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irina Schmitt

Irina Schmitt

Senior lecturer

irina Schmitt

Förändring pågår! Förslag på förändringsarbete kring kön och könsidentitet i skolan - Bilaga 2

Change is happening! Proposals for change on gender and gender identity in schools - Appendix 2

Author

  • Irina Schmitt

Summary, in English

Being trans in different ways is not an emergency and does not have to be dramatic. Instead of reacting only in the moment, politicians, principals, teachers, counselors, nurses and other adults can create a school where fewer spontaneous solutions are needed because there is well thought-out pedagogical and administrative work, what is called the 'whole-of-school approach' (Bartholomaeus & Riggs, 2017a, 2017b; Brömdal et al., 2020). Doing this work is not optional, it is part of the school's mission to create a learning environment free from discrimination, and being prepared saves time and effort.
Based on the material from a study with 13 adolescents and young adults discussed in the article "'You really have to change the textbooks to change the society' - gender and gender identity in schools" in this report, material created by activists and advocacy organizations, and the international research, I suggest that schools can and need to change in several areas, and I structure the suggestions according to these areas.

Department/s

  • Department of Gender Studies

Publishing year

2022

Language

Swedish

Pages

1-10

Publication/Series

"Jag är inte ensam, det finns andra som jag". Rapport om unga hbtqi-personers levnadsvillkor

Document type

Report chapter

Publisher

Myndigheten för ungdoms- och civilsamhällesfrågor

Topic

  • Social Sciences
  • Gender Studies
  • Educational Sciences

Keywords

  • skola
  • trans
  • ickebinär
  • 'whole-of-school' arbete för genusrättvisa i skolan
  • kön
  • könsidentitet
  • intersektionalitet
  • cisnormativitet
  • Sverige
  • genus
  • school
  • trans
  • nonbinary
  • whole-of-school approach for gender justice in schools
  • gender
  • gender identity
  • Sweden
  • intersectionality
  • cisnormativity

Status

Published

Project

  • Young trans* and intersex peoples' experience of school