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Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Beyond the Mainstream

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Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools

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Tiffany Jones responds to the key ideas in the previous two chapters in section 1 on the theme of gender, sexuality and belonging in education. She relates these chapters’ central ideas of transformation through assimilative and alternative education spaces to her own personal experiences of sexuality, gender and belonging in educational spaces and her recent research on the belonging and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) students. She discusses the value of pedagogy and policy, activism and direct coverage, and online education sites as strategies for promoting the belonging and student wellbeing of LGBTI young people. She also examines the extent to which such strategies could impact on the problem of education drop-out among LGBTI students.

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    For example, the Facebook page ‘Stop the Safe Schools Coalition’.

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Jones, T. (2018). Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Beyond the Mainstream. In: Halse, C. (eds) Interrogating Belonging for Young People in Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75217-4_4

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