While a number of recent studies have addressed the overall educational experiences of larger groups of gay and/or lesbian students within institutions of higher learning, there are no in-depth studies which address the experiences of a small number of gay men and/or lesbians who are students in programs of visual art. This comparative case study of two gay male students of visual art considers three primary questions: what are the ways in which individual subjectivities and cultural practices of white, gay, male artists inter-relate; what is the impact of each artist's cultural productions on the broader culture in which they are located; and, what are the experiences of each subject within the postsecondary visual art's program in which each was enrolled. Data was collected through formal interviews, participant-observation, and an examination of the art practices of each subject. This study draws on the contributions, and the inter-relationships, of feminist, postmodernist, and queer theory literatures. In response to the first primary question, this study identifies: a range of denominators by which the subjects name themselves; four categories by which affiliated communities might be identified; a strong positive relationship between individual subjectivities and the practices of art. Second, this study concludes that: public response to the art practices of dissident subjects may vary in terms of mediums and methods; the relationship between language and visual art is variant between the two artists but the embeddedness of language in visual art is recognized; the subjects hold opposing views with respect to the role of the art object within culture, but, in both cases, the art object is seen as being integral, positively or negatively, to individual identities; art is a means to cultural knowledge, that is, visual art may serve as a means of articulating various queered theoretical standpoints; and finally, that the possibilities of camp are a means by which queer identities may be articulated and constituted in visual art practices. In response to the third primary research question, this study concludes that: there is either a lack of gay or queer content matter and expertise, or a strong negative reaction against queer experience in the programs of visual art presently considered; and finally, that the university is a site of cultural practice which continues to be a major legitimizer of social authority. In general terms, with respect to epistemologies, research methodologies, and texts, a number of necessary adaptations emerge which reflect the unique experiences of queer researchers engaged in the production of social knowledges with queer subjects. The research findings suggest that the incorporation of the needs of queer students into the Academy and the Arts would prove valuable, not only to students who so define themselves, but, because different perspectives reflect different and expanded knowledges, would contribute to the learning/living experiences of all post-secondary students of visual art. Recommendations for further research include continuing inquiry which similarly considers the experiences of lesbians in visual arts programs, and for larger scale studies with gay and/or lesbian students which may provide alternate kinds of data.

Thesis (M.A. (Human Rights))--Mahidol University, 2007. / LICL has E-Thesis 0025 ; please contact computer services.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Melbourne, 2002. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 30, 2005). Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-363).

Higher education in South Africa is faced with a paramount task to help erode the social and structural inequalities that have been inherited from the Apartheid system (Department of Education 1997; Council on Higher Education 2000:12). The findings from the Soudien Report (2008:116-117) point out that the post-Apartheid higher education system in South Africa is characterised by various forms of discrimination and institutional cultures that marginalise some members of institutions resulting in pervasive feelings of alienation. In the South African higher education field, the concept of a “home” for all has been used by a variety of commentators to depict a vision of what transformed, inclusive higher education institutional cultures might look like. In this thesis, I interpret the experiences of residence life on the part of gay, lesbian and bisexual students on a largely residential campus. I ask how gay, lesbian and bisexual students experience being “at home” in the campus’s residence system. The thesis is based on 18 in-depth qualitative interviews with students who self-identify as gay/lesbian or bisexual who have experienced residence life on the campus for a period longer than six months. A wide literature exists on the concept of “home”. Drawing from many different disciplines including anthropology, history, philosophy, geography, psychology, architecture and sociology, I distil the essential features of “at homeness” as incorporating comfort, privacy, security, acceptance, companionship and community. The research was concerned to inquire into how central the idea of home is to human flourishing and then into how gay, lesbian and bisexual students are routinely denied many of the essential comforts associated with being “at home” that heterosexual students have the privilege of taking for granted.

