Böcker i Youth Development and Education Series-serien

Illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms and schools, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive; and providing adults who can act as mentors.

Explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviours can be not only instructive but productive. The focus of teachers' efforts, Eric Toshalis says, should not be about "managing" adolescents but about learning how to read their behaviour and respond to it in developmentally productive, culturally responsive, and democratically enriching ways.

Brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents' emerging identities, especially in relation to students' experience of and engagement with school.