Including queer texts in the English curriculum has the potential to affect real social change, including in understanding and confronting inequalities.
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Public opinion polls and a survey of Australian youth show there’s little support for allowing schools to hire or fire teachers based on their sexual orientation.
Sexual equality should not be mere letters and words in laws. Rather, people - in this case student teachers - must understand sexual equality as a lived reality.
The Australian Christian Lobby’s Lyle Shelton said he was concerned about body modification, gender reassignment surgery and future suicide risk. We check the research.
About 80% of students experience some kind of gender-based bullying in their primary and high school years. But research shows that teachers often fail to intervene or are not equipped to deal with it.
The Australian curriculum is completely silent on the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersexed (LGBTQI) students and discusses sexuality only in terms of the biological.
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Associate Professor, The University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer in Education Law; Faculty of Education Sciences, North-West University
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Professor, School of Sociology, Australian National University
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Clinical sexologist, Gender team Stockholm, Centre for Andrology and Sexual Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
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Professor of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Gothenburg
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention, Griffith University
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Professor of Sociology and Social Research, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Sociology, Deakin University
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Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University Schools, University of Sydney