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Sexual Diversity and Public Schools in Canada and the United States
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Preface
Yet again, I have prepared an APSA paper that is much too long, and my apologies go first to discussants on the panel at which this will be presented. As in past presentations, this is not really a conference paper, but a rather wide-ranging survey of the current state of affairs in Canada and the U.S., descriptively daunting because of the extent of variation across regions and localities, and because of the range of issues to cover under the rubric of public schooling. It constitutes a draft of what will become one of three major substantive chapters in a book I am preparing that compares Canadian and American developments on sexual diversity issues. This is still very much a draft (with very rough referencing), and needs work. I am very much aware of how difficult it is to acquire a solidly based overview of schooling developments in any part of North America, and realize how tentative my judgements have to be – especially as a relative neophyte to this area. As a result, comments are very very welcome.
Acknowledgements
The long term project from which this paper has emerged has received major funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, supplemented by funds provided by the Department of Political Science, University College, and the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto. Over several years, I have received very able research assistance from Nicole Anastasopoulos, Gina Cosentino, Sebastien Dallaire, Patrick Houssais, Juan Marsiaj, Karen Murray, Julie Simmons, Dagmar Soenneken, Joerg Wittenbrinck, and Ruben Zaiotti. For a variety of assistance on other fronts, I am indebted to Joe Boyle, Piet Defraeye, Terry Farley, Jo Godfrey, Paul Perron, and especially Gerald Hunt.
Abstract
A comparative survey of activist mobilizing to secure recognition of sexual diversity in Canadian and American public school systems, and of the extent to which public policy and schooling practice have responded. Until the 1990s, only scattered jurisdictions effected any significant change, often starting with “safe schools” measures. Such change, and particularly in the area of anti-gay bullying, appears more widespread in the U.S. than Canada, not at all the pattern in other sexual diversity issues. Differences arise from religious, cultural, and institutional factors, and from Canadian-American contrasts in the extent to which sexual diversity provokes high stakes debates over other issues. As on all sexual diversity fronts, dramatic variation persists across U.S. regions.
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Preface
Yet again, I have prepared an APSA paper that is much too long, and my apologies go first to
discussants on the panel at which this will be presented. As in past presentations, this is not
really a conference paper, but a rather wide-ranging survey of the current state of affairs in
Canada and the U.S., descriptively daunting because of the extent of variation across regions and
localities, and because of the range of issues to cover under the rubric of public schooling. It
constitutes a draft of what will become one of three major substantive chapters in a book I am
preparing that compares Canadian and American developments on sexual diversity issues. This
is still very much a draft (with very rough referencing), and needs work. I am very much aware
of how difficult it is to acquire a solidly based overview of schooling developments in any part of
North America, and realize how tentative my judgements have to be – especially as a relative
neophyte to this area. As a result, comments are very very welcome.
Acknowledgements
The long term project from which this paper has emerged has received major funding from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, supplemented by funds provided
by the Department of Political Science, University College, and the Faculty of Arts and Science,
University of Toronto. Over several years, I have received very able research assistance from
Nicole Anastasopoulos, Gina Cosentino, Sebastien Dallaire, Patrick Houssais, Juan Marsiaj,
Karen Murray, Julie Simmons, Dagmar Soenneken, Joerg Wittenbrinck, and Ruben Zaiotti. For
a variety of assistance on other fronts, I am indebted to Joe Boyle, Piet Defraeye, Terry Farley, Jo
Godfrey, Paul Perron, and especially Gerald Hunt.
Abstract
A comparative survey of activist mobilizing to secure recognition of sexual diversity in Canadian
and American public school systems, and of the extent to which public policy and schooling
practice have responded. Until the 1990s, only scattered jurisdictions effected any significant
change, often starting with “safe schools” measures. Such change, and particularly in the area of
anti-gay bullying, appears more widespread in the U.S. than Canada, not at all the pattern in other
sexual diversity issues. Differences arise from religious, cultural, and institutional factors, and
from Canadian-American contrasts in the extent to which sexual diversity provokes high stakes
debates over other issues. As on all sexual diversity fronts, dramatic variation persists across
U.S. regions.
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