While a number of recent studies have addressed the overall educational experiences of larger groups of gay and/or lesbian students within institutions of higher learning, there are no in-depth studies which address the experiences of a small number of gay men and/or lesbians who are students in programs of visual art. This comparative case study of two gay male students of visual art considers three primary questions: what are the ways in which individual subjectivities and cultural practices of white, gay, male artists inter-relate; what is the impact of each artist's cultural productions on the broader culture in which they are located; and, what are the experiences of each subject within the postsecondary visual art's program in which each was enrolled. Data was collected through formal interviews, participant-observation, and an examination of the art practices of each subject. This study draws on the contributions, and the inter-relationships, of feminist, postmodernist, and queer theory literatures. In response to the first primary question, this study identifies: a range of denominators by which the subjects name themselves; four categories by which affiliated communities might be identified; a strong positive relationship between individual subjectivities and the practices of art. Second, this study concludes that: public response to the art practices of dissident subjects may vary in terms of mediums and methods; the relationship between language and visual art is variant between the two artists but the embeddedness of language in visual art is recognized; the subjects hold opposing views with respect to the role of the art object within culture, but, in both cases, the art object is seen as being integral, positively or negatively, to individual identities; art is a means to cultural knowledge, that is, visual art may serve as a means of articulating various queered theoretical standpoints; and finally, that the possibilities of camp are a means by which queer identities may be articulated and constituted in visual art practices. In response to the third primary research question, this study concludes that: there is either a lack of gay or queer content matter and expertise, or a strong negative reaction against queer experience in the programs of visual art presently considered; and finally, that the university is a site of cultural practice which continues to be a major legitimizer of social authority. In general terms, with respect to epistemologies, research methodologies, and texts, a number of necessary adaptations emerge which reflect the unique experiences of queer researchers engaged in the production of social knowledges with queer subjects. The research findings suggest that the incorporation of the needs of queer students into the Academy and the Arts would prove valuable, not only to students who so define themselves, but, because different perspectives reflect different and expanded knowledges, would contribute to the learning/living experiences of all post-secondary students of visual art. Recommendations for further research include continuing inquiry which similarly considers the experiences of lesbians in visual arts programs, and for larger scale studies with gay and/or lesbian students which may provide alternate kinds of data. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

Currently in the United States there are more than 4 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in K-12 public schools (Bochenek, Brown, & Human Rights Watch, 2001). Despite the prevalence of LGBT youth and the diversification of family populations, teacher preparation programs rarely acknowledge "queer" aspects of multiculturalism (Letts, 2002). As a result, a majority of K-12 educators enter the field of teaching unwilling and/or unprepared to engage with queer issues as they relate to students and families, curriculum, and instruction. The culture of silence around homosexuality can put queer youth at risk and deter school stakeholders from addressing queer issues, the discussion of which can lead to deepened understanding, increased empathy, and social action. Employing critical social theory as a theoretical framework, this paper examines the promise of increased awareness about and use of queer-inclusive pedagogy and curriculum in pre-service teacher education. It is argued that such inclusion is necessary to counteract heterosexism in schools that reinforce gender norms and impart heteronormative values. Guided by interpretivist inquiry, the current multiple-case study describes how eight pre-service teachers encountered, made sense of, and responded to sexual and gender diversity in their K-8 field placements. Findings are presented in individual case descriptions followed by a cross-case synthesis and suggest that pre-service teachers came into direct and constant contact with queer issues. Participants' overwhelming desire to process and make sense of their encounters as a means of supporting students as well as negotiating their own personal sense of identity also emerged from the data. The implications of these findings for pre-service teacher education are discussed as is a proposed framework for queer inclusion and next steps for future research.

