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Martino, Wayne; Cumming-Potvin, Wendy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This paper is based on research that is concerned to provide insight into the pedagogical potential for interrupting heteronormativity and addressing the politics of gender expression/embodiment in the elementary school classroom. It is informed by an engagement with queer and trans theoretical literature that raises questions about restrictive…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Social Bias, Gender Issues, Sexuality
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Helmer, Kirsten – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
Drawing on an ethnographic case study of a 13-week Gay and Lesbian Literature course, this paper explores how a high-school teacher and her students engaged with queer-themed literature. Focused on episodes around the class' engagement with two of the novels read in the course--Rita Mae Brown's "Rubyfruit Jungle" and Michael Cunningham's…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Homosexuality, High School Students
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Rasmussen, Mary Lou; Gowlett, Christina; Connell, Raewyn – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
The most attractive thing in queer theory is the social movement energy that's been in it, the sense of excitement and boundary-breaking, the sense of new perspectives. Given the social anxieties and manipulated fear and right-wing triumphalism around today, people need that excitement and boldness--in education and in society at large. In this…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Theories, Educational Research, Politics of Education
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Renold, Emma; Ivinson, Gabrielle – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
The paper works with queer and feminist post-human materialist scholarship to understand the way young teen valleys' girls experienced ubiquitous feelings of fear, risk, vulnerability and violence. Longitudinal ethnographic research of girls (aged 12-15) living in an ex-mining semi-rural community suggests how girls are negotiating complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Early Adolescents, Fear
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Renold, Emma; Allan, Alexandra – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This paper refocuses attention on and problematizes girls' experiences of school achievement and the construction of schoolgirl femininities. In particular, it centres on the relatively neglected experiences and identity work of high achieving primary school girls. Drawing upon ethnographic data (observations, interviews, and pupil diaries) from a…
Descriptors: Females, Academic Achievement, Ethnography, Diaries
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McKinley, Elizabeth – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
In Aotearoa New Zealand journeys of discovery and colonization were also scientific journeys that brought "Maori woman" under the intellectual control of the emerging "scientific" academy. This paper argues that the historical construction of "Maori woman" through the discourses of Enlightenment science continues to…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Females