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'Just wear their hate with pride': A phenomenological autoethnography of a gay beginning teacher in a rural school.
- Source :
- Sex Education; Jul2023, Vol. 23 Issue 4, p363-378, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In this autoethnography I present three narratives exploring how I understood and experienced my identity as a gay beginning teacher working in a rural Australian secondary school, where my sexuality was generally not accepted. Reading these narratives through a phenomenological lens highlights how my subjectivity as a gay man was entangled in my embodied identity as a teacher and how students' homophobic attacks attempted to disempower this identity. I explore how colleagues' responses to these incidents advocated for a disembodied understanding of practice which positioned my sexuality as the issue and attempted to straighten me as a teacher. As a result, this paper argues that being an effective ally to queer beginning teachers starts with respecting and valuing our embodied subjectivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14681811
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sex Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164084116
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2022.2035344