Recent legal, social, and policy shifts in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people are causing educators and education researchers to address LGBTQ issues with a sense of legitimacy and urgency. In recent years, 91涩漫’s journals have examined many aspects of LGBTQ+ education.
The following compendium of open-access articles includes 91涩漫 journal content on LGBTQ issues published since 1999. This page will be updated as new articles are published.
Note: Articles are listed below in reverse chronological order of publication.
Catherine Lammert, Vickie C. Godfrey 91涩漫 Open, October 2023 Researchers found that topic-restrictive legislation can influence classroom practice even when teachers do not share the ideology behind such legislation.
Harper B. Keenan Educational Researcher, July 2022 This article asks the question, how can education researchers design methodologies that avoid reinforcing the structures and epistemologies that have done harm to trans people?
Melinda M. Mangin Educational Researcher, July 2022. This qualitative study examines elementary teachers’ strategies for supporting trans and/or gender-expansive elementary students.
Melinda M. Mangin, Harper B. Keenan, Elizabeth J. Meyer, Mollie T. McQuillan, Mario I. Su谩rez, Lee Iskander Educational Researcher, July 2022 This special issue of Educational Researcher focuses on trans studies—and trans justice—in K–12 education and the critical need for this emergent field in education research. The introduction to the special issue argues that education research can and must play a pivotal part in creating and fostering equitable systems and inclusive educational spaces for students and employees of all gender identities, not just for those who are cisgender.
Mollie T. McQuillan Educational Researcher, July 2022. This content analysis describes the design of administrative guidance using a representative sample of 112 Illinois districts: the who, what, how, and why of supporting transgender students.
Elizabeth J. Meyer Educational Researcher, July 2022 This article argues that by drawing from transgender studies and epistemologies, education researchers can move toward more liberatory scholarship and educational practices.
Mario I. Su谩rez, Mollie T. McQuillan, Harper B. Keenan, Lee Iskander Educational Researcher, July 2022. This brief describes the demographic characteristics of a non-random sample of 296 trans PK–12 school workers (i.e., teachers, administrators, staff) in the United States and Canada and reports their workplace experiences and the structural and social supports for trans employees compared to trans students.
Luis A. Leyva, R. Taylor McNeill, B R. Balmer, Brittany L. Marshall, V. Elizabeth King, Zander D. Alley American Educational Research Journal, May 2022. Researchers found that curricular erasure and within-group peer tensions shaped variation in undergraduate Black queer students’ STEM experiences of invisibility.
Gary N. Siperstein, Staci C. Ballard, Holly E. Jacobs, Jason Rodriquez, Timothy P. Shriver Educational Researcher, May 2022. This study explored how students give meaning to inclusive behavior at school and the conditions that support inclusive behavior.
Amy Vetter, Beverly S. Faircloth, Kimberly K. Hewitt, Laura M. Gonzalez, Ye He, Marcia L. Rock Review of Educational Research, January 2022. This literature review examined how RPPs in the United States have addressed equity and justice in their work.
Nolan L. Cabrera, Alex K. Karaman, Tracy Ar谩mbula Ballysingh, Yadira G. Oregon, Eliaquin A. Gonell, Jameson D. Lopez, Regina Deil-Amen Review of Educational Research, November 2021. Researchers reviewed 153 pieces of scholarship from 1999 to 2019 using an intersectional and critical content analysis approach to understand trends in how research on the underrepresentation and underperformance of men of color relative to women of color within institutions of higher education has been conducted.
Karly S. Ford, Kelly O. Rosinger, Junghee Choi, Gabriel Pulido Educational Researcher, March 2021. This brief examined how many postsecondary datasets collect gender data in ways that are not inclusive of trans students.
Salvatore Ioverno, Dawn DeLay, Carol Lynn Martin, Laura D. Hanish Educational Researcher, October 2020. This study examined whether bullies’ gender conformity, pressure to conform to gender norms, and experiences of homophobic name-calling are associated with a tendency to bully gender conforming victims and gender non-conforming victims.
Suzanne E. Eckes Educational Researcher, July 2020. This study examined a 2020 lawsuit that involves a public school teacher who refused to address transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns in class because of his religious beliefs.
Joseph R. Cimpian, Jennifer D. Timmer 91涩漫 Open, November 2019. Researchers found that potentially mischievous responders inflate LGBQ-heterosexual disparities, do so more among boys than girls, and affect academic, disciplinary, psychological, and health outcomes differentially.
Bryce E. Hughes American Educational Research Journal, September 2019. Researchers found that faculty, staff, and students at a Jesuit, Catholic university employed a variety of tactics adapted for the Catholic higher education context.
