CUCINA (LA) E PASTICCERIA (LA) - (LABORATORIO DI SERVIZI ENOGASTRONOMICI - SETTORE CUCINA) - ALMA - PLAN EDIZIONI

SCIENZA E CULTURA DELL'ALIMENTAZIONE - ARTICOLAZIONE ENOGASTRONOMIA - OPZIONE PRODOTTI DOLCIARI ARTIGIANALI E I. (SCIENZA E CULTURA DELL'ALIMENTAZIONE) - ALMA - PLAN EDIZIONI

PERCORSI DI CUCINA E PASTICCERIA BIENNIO - (LABORATORIO DI SERVIZI ENOGASTRONOMICI - SETTORE CUCINA) - ALMA - PLAN EDIZIONI

British children’s diverse experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identities in their families, communities, personal lives and schools were explored by researchers, practitioners, interest groups, policy makers and young people. They came together over 18 months until May 2007 and this book tells the stories that emerged.

The narrative and analysis opens a new arena for those working with children and presents: new ways of conceptualizing and overcoming homophobia and transphobia in educational settings; ideas about how to translate policy supporting sexualities equality into the experiences of children and their families; the voices of young LGBT people on their own experiences of childhood; and fresh insights for people who work with children and may not have considered the importance and implications of sexualities equality for children’s lives.

Contributors include Mark Jennett, author of Stand Up For Us, British government guidelines on challenging homophobia in schools; Stephen Whittle, trans activist and professor of equalities law; members of Lesbian and Gay Youth Manchester; members of the No Outsiders research team challenging homophobia in primary schools; Sue Sanders, co-chair of Schools Out and teacher David Watkins.

This is an important book for anyone living or working with children: parents, teachers, community workers, voluntary workers, and all those brought under the broad scope of children's services across the UK, and equivalent services elsewhere. It brings together the voices of people from many sectors that realize the urgency of addressing issues of sexualities equality as early as possible in young children's lives.

This book is a celebration of recognition, affirmation and inclusion. Primary teachers tell the story of how they have challenged the taken-for-granted norms and silences in primary schools around sexual orientation and gender expression. These norms and silences have left lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families marginalized, unrepresented and subject to multiple discrimination and have allowed embedded homophobia and transphobia to go largely unchallenged.

Through their accounts of practice, reflections and interpretations, vignettes and images, the teachers describe how they have challenged this non-addressed area of inclusion across England, from a tiny village church school to urban and suburban settings. Working within and beyond the curriculum, teachers have broken boundaries in primary practice for sexualities in a struggle for greater equality.

The teachers who contributed to this book are all members of the No Outsiders project team which has made worldwide news and attracted the attention of practitioners and policy makers at local and national level. The book shows how it is not only through planned innovations and policy developments that change happens but also, and crucially, through the day-to-day moments where new thinking leads to new action for equality and social justice.

With its thought-provoking examples of good practice, lists of resources and examples of children’s work, this is an essential book for teachers, teacher trainers, policymakers and equalities activists. It is a companion book to the academic analysis of the project team’s work presented in Interrogating Heteronormativity in Primary Schools, also published by Trentham.

The Civil Partnership Act (2006), the Equality Act (2007) and various legislative requirements for ensuring the active promotion of child wellbeing, gender equality and community cohesion all place demands on schools and support services which they are ill-equipped to meet. This book examines how we might go about addressing these demands.