Overview
- Features stories of real teachers working in Australian schools, allowing readers to connect with the research and to reflect on their own experience either conducting research or teaching
- Captures the experiences of maintaining motivation and compassion as advocates in the face of resistance
- Embraces critical theory as a lens through which heteronormativity and homophobia can be understood
Part of the book series: Queer Studies and Education (QSTED)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores how to help teachers become better advocates for sexual orientation equality in secondary schools. Examining this issue through the lens of qualitative emancipatory action research, a group of Australian teachers embarked on a journey of teacher advocacy. Critical theory has long highlighted teachers as key players in either challenging dominant social narratives, or else perpetuating oppressive systems of power through traditional forms of education. Despite this important role, the life stories of teachers, which contributed to the development of their beliefs and behaviours about sexual orientation are rarely considered in the development of anti-discriminatory policy, designing the curriculum and most importantly, in teacher training. This book suggests and frames a model for advocacy, whereby teachers engage with their personal beliefs about sexual orientation, with their role as a teacher, and commit to advocacy through action by promoting student safety, challenging heteronormative narratives and role modelling compassionate behaviours in their school environments.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthew Holt is Senior Research Advisor at the Behavioural Insights Team, UK. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he conducted the research detailed in this book for his PhD thesis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexual Orientation Equality in Schools
Book Subtitle: Teacher Advocacy and Action Research
Authors: Matthew Holt
Series Title: Queer Studies and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65143-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65142-8Published: 10 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65145-9Published: 10 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65143-5Published: 09 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2274
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 238
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender and Education, Gender and Sexuality, Self and Identity, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education