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Providing Care and Equity for LGBTQ Students: Leadership Considerations for School Administrators

White, Aimee Crites
http://orcid.org/0009-0008-9982-7353
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1719934727530754

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2024, Doctor of Education, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
How can educational leaders ensure that LGBTQ students feel safe, welcome, and enjoy access to the same educational experiences as their peers amid a volatile political climate? Learning from the lived experiences of educational leaders in Florida, North Carolina, and Texas, we can provide safe and equitable experiences for LGBTQ students. This narrative inquiry study suggests leadership considerations to provide care and equity for LGBTQ students. The study was conducted with interviews as conversations which is a relational research methodology (Clandinin, 2013). Participants were invited based on serving as educational leaders in building or district administrative positions. Relational pedagogy is the theoretical basis of the analysis and informs recommendations to support LGBTQ students. For that reason, Connelly and Clandinin’s coding and analytical tools were used to find patterns affirming relational pedagogy and patterns negating relational pedagogy. Findings indicate that educational leaders have managed to keep the wellbeing of students as their focus amid a very difficult situation. There are challenges in being able to support students. There are factors negating relational pedagogy, but there are also factors that affirm relational pedagogy. These positive factors can inform how educational leaders in other states with passed and proposed anti-LGBTQ legislation can ensure that students feel safe, welcome, and enjoy equitable educational experiences.
Kathleen Knight Abowitz (Committee Chair)
70 p.
Education; Law
LGBTQ students; equity; anti-LGBTQ legislation; relational pedagogy; supporting LGBTQ students

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  • White, A. C. (2024). Providing Care and Equity for LGBTQ Students: Leadership Considerations for School Administrators [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1719934727530754

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • White, Aimee. Providing Care and Equity for LGBTQ Students: Leadership Considerations for School Administrators. 2024. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1719934727530754.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • White, Aimee. "Providing Care and Equity for LGBTQ Students: Leadership Considerations for School Administrators." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1719934727530754

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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