What do people think? What does the research say?
Bullying. No way! talks with the following school communities, champions, practitioners and researchers.
A secondary school in a semi rural zone has been using drama and discussion to challenge homophobia.
Students, staff and carers in an urban secondary school community speak out about homophobic behaviour and the damage it does to everyone.
Zach Douglas, 2007 Big Brother finalist.
Baden Phillips and Julianne Campbell are educators who conducted, through Working It Out (WIO), a pilot of the six week program, Pride and Prejudice, in urban and rural Tasmanian high schools.
Wayne Martino is a researcher whose field of interest is schooling and masculinity with a particular focus on homophobia, boys and critical literacy.Martin Mills is a researcher whose fields of interest include School restructuring, Schools and violence, Education and social justice, Pre-service teacher education, and Gender and education.
Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is a researcher whose professional life has spanned secondary teaching, writing, researching, lecturing and consulting in issues such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and social justice in education and health.
Research and other links
Same Sex Attracted Youth (SSAY) website
The SSAY website is provided by the Australian Research Centre in Sex Health
and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University, Victoria. SSAY reports on current
research and how the research is being used to bring about change, particularly
to reduce homophobia. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/
Whatever Happened to Duty of Care? Same-sex attracted young people’s
stories of schooling and violence (1999) (update in press)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/assets/downloads/...care.pdf
Writing Themselves In: A National Report on the Health & Wellbeing of Same Sex Attracted Youth (1998)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/assets/downloads/WTI%20community
%20report%20master.pdf
Writing Themselves In Again - 6 years on: the 2nd national
report on the sexuality, health and well-being of same sex attracted young
Australians (2005)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/ssay/assets/downloads/
writing_themselves_in_again.pdf
School Violence and Its Antecedents: Interviews with high school students
(2005) http://www.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/.../R56.pdf
Take-home lessons for gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual school
students.(2005)
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00006401/01/6401.pdf
This article examines state and federal laws that provide protection to students
who are perceived to be gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual (GLTB).
Talking OUT
An information bulletin for teachers, from the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender
and Intersex Issues in Education Reference Group. Published by Learning Services, Department
of Education, Tasmania
http://www.education.tas.gov.au/school/educators/health/inclusive/
gender/support/talking_out_newsletter
Stories of discrimination experienced by the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex community (2007).
A paper prepared by Australia's Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC).
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/gay_lesbian/stories.html
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