Brittney L. Beck American Educational Research Journal, January 2019. The findings of the study illuminated the quieter role faculty and staff in higher education played in sustaining the civil rights and human dignities of queer people at UF during a time when students’ activism had lost momentum.
Angela Harris, Zeus Leonardo Review of Research in Education, April 2018. This study unpacks intersectionality as an analytical framework.
Ed Brockenbrough Educational Researcher, December 2017. This book review argues that LGBTQ Issues in Education: Advancing a Research Agenda makes important contributions to research efforts on transforming the homophobic and transphobic exigencies of schooling.
Joseph R. Cimpian Educational Researcher, December 2017. This study illustrates how researchers can detect and correct classification errors of sexual minority youths and it discusses how piecewise attempts to address bias can sometimes unintentionally exacerbate other forms of bias.
Joel Mittleman Educational Researcher, January 2018. The study author found that sexual minorities continue to face high rates of discipline than their peers.
V. Paul Poteat, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Jerel P. Calzo, Stephen T. Russell,Stacey Horn Educational Researcher, December 2017. This special issue of Educational Researcher focuses on pressing issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, student-led roups known as Gay-Straight Alliances, classification bias, and intersectionality.
Joseph R. Cimpian, Carolyn D. Herrington Educational Researcher, December 2017. This special issue of Educational Researcher focuses on pressing issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, student-led roups known as Gay-Straight Alliances, classification bias, and intersectionality.
Bettina L. Love Educational Researcher, December 2017. This study expolores the utilization of the theory of a Black ratchet imagination as a methodological perspective to examine the multiple intersectiosn of Black and queer identity constructions within the space of hip hop.
Cris Mayo Educational Researcher, December 2017. Study author addresses complication to how different disciplines define, study, and theorize sexuality, gender, gender identity, and other intersecting categories of subjectivity, like age, race, class, ethnicity, and so on.
William G. Tierney, James Dean Ward Educational Researcher, December 2017. Study authors examine the literature on LGBT and homeless students and explore the intersection of these communities.
V. Paul Poteat, Nicholas C. Heck, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Jerel P. Calzo American Educational Research Journal, October 2013. Study authors identified individual and structural predictors of greater engagement in Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) settings with a cross-sectional sample of 295 youth in 33 GSAs from the 2014 Massachusetts GSA Network Survey.
J.B. Mayo, Jr. Educational Researcher, June 2013. The author concludes that pedagogical practices play a key role in creaing a long-term Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), where engaged student learning combined with activism promote a "third space" in teacher development.
Bullying Explains Only Part of LGBTQ-Heterosexual Risk Disparities: Implications for Policy and Practice Joseph P. Robinson, Dorothy L. Espelage Educational Researcher, November 2012. The extent to which LGBTQ youths’ higher rates of victimization can explain these youths’ greater rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and unexcused absences from school is explored in this article, with the authors finding that policies aimed at simply reducing bullying may not be effective.
Kristen A. Renn Educational Researcher, March 2010. In this article, the author provides an overview of existing literature addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and queer issues in higher education.
Suzanne E. Eckes, Martha M. McCarthy American Educational Research Journal, May 2008. This article analyzes all litigation pertaining to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (GLBT) public school educators and antidiscrimination statutory provisions in all 50 states to contribute to an understanding of the role that legal requirements play in protecting GLBT public employees.
Nina Asher Educational Researcher, March 2007. The author discusses the challenges of educating teachers to engage, rather than deny or repress, differences that emerge at the dynamic, context-specific intersections of race, culture, gender, and sexuality.
Cris Mayo Review of Research in Education, March 2007. This chapter will first briefly examine general trends and shifts in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and queer educational research in the past two decades, then will turn to a discussion of the place of coming out in LGBT and queer research in educational foundations.
Colleen Capper Educational Researcher, June 1999. This paper considers the possibilities for research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender school administrators and for the broader study of queerness in schools as organizations.
Read open-access articles from the Educational Researcher Special Issue: Trans Studies in K-12 Education.
Brief 3: Bullying and Peer Victimization Among Vulnerable Populations Research on bullying dynamics shows that bullying is often aimed at specific groups. Findings from three groups have become prominent in the research literature: children with disabilities, African American youth, and LGBTQ youth. Prevention of Bullying in Schools, Colleges and Universities, 2013
To celebrate Pride Month and to honor the work being done by education researchers on LGBTQ issues and education, this series of videos spotlights scholars and their research, the inspiration for their work, and advice for aspiring scholars.
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