Annual Bulletin of Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy
Online ISSN : 2424-1474
ISSN-L : 2424-1474
Education and Learning about “Diversity of Sexuality”, and Support for Sexual Minorities
WATANABE Daisuke
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2017 Volume 24 Pages 56-65

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  It is important that Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), has expanded its coverage of support to“Sexual Minorities” and promoted Human Rights Education about Diversity of Sexuality in schools in the“Regarding the Careful Response to Students with Gender Identity Disorder”(2015). On the other hand, the challenges are that support cases are only for Gender Identity Disorder students, and that those are yet be reached to rethink gender binary system in school. Bullying situations that come from one’s Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Sexual Expression are seen from the first grade in elementary school. It proves that children already KNOW about “Sexual Minorities”as negative things. Therefore, we need to learn about “Sexual Diversity”from before a lower grade of elementary school. This means “to match the developmental stage”. The current Guideline for the Course of Study is biased to the“Cis-gender and Heterosexual”education.   Therefore, in order to guarantee the neutrality of education, learning about “Sexual Diversity”is necessary for us.
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