- Phuong's Reflections
- Teachers as Changing Agents
- Moral Education
- Sand, Brink and Seeds
- Education for Citizenship
- The principles and practice of teaching and class management
- Second Thoughts about Democratic Classrooms
- The Other Side of Inclusion
- Learning or Unlearning Racism
- The Victimization of LGB Youth
- Multicultural
- Education Toward a Culture of Peace
- Becoming a Professional
- Teachers as Changing Agents
- LL's Reflections
- Why Teachers Must Become Change Agents
- Moral Education and the Need for Teacher Preparation
- Sands, bricks, and seeds: School change strategies and readiness for reform
- Educating for Citizenship in Canada
- Class Management from the Side of Teaching
- Democratic Classrooms: Promises and Challenges of Student Voice and Choice
- Learning in an Inclusive Community
- Breaking the Cycle of Racism in the Classroom
- Victimization of LGB
- Equity
- Psychological Needs
- Becoming a Professional
- Why Teachers Must Become Change Agents
- Mike's Thoughts
- Jeremys stuff
“Chapter 6 Understanding the Impacts of the School Environment”
This article/chapter was informative as it was information I knew at heart but did not necessary think about in regards to sexual harassment or harassment on sexual orientation. Bullying is an issue that has been present in schools for ever. At times I became a victim of being bullied as I was designated with having a learning disability and as a child I was hounded for being the “dumb kid”. The bullying seemed to stop when the students realized I was still the same person. I grew up in a town of 400 people and was bussed to a neighbouring community for school with the school population being approximately 500 students. None of which were homosexual or later realized they were homosexual so any bulling or harassment of any students were due to other reasons. The high school I attended had about 700 students. We had one homosexual student in our population and he got along with everyone, which now seems strange that he did not appear to have any type of conflict with any group within the school. As in this article, my community was a small farming community with traditionally what would be classified traditional morals and values but Ryan was just another guy at school. Looking back I don’t recall having any issue with Ryan’s sexual orientation. In reflection my memories of his sexuality were that he was one less guy that I had to compete against to impress girls. I believe that the author is correct in that one way to reduce conflict is to have student alliances and more teacher involvement. I believe that higher involvement with teachers and students will reduce all harassment.
Jeremy Lawson
This article/chapter was informative as it was information I knew at heart but did not necessary think about in regards to sexual harassment or harassment on sexual orientation. Bullying is an issue that has been present in schools for ever. At times I became a victim of being bullied as I was designated with having a learning disability and as a child I was hounded for being the “dumb kid”. The bullying seemed to stop when the students realized I was still the same person. I grew up in a town of 400 people and was bussed to a neighbouring community for school with the school population being approximately 500 students. None of which were homosexual or later realized they were homosexual so any bulling or harassment of any students were due to other reasons. The high school I attended had about 700 students. We had one homosexual student in our population and he got along with everyone, which now seems strange that he did not appear to have any type of conflict with any group within the school. As in this article, my community was a small farming community with traditionally what would be classified traditional morals and values but Ryan was just another guy at school. Looking back I don’t recall having any issue with Ryan’s sexual orientation. In reflection my memories of his sexuality were that he was one less guy that I had to compete against to impress girls. I believe that the author is correct in that one way to reduce conflict is to have student alliances and more teacher involvement. I believe that higher involvement with teachers and students will reduce all harassment.
Jeremy Lawson