Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: A Closer Examination of Youth Participation and Well-being
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SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) are a recent development in Canadian schools. These student-led clubs aim to promote positive youth development. They, and the recent legislation enabling them, are controversial. There is a need for research on the roles and effects of GSAs. This proposed research will examine the benefits of youth participation in Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) in the Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB) district. This project will examine the role of GSAs on students’ well-being, and on school and home relationships; examine the diversity of sexual and gender minorities and ethno-minorities attending the clubs ('inclusiveness'); compare gender and sexual minority students’ experiences with bullying and victimization between those attending GSAs and students in schools without GSAs. In order to answer the questions we will collect quantitative data using surveys and then conduct focus group and individual interviews. We aim to recruit a total of 100 youth participants who are Sexual and Gender Minorities (SGM) from 4 junior and senior high schools in the Edmonton district with existing GSAs and 4 junior and senior high schools in the Edmonton district with no existing GSAs.
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Subject/Keywords
1990-2017
Gay
Discrimination
Pansexual
Grant Application
Sexual and Gender Minority
Genderism
Non-Binary
Educational Psychology
Inclusivity
Social Inclusion
Home
Intersex
Questioning
Biphobia
Senior School
Empowerment
Self-Determination
Successful SSHRC
Transphobia
LGBTQ2
Family
Two-Spirit
SGM
Youth Wellbeing
Insight Development Grant
Queer
Edmonton
EPSB
Canada
High School
LGBTQ
2018
Junior School
Trans
Bullying
Social Processes
Social Development and Welfare
Friends
Self-Identity
Edmonton Public School Board District
Youth Participation
Gay-Straight Alliances
Youth
Friendship
Asexual
GSA
Hetereosexism
Relationships
School Policies
Transgender
Homophobia
Bisexual
PFLAG
Lesbian
IDG
Safe Schools
Peers
Gay
Discrimination
Pansexual
Grant Application
Sexual and Gender Minority
Genderism
Non-Binary
Educational Psychology
Inclusivity
Social Inclusion
Home
Intersex
Questioning
Biphobia
Senior School
Empowerment
Self-Determination
Successful SSHRC
Transphobia
LGBTQ2
Family
Two-Spirit
SGM
Youth Wellbeing
Insight Development Grant
Queer
Edmonton
EPSB
Canada
High School
LGBTQ
2018
Junior School
Trans
Bullying
Social Processes
Social Development and Welfare
Friends
Self-Identity
Edmonton Public School Board District
Youth Participation
Gay-Straight Alliances
Youth
Friendship
Asexual
GSA
Hetereosexism
Relationships
School Policies
Transgender
Homophobia
Bisexual
PFLAG
Lesbian
IDG
Safe Schools
Peers
Language
en
Location
Canada
Alberta
Alberta
Time Period
2018-2020