Education and homophobia

International Conference, "Education and homophobia, a form of discrimination in the educational system: overview, actions, and intermediaries of action"

Besancon, France, June 15-17, 2010

Critical situations of malaise, stigmatization and pain are emphasized by different authorities. Failure at school, high-risk behaviours and suicide attempts appear like three consequences of a feeling of deep ill-being in the face of latent or explicit homophobia. The goal of this conference is to take the necessary time to elaborate tools which could remedy this situation of vulnerability. In this way, the researchers are appealed to bring an interdisciplinary descriptive and analytic content aiming at making the debate objective. As for the institutional actors, pedagogic experts and managers of the educational programs, they will come and present their practical experiences.
Another light will be shed by the associations which create tools in terms of listening, support and education on the acceptance of the other in their differences. This time of exchange will be based on the question: "Education and Homophobia, a form of discrimination in the educational system: overview, actions, and intermediaries of action".
Therefore three expressions of homophobia will be questioned: the one made against children, teenagers or pre-adults who wonder on or live their homosexuality; but also the one which is organized around homoparental families, taking into account the consequences on the child who is growing up within them; and finally the expression of homophobia against homosexual instructors and teachers.. The expected scientific communications could be organized in the envisaged thematic lines below or propose new questionings.

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