ERIC Number: EJ939175
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 21
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"Miss, You're so Gay." Queer Stories from Trainee Teachers
Nixon, David; Givens, Nick
Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, v4 n3 p217-237 2004
This study focuses on interviews with six lesbian, gay or bisexual trainee teachers, and explores their experiences in relation to sexual orientation. Initial analysis reveals interesting perspectives on the lives of trainees in Higher Education, during school-based work and socially; it also provides a window onto the attitudes to sexuality (individual and institutional) encountered by interviewees. Further analysis takes theoretical tools from three overlapping discourses in which these trainees are participants: the local campus culture, the construction of sexualities in schools, and wider society's perceptions of gender and sexuality. These tools uncover significant concerns around identity management, vulnerability and powerlessness, institutional silence, and the hegemonic masculinity of some student cultures. They also reveal significant creative resistance to discrimination, enabling us to conclude that, in spite of some methodological difficulties, idealism is not misplaced as an inspiration to emancipatory endeavour. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table, and 9 notes.)
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexuality, Interviews, Masculinity, Sexual Orientation, Gender Differences, Social Bias, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Power Structure
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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