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Gay and Lesbian Literature Disrupting the Heteronormative Space of the High School English Classroom
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Direct linkHelmer, Kirsten – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
This paper offers insights into how the teaching of queer topics in English language arts classes can be reframed by bridging the goals, practices and conceptual tools of queer theory to literacy teaching. Drawing on an ethnographic classroom study, which explored a 13-week high school Gay and Lesbian Literature course, this paper discusses how…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Language Arts, English Instruction, High Schools
Horn, Staccy S. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
This study investigated tenth- and twelfth-grade adolescents' (N less than or equal to 264) judgments about the acceptability of same-sex peers who varied in terms of their sexual orientation (straight, gay or lesbian) and their conformity to gender conventions or norms in regard to appearance and mannerisms or activity. Overall, the results of…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Adolescents, Sexual Orientation, Norms
