By Tiffany Jones
This publication addresses coverage learn on homophobic and transphobic bullying in faculties. It covers quantitative and qualitative learn into coverage affects for homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex scholars. It attracts on a large-scale Australian research of the affects of alternative varieties of coverage on the nationwide, kingdom, area and faculty point. The research covers over eighty regulations, interviews with key coverage informants and survey information from 3,134 GLBTIQ scholars. when you consider that new guidance have been published via UNESCO, homophobic and transphobic bullying in colleges has develop into a key niche around the globe. there was a lot strain on academic management to have interaction with those matters because the UN published foreign human rights laws on sexual orientation and gender id that experience implications for pupil rights. The publication provides statistically major correlations among particular different types of kingdom and college point schooling rules that explicitly named homophobia/ GLBTIQ pupil concerns, and reduced prevalence of homophobic bullying, decreased danger of suicide and self-harm for those scholars. It comprises tales from coverage makers on how the rules got here to be (through court cases, ministerial inquiries and political activism), all the way through to the tales of scholars themselves and the way they separately felt the affects of rules or coverage lacks. foreign contexts of homophobic and transphobic bullying are mentioned, in addition to fresh transnational paintings during this box. The ebook considers the different sorts of collaborations which can result in extra coverage improvement, the transferability of the examine and a few of the advantages and issues of transnational coverage adoptions.
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In Foucault’s ‘Rule of immanence’ there is no exteriority between ‘techniques of knowledge and strategies of discourse’ (Foucault, 1976, p. 98) – conceivability of sexuality education discourses in policy on GLBTIQs is now both established and destabilised enough that such policies constitute researchable objects, and are a ‘local center’ for power-knowledge on GLBTIQ students that cannot be cast simplistically as a purely repressive force. However, due to the ‘Rule of double conditioning’, productive mechanisms in any ‘local center’ (policy) enter into some overall strategy (Foucault, 1976, pp.
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Maldon, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Chapter 2 GLBTIQ Students; What’s the Problem? Paul (gay male, 17yrs, Western Australia) has been called ‘a fucking disgusting faggot’ at his government school. ’ He suffered cyber-bullying, written abuse, graffiti and rumours. At 12yrs old he was exiting the school when other students ‘dragged me off to the nearby park where they punched me and kicked me and beat me merciless with planks of wood. After they had finished they left me in a pool of my own blood and I literally had to crawl home where I was lucky I had gotten home before anyone else so I could clean myself up.