LGBTQI+ teachers in Ireland: Dilemmas of visibility, age-appropriateness and religion across a period of rapid legislative change

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dc.contributor.authorNeary, Aoifeen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T13:51:00Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T13:51:00Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe chapter arises from a meta-analysis of four separate qualitative studies I conducted in Ireland between 2010 and 2019. A total of 43 LGBTQI+ teachers’ voices are captured, providing a rich picture of their everyday lives and concerns across a period of rapid change in the politics of gender and sexuality in Ireland. Three key meta-themes are presented: ‘heteronormative politics of visibility and legitimacy’; ‘childhood innocence, age-appropriateness and student/teacher boundaries’; and ‘religious structures and identifications’. Building on these meta-themes, I argue for close attention to the fine-grained texture of LGBTQI+ teachers’ lives as a starting point for grappling with the complex workings of gender and sexuality at school, and I raise pertinent questions for teacher education and the teaching profession.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
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dc.identifier.citationNeary, A. (2022) 'LGBTQI+ teachers in Ireland: Dilemmas of visibility, age-appropriateness and religion across a period of rapid legislative change', in Keane, E., Heinz, M. and McDaid, R. (eds.) Diversifying the Teaching Profession. Routledge, pp. 188-197. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188735-18en
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003188735-18en
dc.identifier.endpage197en
dc.identifier.isbn978-100065284-0; 978-103203734-9en
dc.identifier.journaltitleDiversifying the Teaching Profession: Dimensions, Dilemmas and Directions for the Futureen
dc.identifier.startpage188en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17619
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.rightsThis chapter has been made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND licenseen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectLGBTQI+ Teachersen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subject~Education - Book chapters~en
dc.titleLGBTQI+ teachers in Ireland: Dilemmas of visibility, age-appropriateness and religion across a period of rapid legislative changeen
dc.typeBook chapteren
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