Abstract
In 1994, South Africa became a democracy after decades of oppression and inequality. Upon the ratification of the Constitution, the South African Schools Act of 1996 inaugurated a new education system that prohibits all forms discrimination and intolerance. As part of the transformation process, the Department of Education (DoE) published a White Paper 2 on Organisation, Governance and Funding of Schools to foster democratic institutional management at school level (Department of Education, 1996). The democratic imperatives in these two landmark documents requires from learning institutions that young people with same-sex sexual orientations are protected from any form of harm and discrimination. An emerging body of literature points out that regardless of progressive and favourable legislation and policy guidelines, school youth who identify with and express diverse sexual orientations to date still experience school as exclusionary, discriminatory and unsafe . Parental involvement is among the key strategies to optimize and enhance learning in the home and school ecologies. In the climate of same-sex sexual dissonance in South African schools, it is not very clear how schools work with parents whose child orientate with same-sex sexualities...
Ph.D. (Educational Psychology)