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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Speaking the Unspeakable in Forbidden Places: Addressing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality in the Primary School
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Allan, Alexandra; Atkinson, Elizabeth; Brace, Elizabeth; DePalma, Renee; Hemingway, Judy – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2008
The present paper interrogates the ways in which school is produced as a particular bounded place (or collection of places) where sexuality, and particularly non-heterosexuality, is carefully policed by these boundaries. Drawing upon data generated in primary schools during a nationwide action research project ("No Outsiders"), we focus on three…
Descriptors: Action Research, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Elementary Schools
The Sound of Silence: Talking about Sexual Orientation and Schooling
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DePalma, Renee; Atkinson, Elizabeth – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2006
This paper arises from an online discussion project in the United Kingdom, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, in which higher education students and staff were invited to respond to a series of statements about sexual orientation in the context of schooling. This paper suggests that the silence of relative non-participation may have been…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Sexual Orientation, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality