Understanding Agency Beyond School Sanctioned Activities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4256180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mollie V Blackburn (0000-0002-9128-9406, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 102-110 |
| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Into Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5841 • E-ISSN: 1527-2532 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15430421tip4302_2 |
| OpenAlex | W1977466918 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article reviews literature that portrays lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students both as victims of heterosexism and homophobia as well as agents, or ones who exert power, for change in schools. It complicates this literature by focusing on three youth who deal with the oppressions they experience in quite different ways and in ways that are not always sanctioned by schools. It challenges educators to recognize and value this agency. It asserts that it is not the job of educators to increase young people's agency. Rather, it is the job of educators to tap into students' agency for the good of the students, and to create school communities that allow students to be themselves and work for social change
Agency (philosophy · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression · Education Discipline and Inequality · Psychology
Students’ Perspectives on LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum
A Call to Explicitly Name and Account for Power in Epistemic Agency Research
Homophobia and sexuality diversity in South African schools
Teaching Queer‐Inclusive English Language Arts
Moving Beyond the Inclusion of LGBT‐Themed Literature in English Language Arts Classrooms
Gay-Straight Alliances
Risky, Generous, Gender Work
Changing childhoods
The Reduction of Stigma in Schools
People need support and society needs change’
Oh my word; for us African gays it’s another story.’ revealing the intersections between race, same sex-sexuality and schooling in South Africa
Gay and bisexual male youth as educator activists and cultural workers
She has a real connection with them”
Identification Without Intervention
Troubling the discourse of the victimization of queer youth in Icelandic and South African education
Countering heteronormativity and cisnormativity in Australian schools
Voices of Queer Youth in Urban Schools
Queering the (Ab)Normalization of Gender, (Hetero)Sexuality and Schooling in South Africa
Implementing an Ally Development Model to Promote Safer Schools for LGB Youth
| Citations per year | 0.9 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |