LGBTQI Parented Families and Schools

Exploring the experiences of LGBTQI+ parents and their children and their relationship with schools, this book illuminates how these families work with schools, and how schools do, or do not, support children of LGBTQI parents.

Anna Carlile is Senior Lecturer in Inclusive Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Carrie Paechter is Professor of Education and Director of the Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

- Introduction - Ideologies of parenting and schooling: visibility, invisibility and alternative family forms - Media representations of LGBTQI+ parented families - LGBTQI+ parented families and their visibility/invisibility in school policies - LGBTQI+ parents' perspectives on their children's schools - Experiences of children of LGBTQI+ parents at school - Usualising' LGBTQI+ people and issues in schools: the Educate & Celebrate approach to creating school change - Conclusion: ways forward for LGBTQI+ parented families and schools