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Producing New Affective Concepts of Race in an English Classroom
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Sosa, Teresa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
Focusing on moments in the English classroom imbued with affective forces that produce racial differentiation is central to the support of classrooms addressing race and racism. This work focuses on an event in an English classroom where race was constructed in ways that disrupted not only silence but habitual ways of social differentiation.…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes, Social Differences
Inhuman Literacies and Affective Refusals: Thinking with Sylvia Wynter and Secondary School English
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Truman, Sarah E. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2019
This paper considers how literacy and education more broadly reflect and reproduce world views and communicative practices rooted in the western epistemological conceptualization of what Sylvia Wynter calls "Man". I frictionally think-with Wynter's hybridity of bios and logos (mythoi), and more-than-human theories in relation to an…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary School Students, Literacy, World Views
Affective Assemblages: Body Matters in the Pedagogic Practices of Contemporary School Classrooms
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2012
Set within the affective turn in cultural and social theory, in this paper, I explore the significance of materiality and matter, most specifically, bodily matter, in the pedagogic practices of contemporary school classrooms. The received view in education is that affect is tantamount to emotion or feeling and that materials, such as bodily…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Social Theories, Human Body, Teaching Methods
The Relationship between Interparental Conflict and Adolescents' Affective Well-Being: Mediation of Cognitive Appraisals and Moderation of Peer Status
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Xin, Ziqiang; Chi, Liping; Yu, Guoliang – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
This study examined the mediation effect of cognitive appraisals and the moderation role of peer status in the association between interparental conflict and adolescents' affective well-being based on a sample of 549 Chinese adolescents from 7th to 12th grades. Interparental conflict properties, adolescents' cognitive appraisals of conflict,…
Descriptors: Social Status, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
The Relation of Prosocial Orientation to Peer Interactions, Family Social Environment and Personality of Chinese Adolescents
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Ma, Hing Keung; Cheung, Ping Chung; Shek, Daniel T. L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
This study investigated the relation of peer interactions, family social environment and personality to prosocial orientation in Chinese adolescents. The results indicated no sex differences in general prosocial orientation and inclination to help others, but sex differences in inclination to maintain an affective relationship and inclination to…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Delinquency, Social Desirability, Personality Traits
Implications of Out-of-School Activities for School Engagement in African American Adolescents
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Dotterer, Aryn M.; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
The connection between out-of-school activities and school engagement was examined in 140, 6th through 9th grade African American adolescents. Youth's out-of-school activities were measured with a series of 7 nightly phone calls and focused on time in structured (homework, academically-oriented, extracurricular/sports) and unstructured (watching…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Television, Homework, Extracurricular Activities