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“He Wears Pink Leggings Almost Every Day, and a Pink Sweatshirt….” How School Social Workers Understand and Respond to Gender Variance

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Jong, Dirk
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This qualitative study, framed conceptually by notions from Queer theory and a practice model of “virtue ethics”, attempted to explore the perceptions, attitudes, and self-reported practices of a sample of school social workers in the Northeastern United States with respect to gender socialization and gender variance in the classroom. The data, collected through individual interviews, indicate that the social workers in this study seemed willing to support and to advocate for gender-variant students. However, there also appeared to be some misunderstandings about the nature of gender identity, analyzed in this article with particular reference to the notion of “homonormativity”. It is suggested that full engagement with gender-variant students requires more training, not only for social workers, but for other school personnel, and as part of professional pre-service programs.
Starting Page	247
Ending Page	255
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07380151
Journal	Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15732797
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-11-25
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Gender variance Transgender School social work Queer theory Homonormativity Personality and Social Psychology Clinical Psychology Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Work

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