Understanding Agency Beyond School Sanctioned Activities

Autor/in	Blackburn, Mollie V.
Titel	Understanding Agency Beyond School Sanctioned Activities
Quelle	In: Theory Into Practice, 43 (2004) 2, S.102-110 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-5841
Schlagwörter	Social Change; Youth; Homosexuality; Student Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Homosexualität; Studienerfahrung
Abstract	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. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10