| Title: |
A Queer Youth's Challenges to Normativities of Time, Space, and Queerness: Pedagogical Encounters in a Small Town Christian Youth Group |
| Language: |
English |
| Authors: |
Schey, Ryan (ORCID 0000-0002-1323-8523) |
| Source: |
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 2021 42(3):471-486. |
| Availability: |
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: |
Y |
| Page Count: |
16 |
| Publication Date: |
2021 |
| Document Type: |
Journal Articles; Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: |
LGBTQ People; Social Theories; Youth; Adolescents; Rural Schools; Christianity; Youth Programs; Time; Environment; Well Being; Social Bias; Resilience (Psychology) |
| Geographic Terms: |
Ohio |
| DOI: |
10.1080/01596306.2020.1715921 |
| ISSN: |
0159-6306 |
| Abstract: |
Previous scholarship on queer youth in small town and rural educational contexts has primarily documented educators' perspectives and experiences of youth victimization. Drawing from a broader, interview-based teacher inquiry project, I extend this research by considering a queer youth's voice and agency. Using queer theorizations of time and space, I examine the telling case of Sylvia, a queer young woman in a semi-rural, small Midwestern US town. Through her participation in the educational context of an interdenominational Christian youth group, she experienced pedagogical encounters that helped her challenge and reconfigure normative constructions of time, space, and queerness, which facilitated movement toward greater healthiness and happiness, even as she reproduced racial and class normativities through a politics of respectability. Sylvia's experiences suggest the need to attend to heterogeneity and agency in working with queer rural youth and the importance of considering constructions of time, space, and queerness in queer-inclusive curricular texts. |
| Abstractor: |
As Provided |
| Entry Date: |
2021 |
| Accession Number: |
EJ1299070 |
| Database: |
ERIC |