Allen, Alexandra and Atkinson, Elizabeth and Brace, Elizabeth and DePalma, Renee and Hemingway, Judy (2008) Speaking the unspeakable in forbidden places: addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the primary school. Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 8 (3). pp. 315-328. ISSN Print: 1468-1811 Online: 1472-0825
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Abstract
This paper interrogates the ways in which school is produced as a particular bounded place (or collection of places) where sexuality, and particularly non-heterosexuality, is carefully policed by these boundaries. Drawing upon data generated in primary schools during a nationwide action research project (No Outsiders), we focus on three very different school places: the classroom, the staff room and a school -based afterschool art club. Our analysis engages with the contingency of place-making to show that place is neither a unitary experience nor a neutral stage upon which social relations are enacted. The three vignettes analysed offer insights into the critical potential of consciously and persistently working across (apparently) boundaried spaces within and beyond schools.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Allen, Alexandra and Atkinson, Elizabeth and Brace, Elizabeth and DePalma, Renee and Hemingway, Judy (2008) Speaking the unspeakable in forbidden places: addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the primary school. Sex Education, 8 (3). pp. 315-328. journal]. Sex Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/14681810802218395 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Primary school Sexuality (Sexual orientation) |
| Subjects: | Departments > Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2010 10:55 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/852 |
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