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Conducting Activist, Collaborative Research: Sustained Teacher Inquiry on Sexual Identity and Gender Expression in Schools

Sat, April 9, 8:15 to 9:45am, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Two, Marquis Salon 7

Session Type: Symposium

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Young people in schools continue to suffer hostility based on non-heteronormative sexual identity and gender expression, limiting their access to educational attainment and well-being in schools. Research suggests that access to social, curricular, and adult support can significantly change this situation and make things better for these students, and all students. Nonetheless, many adults in schools insist that they cannot, or will not, make these changes. This panel of teachers and researchers shares research they have conducted within the context of a long-term teacher inquiry group aimed at understanding how LGBTQQ families and students experience schools in ways that are supportive or not, and why some adults feel able to do this work while others do not.

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