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9781560235248
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. 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. This book addresses the issues surrounding 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; and growing up gay in Japan and China.Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies, and Practices (Haworth Series in Glbt Community & Youth Studies), 1 was published 2005 under ISBN 9781560235248 and ISBN 1560235241.
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