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Junkala, Hannele; Berge, Maria; Silfver, Eva – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Shortcomings in sex and relationship education (SRE) related to norms and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexuality (LGBTQIA) perspectives have been reported internationally and in Sweden. This paper reports on findings from a critical study of SRE content in Swedish biology textbooks for 13- to 16-year-old pupils, with the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Biology, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Young, Sara Lewis-Bernstein – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2010
The purpose of this critical ethnographic study is to provide an account from within a public school of some of the ways that heterosexist discourses and silences are reproduced and challenged. As a classroom teacher and critical ethnographer, I conducted this research with straight-identified high school students as they came to understand,…
Descriptors: School Culture, Ethnography, High School Students, Homosexuality
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Birkett, Michelle; Espelage, Dorothy L.; Koenig, Brian – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students (LGB) and those questioning their sexual orientation are often at great risk for negative outcomes like depression, suicidality, drug use, and school difficulties (Elliot and Kilpatrick, How to Stop Bullying, A KIDSCAPE Guide to Training, 1994; Mufoz-Plaza et al., High Sch J 85:52-63, 2002; Treadway and Yoakam,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Drug Use, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality