TY - JOUR
T1 - Destabilizing anti-gay environments through gay-straight alliances: Possibilities and limitations through shifting discourses.
AU - Currie, Sean
AU - Mayberry, Maralee
AU - Chenneville, Tiffany
N1 - Currie, S., Mayberry, M., & Chenneville, T. (2012). Destabilizing anti-gay environments through gay-straight alliances: Possibilities and limitations through shifting discourses. The Clearing House, 85(2), 56-60. DOI: 10.1080/00098655.2011.611190
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Drawing upon research with Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) advisors, high-school principals, and two district-level administrators, we examine the potential and limits of the safe-space discourse that encompasses the aims of GSAs. We argue that this discourse conceals heteronormative school environments, which supplies the groundwork for hostility perpetrated against LGBT students. We then delineate three strategies- organizational, pedagogical, and systemic-toward altering the safe-space discourse to a forward-looking, social-justice discourse that fosters the eradication of heteronormative school processes.
AB - Drawing upon research with Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) advisors, high-school principals, and two district-level administrators, we examine the potential and limits of the safe-space discourse that encompasses the aims of GSAs. We argue that this discourse conceals heteronormative school environments, which supplies the groundwork for hostility perpetrated against LGBT students. We then delineate three strategies- organizational, pedagogical, and systemic-toward altering the safe-space discourse to a forward-looking, social-justice discourse that fosters the eradication of heteronormative school processes.
KW - Psychology
KW - Gay-Straight Alliances
KW - LGBT youth in schools
KW - School reform
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fac_publications/188
UR - https://login.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00098655.2011.611190
M3 - Article
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JF - Default journal
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