Rainbow students’ experiences in New Zealand’s vocational education system: do they feel safe, included and supported? DOI Creative Commons
Lee Smith, Helen Gremillion, Rachael Burke

et al.

Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

Existing international and national research on rainbow students' experiences in tertiary education focuses primarily universities; such within polytechnics is rarer. This study explores how safe, welcoming, inclusive 14 polytechnic campuses are for students New Zealand. The article reports student perspectives the topic, drawn from responses to open-field online survey questions. Two hundred fifty-six completed survey, a subset of these participants responded questions (there were varying numbers per question). An inductive thematic analysis data was then undertaken. Roughly equal reported negative campus (e.g. bullying, discrimination, cis-heteronormative 'humour', snide remarks, misgendering deadnaming) as feeling included, welcomed like 'normal' student. Strategies suggested creating more included installing gender-neutral toilets, integrating sexual gender diversity institutional policies, processes, teaching practices. There variation reporting regarding safety inclusivity Zealand campuses. Although participants' suggestions improvement instructive, they may be difficult implement Zealand's current climate political conservatism.

Language: Английский

Anti-racism, Heterosexism, and Transphobia DOI
Idia B. Thurston, Rebecca L. Fix, Elizabeth Getzoff Testa

et al.

Pediatric Clinics of North America, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 71(4), P. 745 - 760

Published: May 30, 2024

Language: Английский

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Rainbow students’ experiences in New Zealand’s vocational education system: do they feel safe, included and supported? DOI Creative Commons
Lee Smith, Helen Gremillion, Rachael Burke

et al.

Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

Existing international and national research on rainbow students' experiences in tertiary education focuses primarily universities; such within polytechnics is rarer. This study explores how safe, welcoming, inclusive 14 polytechnic campuses are for students New Zealand. The article reports student perspectives the topic, drawn from responses to open-field online survey questions. Two hundred fifty-six completed survey, a subset of these participants responded questions (there were varying numbers per question). An inductive thematic analysis data was then undertaken. Roughly equal reported negative campus (e.g. bullying, discrimination, cis-heteronormative 'humour', snide remarks, misgendering deadnaming) as feeling included, welcomed like 'normal' student. Strategies suggested creating more included installing gender-neutral toilets, integrating sexual gender diversity institutional policies, processes, teaching practices. There variation reporting regarding safety inclusivity Zealand campuses. Although participants' suggestions improvement instructive, they may be difficult implement Zealand's current climate political conservatism.

Language: Английский

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