Assn./Childhood Education Int.
"Unleashing the unpopular"; talking about sexual orientation and gender diversity in education.
Twenty-one Canadian and American educators, counselors, gay activists, and artists contribute 27 narratives, personal essays, and poems exploring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual (LGBT) issues in the classroom. Coverage includes trends in jurisprudence concerning students filing suit against schools that have failed to protect them; a collection of children's responses documenting the frequency and vehemence of homophobic insults in schools; issues, aspects, and challenges of deciding whether or not to come out; and educators' accounts of their successes and failures in implementing LGBT issues in the classroom and/or school community, including strategies for introducing, supporting, and engaging students in dialogue, advocacy, and arts-based activities. No subject index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
