In celebration of Pride Week this month, the OISE Library is featuring a selection of materials on LGBT inclusive education. Help address homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and bullying in your classroom with this collection of teacher resources, juvenile fiction, and scholarly books. Material in the book display cabinet on the ground floor explore sexual orientation and sexual expression-based discrimination at school. Many of the selected titles seek to provide guidelines for educators wishing to build safe, inclusive classroom environments.
A handful of titles also discuss the administrative challenges of implementing LGBT inclusive policies. Works like Macgillivray (2004) and Vaccaro, August, and Kennedy (2012) explain some of the major issues and strategies involved in creating LGBT inclusive school policies in reluctant school communities.
Resources like Webber (2010) provide an entry point for teachers looking for LGBT and questioning materials for their classroom. This helpful resource describes more than 300 award winning works of fiction, drama, poetry, graphic novels and films.
Everything in the book display cabinet can be borrowed. Please inquire at the service desk on the ground floor.