This two-part study included a content analysis of an AP art history text and a survey together with interviews with AP art history teachers that embraced both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. The first phase of the study examined one of the more popular art history survey texts in the AP art history program, Gardner’s Art through the Ages, in terms of how inclusive it is in addressing issues of sexual orientation and, particularly, same-sex perspectives. In addition, the text was examined for evidence of sexual orientation ignored – particularly same-sex perspectives ignored and for heteronormative hegemonies. The second phase investigated the understandings and opinions of AP art history teachers toward the inclusion of sexual orientation and same-sex perspectives in their curriculums and classrooms. Recent recognition of gay, lesbian, and same-sex perspectives in the study of art history has challenged art educators and art historians to begin to consider opening up their curriculums and writings to include these perspectives. These ignored perspectives produce important understandings that enrich and deepen the discourse of art history. The inclusion of gay and lesbian content and same-sex perspectives to the study of AP art history, not only effectively serves the needs of AP art history teachers, but it provides a more equitable and comprehensive visual arts education to students. The implications of this study are broad and complex. If students are to be well and comprehensively educated in the history of the visual arts, including discussions about the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian artists as well as artworks depicting same-sex perspectives is important. Similarly, their teachers must be well-informed and believe that including such material in the curriculum is important. There is definitely a need for designing more balanced and equitable AP art history programs that include gay and lesbian artists as well as same-sex perspectives. From a multicultural art education perspective, this study reveals that gays and lesbians are marginalized in a major AP art history survey text. It illuminates how an AP art history survey text and AP art history teachers’ attitudes and knowledge base on same-sex perspectives inform their curriculums, specifically concerning what’s important to teach in an AP art history classroom. If approved AP art history survey texts as well as the influential annual AP College Board art history exam included issues of sexual orientation, particularly same-sex perspectives, it would encourage more AP art history teachers to include gay and lesbian artists and same-sex perspectives in their curriculums.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-05-04T13:41:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Toledo.pdf: 1163696 bytes, checksum: b7b0bc974e503bde3f1de46b338ae23b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-05-04T13:41:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Toledo.pdf: 1163696 bytes, checksum: b7b0bc974e503bde3f1de46b338ae23b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-19 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The purpose of this research is to understand the concepts constructed by teachers who are gay about the multiple violence and prejudices experienced in relation to their sexual orientation and their expression approach types. To enable to comply with this, we seek to understand the historical constitution of heterosexism and homophobia in the Brazilian society. We have focused on studies that recall the trajectory of LGBTT movement and the various forms of expression of homophobia, focusing especially on their expressions in school. We also have reflected on the school as a powerful space for confronting homophobia and how this institution can eventually also become a space for violence Finally, the study also focused on understanding struggling strategies and homophobia conflict. Hence, four sessions of conversation were held with teachers who identified themselves as gays and who work in the basic education. The selection of the teachers who participated of the r4esearched was based on the "snowball" strategy, according to May's proposition, in which the first participant selected, which met the profile defined for the study (being a teacher who defined him/herself gay in public schools of basic education indicated a new entrant and so on. The analysis was done by Núcleos of Significação (Meaning Concept Cell). The research concluded that prejudice and discrimination against the LGBTT population, in most cases, result in situations in which these people are humiliated and / or beaten, initially because their expression of gender / sexuality is considered to be outside of the patterns of heteronormativity. This fact suggests that it is fundamental to face conservatism, which is expressed in practices that accentuate prejudice and violence addressed to the LGBTT population in the school environment. In this sense, when the school does not define itself politically against homophobic violence, it can become a space for the production of violence and a reaffirmation of the exclusions experienced by the school actors. We have realized that the daily school life has not been conducive for teachers who wish to have a practice committed to the transformation of reality to achieve it, especially when they are engaged in a work involving education related to gender relations and the fight against homophobia. We have concluded that the participants of this research as they were classified themselves as "good students" and having faced violence in the school during their initial school time and then as teachers, had to create tools and strategies by themselves to face the challenges presented by the their gender condition. It is important to emphasize that to overcome the difficulties experienced by the participants was only possible in the adult life and that they survived in school through the establishment of