Gay-Straight Alliance Advisors: Negotiating Multiple Ecological Systems when Advocating for LGBTQ Youth

Autor/inn/en	Watson, Laurel B.; Varjas, Kris; Meyers, Joel; Graybill, Emily C.
Titel	Gay-Straight Alliance Advisors: Negotiating Multiple Ecological Systems when Advocating for LGBTQ Youth
Quelle	In: Journal of LGBT Youth, 7 (2010) 2, S.100-128 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1936-1653
Schlagwörter	Homosexuality; Social Attitudes; Consciousness Raising; Advocacy; Educational Environment; Sexual Orientation; Interviews; Barriers; Social Bias; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Faculty Advisers; Parent Influence; Public Policy; Community Resources; Administrator Attitudes; School Personnel; Negative Attitudes; Student Attitudes; School Policy; Educational Resources; Knowledge Level; Individual Characteristics; Experience; High School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Homosexualität; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Bewusstseinsbildung; Sozialanwaltschaft; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Sexuelle Orientierung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Öffentliche Ordnung; Schulpersonal; Negative Fixierung; Schülerverhalten; Schulpolitik; Bildungsmittel; Wissensbasis; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Erfahrung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	This qualitative study investigated the barriers and facilitators that advisors of gay-straight alliances encounter when advocating for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) youth within schools. Twenty-two advisors were interviewed, and data revealed that multiple ecological systems (e.g., sociocultural, school, and individual factors) interacted to create barriers and facilitators to advocacy for LGBTQ youth. Results suggested an ecological systems perspective to advocacy in which advisors exist in multiple ecological systems simultaneously. An understanding of how these systems interact to create barriers and facilitators to advocacy may assist advisors in effectively working within these systems in order to create significant, lasting change in schools. (Contains 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10