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Creating Equitable Education on Social Equity: Educating Taiwanese Older Adults' Attitudes toward Same-Sex Relationships through Contact Theory
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Te-Sheng Chang; Alexander MacDonald Haynes – Educational Gerontology, 2025
Curricula have historically overlooked non-heteronormative education for elderly populations. The purpose of this study was to assess attitude changes toward same-sex relationships among Taiwanese older adults before and after taking a curriculum focused on the lived experiences of same-sex partners. Seventy-six older adults from Hualien County,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Older Adults, Attitude Change
Wearing a Rainbow Bumper Sticker: Experiential Learning on Homophobia, Heteronormativity, and Heterosexual Privilege
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Nunn, Lisa M.; Bolt, Sophia C. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2015
College campuses are known to be heteronormative environments that often foster heterosexism and homophobia. There is a broad call for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) awareness-building curricula as one avenue for positive change in campus climates. This study interrogates the effects of an experiential learning activity…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Attitudes, Social Bias, College Environment
Predicting Homophobic Behavior among Heterosexual Youth: Domain General and Sexual Orientation-Specific Factors at the Individual and Contextual Level
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Poteat, V. Paul; DiGiovanni, Craig D.; Scheer, Jillian R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
As a form of bias-based harassment, homophobic behavior remains prominent in schools. Yet, little attention has been given to factors that underlie it, aside from bullying and sexual prejudice. Thus, we examined multiple domain general (empathy, perspective-taking, classroom respect norms) and sexual orientation-specific factors (sexual…
Descriptors: Bullying, Homosexuality, Empathy, Structural Equation Models
Teachers as Allies: Transformative Practices for Teaching DREAMers and Undocumented Students
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Wong, Shelley, Ed.; Gosnell, Elaisa Sánchez, Ed.; Luu, Anne Marie Foerster, Ed.; Dodson, Lori, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2017
Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. "Teachers as Allies" provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship
"You Have to Give Them a Place where They Feel Protected and Safe and Loved": The Views of Parents Who Have Gender-Variant Children and Adolescents
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Hill, Darryl B.; Menvielle, Edgardo – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2009
This study focused on the experiences of parents of gender-variant children and teens. The goal was to document issues faced by parents of kids with childhood gender-variant behaviors and/or gender-variant identity and to compile their wisdom. Telephone interviews were conducted with 43 parents of 31 youth (all who met the DSM criteria for Gender…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Homosexuality, Parent Attitudes, Children
Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons
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Quinn, Therese M., Ed.; Ploof, John, Ed.; Hochtritt, Lisa J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Art and Social Justice Education" offers inspiration and tools for educators to craft critical, meaningful, and transformative arts education curriculum and arts integration projects. The images, descriptive texts, essays, and resources are grounded within a clear social justice framework and linked to ideas about culture as commons. Essays and a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Art History, Critical Theory, Elementary Secondary Education