"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down" : LGBT bullying and exclusion in Japanese schools / [Kyle Knight].

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Knight, Kyle [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2016]
  • ©2016
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85 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

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    "The report, "'The Nail That Sticks Out Gets Hammered Down': LGBT Bullying and Exclusion in Japanese Schools, "" examines the shortcomings in Japanese government policies that expose LGBT students to bullying and inhibit access to information and self-expression. Bullying is widespread and brutal in Japan's schools, yet government policies addressing bullying do not specifically address LGBT students, who are among the most vulnerable to bullying. Instead, the national bullying prevention policy promotes social norms at the expense of basic rights. LGBT students told Human Rights Watch that teachers have told them that by being openly gay or transgender, they are being selfish and should expect not to succeed in school"--Publisher's description.
    Notes
    • "May 2016"--Table of contents page.
    • "Kyle Knight, researcher in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights Program, wrote this report based on research that he and Michael Bochenek, senior counsel in the Children's Rights Division, undertook from August to November 2015"--Page 85.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Summary
    • Recommendations: To the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
    • To the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
    • To Municipal Governments and School Boards
    • To the National Diet
    • Methodology
    • I. Young and Queer in Japan: LGBT Rights in Japan
    • Japan's Bullying Epidemic
    • Information Vacuum
    • Verbal Harassment
    • Physical Abuse
    • Pressure to Conform
    • School Enforcement of Gender Norms
    • II. Government Policies: Importance of Well-Trained Teachers
    • Visible Cases, Invisible Causes
    • III. Japan's Legal Obligations to Protect LGBT Students: Rights to Education, Information, and Freedom of Expression
    • Naming and Curbing LGBT Bullying
    • Acknowledgments.
    Other title(s)
    • LGBT bullying and exclusion in Japanese schools
    • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender bullying and exclusion in Japanese schools
    ISBN
    • 9781623133443
    • 1623133440
    LCCN
    2016302325
    OCLC
    958069010
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