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Publication Date: 2016
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Shifting the Abject: Examining Abjected Adolescence in Teacher Thinking
Sarigianides, Sophia Tatiana
Curriculum Inquiry, v46 n4 p388-407 2016
Teachers' efforts to re-consider adolescence as a historically-situated social category exposes how dominant biological and psychological discourses of adolescence position youth who do not fit "proper" expectations of adolescence as abject. In this seven-month study with experienced White and Black teachers working with poor youth of color, I employ Kristeva's notion of abjection to show how teachers' recognition of their own complicity in the abjection of youth in their school offered them an opportunity to re-consider dominant conceptions of adolescence in their curriculum. Understanding their participation in larger discourses that aim to regulate abjected adolescents/ce, teachers' views of specific students in their school who suffered as a result of teachers seeing them as abject created opportunities for re-thinking adolescence as a category.
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Whites, Minority Group Students, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Qualitative Research, Blacks, Professional Development, Teacher Student Relationship, Adolescent Attitudes, Males, African American Students
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