5031-5

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Teachers College Press)

Citation

Blackburn, M. V., Clark, C. T., Kenney, L. M., & Smith, J. M. (2009). Acting Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism. Teachers College Press.

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Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

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