Policy and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Students

Acknowledgements.- Glossary.- Symbols & Abbreviations.- Chapter One: Why is Policy Presumed Powerful?- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Why a Policy Book?- 1.2.1 A policy push.-1.2.2 Presuppositions around policy's power.- 1.3 What this Book Covers.- 1.3.1 How the 'GLBTIQ' acronym is used.- 1.3.2 How 'sexuality' and 'sexuality education' are used.- 1.3.3 Why secondary schooling?- 1.4 What is Policy, Anyway?- 1.4.1 Policy and power.- 1.4.2 Policy as discursive.- 1.4.3 Discourse and power.- 1.5 Conclusion.- Chapter Two: GLBTIQ Students; What's the Problem?- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.11 Research on GLBTIQ students.- 2.12 Research gaps.- 2.2 'GLBTIQ Student' Constructions are Discursive.- 2.3 Discourse Exemplars.- 2.4 Orientation-based Sexuality Education Discourse Exemplar.- 2.4.1 Conservative.- 2.4.2 Liberal.- 2.4.3 Critical.- 2.4.4 Post-modern.- 2.5 Conclusion.- Chapter Three: Studying Policy Impacts.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Methodology: Critical Discourse Analysis.- 3.1.1 Adaptation of CDA.- 3.1.2 Post-modern approach to description stage.- 3.1.3 Both core and innovative techniques.- 3.3 Research procedures.- 3.3.1 Data sources and collection methods.- 3.3.2 Source One: policies - textual analysis.- 3.3.3 Source Two: key informant interviews.- 3.3.4 Source Three: survey data - quantitative and qualitative analysis.- 3.4 Data analysis.- 3.4.1 Leximancer analysis of policy documents.- 3.4.2 Fairclough's 10 CDA questions.- 3.4.3 Visual CDA techniques.- 3.4.4 Fairclough's analysis of discursive practices.- 3.5 Ethical considerations.- 3.6 Conclusion.- Chapter Four: How do Australian Policies Treat GLBTIQ Students?- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Mapping the policy terrain - overview of the corpus.- 4.2.1 National policies: inclusion in principle.- 4.2.2 The policy states of the nation.- 4.2.3 Conclusions about policydiscourses.- 4.3 Constructions of GLBTIQ students in key policies.- 4.3.1 National: part of the general diversity.- 4.3.2 NSW: Protected victims,

"From her work with UNESCO, Dr Tiffany Jones is qualified to write with authority about GLBTIQ policy. The book's promise to problematize the power of policy provides a much needed perspective on international and Australian GLBTIQ policy, interrogating the assumption that GLBTIQ policy is an unquestioned good. The topic is clearly timely and the international focus is important given the contemporary and widely varying discourses and actions surrounding the rights of GLBTIQ individuals and groups across the globe. The use of Australian as a particular case study is also wise as moving between the general to the particular can be daunting without some sort of specific grounding in geographical context. Australia provides that grounding so that Dr. Jones can move her examination of policy across the international through Australia to particular schools and individuals. In contested social issues and conditions, such as those surrounding issues of GLBTIQ rights and sexuality education, the chance to hear the voices of those for whom policy is intended is the most powerful. This book will appeal to both policymakers and academics."

Professor Kathleen M. Brown
Professor of Educational Leadership, UNC School of Education









"This book is a very exciting and important project that examines extensively the policy issues surrounding GLBTIQ policy issues, and a very thorough study of policy efficacy. It will appeal to university professors, researchers who study policy or GLBTIQ issues, policy analysts, international scholars, law-makers. I'm very impressed. I look forward to buying thebook!"

Professor Charol Shakeshaft
Professor and Chair of the Department of Education Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University