partnerships and supports (personal and institutional). Considering this scenario, such partnerships and supports were fundamental to the participants to remain in school as teachers, developing their work in a positive way. Thus, the results of this study suggest that it is essential that schools develop projects, together with social movements, to devote themselves to understand, discuss and accept differences in sexual orientation, so that these actions imply that students dropping out of school out by fear and / or discrimination, and building professional settings in which gay teachers also remain in school without violence / O propósito desta pesquisa é compreender as significações que professores gays constroem sobre as múltiplas violências e sobre os preconceitos vividos em relação à própria orientação sexual e suas formas de expressão. Para isso, buscamos compreender a constituição histórica do heterossexismo e da homofobia na sociedade brasileira. Debruçamo-­nos sobre os estudos que recontam a trajetória de lutas do movimento LGBTT e às diversas formas de expressão da homofobia, dedicando-­nos, especialmente, às suas expressões na escola. Refletimos, também, sobre a escola como um espaço potente para o enfrentamento da homofobia e como em alguns momentos essa instituição também pode se tornar um espaço de produção de violências. Por fim, o estudo também se dedicou a compreender estratégias de enfrentamento e combate à homofobia. Para isso, foram realizadas quatro sessões de conversação com professores que se autodeclaram gays e que atuavam na educação básica. A seleção dos professores participantes ocorreu pela estratégia “bola de neve”, segundo proposição de May, na qual o primeiro participante selecionado, e que atendia ao perfil definido para o estudo (ser professor que se autodeclara gay, em exercício em escolas públicas de educação básica) indicou um novo participante e assim sucessivamente. A análise foi feita por Núcleos de Significação. A pesquisa permitiu concluir que o preconceito e a discriminação contra a população LGBTT, na maioria das vezes, resultam em situações nas quais essas pessoas são humilhadas e/ou agredidas, inicialmente, por sua expressão de gênero/sexualidade considerada fora dos padrões de heteronormatividade. Esse fato sugere que é fundamental combater o conservadorismo, que se expressa em práticas que acentuam o preconceito e as violências direcionadas à população LGBTT no ambiente escolar. Dessa maneira, quando a escola não se posiciona politicamente contrária às violências homofóbicas, ela pode se tornar um espaço de produção de violências e de reafirmação das exclusões vividas pelos atores escolares. Apreendemos que o cotidiano escolar não tem sido propício para que os professores que pretendem ter uma prática comprometida com a transformação da realidade consigam empreende-­la, em especial quando se dedicam a um trabalho envolvendo a educação para as relações de gênero e para o combate à homofobia. Verificamos que os participantes desta pesquisa, ao terem se constituído como “bons alunos” e por terem enfrentado violências no espaço escolar durante sua escolarização inicial e depois como professores, tiveram que forjar sozinhos as ferramentas e as estratégias para enfrentar os desafios colocados em função da sua orientação sexual. É importante ressaltar que a superação das dificuldades vividas pelos participantes só se concretizou na vida adulta e que eles sobreviveram na escola por meio do estabelecimento de parcerias e apoios (pessoais e institucionais). Diante disso, tais parcerias e apoios mostraram-­se fundamentais para que os participantes conseguissem permanecer na escola, como professores, desenvolvendo seu trabalho de forma positiva. Sendo assim, os resultados deste estudo sugerem que é essencial que as escolas desenvolvam projetos, em parceria com os movimentos sociais, que se dediquem a compreender, discutir e acolher as diferenças de orientação sexual, de maneira que essas ações impliquem a prevenção da evasão de alunos e alunas LGBTT por medo e/ou discriminação e a construção de ambientes profissionais nos quais os professores gays também permaneçam nas escolas sem que sofram violências

This study focuses on the nature of university instructors' beliefs and attitudes toward gay and lesbian content in the university Gender course curriculum. It was intended to provide a better understanding of factors such as academic freedom, societal influences, personal opinions, curriculum, and institutional influences that might affect attitudes and thus undermine the inclusion of discussion about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issues. Participants in the study were seven instructors from the faculties of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, Applied Psychology, and Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, and the University of Lethbridge, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The study revealed that although there was only a slight diversity of beliefs and attitudes about the topic among the participants, a majority of them felt positively toward inclusion of information in the university curricula. the positive attitudes were expressed as a willingness to teach about the subject matter, and a belief that LGBT content should be integrated throughout the general curriculum. The implications and the challenges of incorporating LGBT issues into the curriculum were also discussed. Participants discuss that LGBT issues are not adequately represented in the curriculum, that there is a need for more public awareness and education about homosexuality, a need for greater inclusion of gay and lesbian issues in university programs, a desire for less marginalization of the LGBT topic, and a vow to provide more respect for LGBT persons. / ix, 173 leaves ; 29 cm.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--North Carolina State University, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 20, 2006). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199).