The Implementation of the Right to Education and LGBT People: First Attempts to Monitor, Analyze, Advocate and Cooperate to Improve the Quality of Schools

Autor/innen

  • Peter Dankmeijer

Schlagwörter:

LGBT-discrimination, Monitoring, International Strategy, Non-Profit Organisations, Global Alliance for LGBT Education

Abstract

In the past 4 years, a new international interest has arisen to combat bullying and discrimination of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bixual, Transgender and Intersex) people in the education sector. This article describes how this interest arose, and some experiences of the Global Alliance for LGBT Education in monitoring the implementation of the Right to Education for LGBT people, to analyze results and how to use the results to advocate and cooperate for a better quality of schools. The article describes a monitoring instrument and experiences with strategic workshops to analyze monitoring results and developing follow-up strategies including cooperation between LGBTI grass roots organizations, the education sector and governments.

Autor/innen-Biografie

  • Peter Dankmeijer
    Peter Dankmeijer (1957) was trained as a teacher, but works now as senior consultant on gay and lesbian issues, especially in the areas of training and education, HIV/AIDS prevention, empowerment of grass roots organizations and consultancy for municipal policies. Dankmeijer is a recognized expert on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) in education. on He is director of GALE (Global Alliance for LGBT Education, a network of educators on sexual diversity) and of EduDivers (Dutch expertise centre on sexual diversity in education). Dankmeijer has published extensively on these areas; a full list of publications can be found on http://www.edudivers.nl/over_ons/medewerkers/peter_dankmeijer/publicaties_peter_dankmeijer

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Dankmeijer, P. (2014). The Implementation of the Right to Education and LGBT People: First Attempts to Monitor, Analyze, Advocate and Cooperate to Improve the Quality of Schools. Zeitschrift für Inklusion, 3. https://inklusion-online.net/index.php/inklusion-online/article/view/234