Sexual Orientation, Social Justice and Teacher Education
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in South Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
- Vol. 23 (2), 195-205
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0311213950230206
Abstract
Social justice concerns in teacher education are commonly restricted to issues of race/ethnicity, class, gender, disability and geographic location. Sexual orientation, as a social justice issue, receives little or no attention in Australia despite evidence that gay, lesbian and bisexual students constitute a disadvantaged group in school systems. This paper makes the case for the inclusion of sexual orientation as a social justice issue in initial teacher education foundations curriculum, however, it is hypothesised that there is likely to be multi‐faceted resistance to this. Pairing the topics of gender and sexuality/sexual orientation is proposed as both a way of circumventing most of the resistance and achieving some useful outcomes. The paper concludes with a consideration of whose responsibility it is to act on this issue.Keywords
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