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Thalia Van Wichelen; Emma Verhoeven; Priscilla Hau – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
In June 2021, a member of the Belgian conservative political party (N-VA) sparked online controversy regarding inclusive sexuality education by criticising the Genderbread Person, an educational tool used to explain gender identity and sexual orientation. This study analyses the notion of childhood innocence in online debate about the Genderbread…
Descriptors: Social Media, Inclusion, Sex Education, Sexual Orientation
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Meiners, Erica R. – Harvard Educational Review, 2017
In this essay Erica R. Meiners argues that those committed to dismantling our nation's deep and racialized investments in policing and imprisoning must analyze how the flexible category of "the child," and its figurative powers, operate in complex ways to punish communities and naturalize and expand criminalization and surveillance.…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Disproportionate Representation
Anhalt, Karla; Magalhães, Cristina L.; Klotz, Mary Beth – Communique, 2015
This article provides an overview of the joint "Resolution on Gender and Sexual Orientation Diversity in Children and Adolescents in Schools" that was adopted by the American Psychological Association's (APA) Council of Representatives (CoR) and the National Association of School Psychologists' (NASP) Leadership Assembly during the…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Homosexuality
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Scharrón-del Río, María R.; Dragowski, Eliza A.; Phillips, James J. – School Psychology Forum, 2014
In the past 10 years, gender-variant (GV) children (children who do not conform to traditional gender norms) have received increased attention from scholars, mental health practitioners, and popular media. In schools, these students have been shown to be particularly vulnerable to violence and harassment, leading to myriad negative…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, At Risk Students