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ERIC Number: EJ1256974
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1936-1653
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Heterosexual Students' Accounts of Teachers as Perpetrators "and" Recipients of Homophobia
Allen, Louisa
Journal of LGBT Youth, v17 n3 p260-279 2020
This paper is concerned with how teachers manage homophobia at school. It examines how they deal with homophobia directed at students, "and" instances when teachers become the recipients of homophobia themselves. This dual focus, on teachers as both the perpetrators and recipients of homophobia, adds complexity to existing studies concerning how homophobia operates in schools. In previous studies, it has been LGBTIQA+ teachers who have provided accounts of homophobia they have experienced. In this research, "heterosexual students" offer these narratives. Via these accounts, students acknowledge and corroborate teachers' voices in other studies. Students' depictions also reveal nuances in homophobia's operation and that "heterosexual" teachers can sometimes be its target. In existing literature, LGBTIQA+ students typically provide narratives about whether teachers are effective at addressing homophobia. In the current study, heterosexual students deliver these accounts, confirming their LGBTIQA+ peers' assessment that teachers often ignore homophobia or respond ineffectually. When heterosexual students identify homophobia, they lift the burden for acknowledging and addressing this discrimination from the LGBTIQA+ community. Retelling incidents in this way, recognizes homophobia is not the sole responsibility of individual perpetrators and recipients, but an issue that implicates the whole school and its culture.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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