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Greenland, Katy; Nunney, Rosalind – Pastoral Care in Education, 2008
Section 28 (part of the Local Government Act of 1988) was a notorious piece of legislation that sought to prevent local education authorities in the UK from "promoting homosexuality". The effect of Section 28 was to create uncertainty and fear among teachers as to what was (and what was not) permitted in schools. Over time practitioners…
Descriptors: School Districts, Foreign Countries, Local Government, Homosexuality
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Roberts, Bill – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2008
This small-scale piece of research was undertaken to examine, retrospectively, the experiences of 10 men, ages 27 through 53, in terms of what constitutes and influences homophobic bullying in the private and state school contexts in the United Kingdom. Using standpoint epistemology and a life histories method, the author investigates what is…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Educational Environment