ERIC Number: EJ1192118
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
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In 8100 Again: The Sounds of Students Breaking
Wozolek, Boni
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v54 n4 p367-381 2018
In this article, the author uses the sounds of schooling to explore LGBTQ youth experiences as they relate to self-harm and suicide. Although sounds-as-voice and representation is a well-trodden path in scholarly conversations, the author centers her argument on the significance of sounds in the daily lives of LGBTQ students. This is significant as literature predominantly focuses on the signs of suicide as physical and visual rather than residing in sounded epistemologies. Expanding on previous work on the school-to-coffin pipeline, this article theorizes the sounds of students breaking to explore youth suicide and self-harm as they are nested in the everyday interactions of classrooms and corridors. Using a combination of personal narrative and interviews from a year-long sonic ethnography, the author explores how sounds are an important part of the school-to-coffin pipeline for LGBTQ youth and should therefore be regarded as a significant tool for unpacking some of the darkest experiences and notions learned through schooling--depression, self-harm, and suicide.
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, At Risk Students, Student Experience, Self Destructive Behavior, Suicide, Educational Environment, High School Students, Hospitalized Children, Social Bias, Human Body
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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