Discussing Sexuality in the English Classroom: Using Bakhtinian Analyses and Positioning Theory to Explore Teacher Talk

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dc.contributor.authorScott, Brigitte Condonen
dc.contributor.committeechairGarrison, James W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKelly, Patricia Proudfooten
dc.contributor.committeememberHausman, Bernice L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBrandt, Carol Bethen
dc.contributor.departmentTeaching and Learningen
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-04T08:00:13Zen
dc.date.available2013-04-04T08:00:13Zen
dc.date.issued2013-04-03en
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is an examination of the ways English teachers may be complicit in reproducing an abstinence-based sex education discourse in their own classroom practices and discussions of literature. Working from disciplinary research in sex education, sociology, English education, anthropology, and public health, I explore English teachers\' experiences in negotiating the effects of, reactions to, and expectations for discussing sexuality, intimacy, and gender in a school community. Using feminist positioning theory and Bakhtin\'s concepts of dialogism and ventriloquism, I explore how teachers approach, grapple with, contribute to, and leverage dominant institutional discourses in their practices, thereby mediating knowledge, possibilities for conversations, and institutional norms. An amalgam of teaching philosophies, methodologies, and political ideologies underscores teachers\' voicing patterns and discursive positions, helping to further inform an understanding of how contentious social issues are negotiated in the classroom. The agentic discursive positions teachers take up provide insights into teachers as mediating agents within institutional discourses, but not necessarily as change agents of institutional norms.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:328en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/19311en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEnglish teachersen
dc.subjectsexualityen
dc.subjectBakhtinen
dc.subjectpositioning theoryen
dc.subjectethnographyen
dc.titleDiscussing Sexuality in the English Classroom: Using Bakhtinian Analyses and Positioning Theory to Explore Teacher Talken
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineCurriculum and Instructionen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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