Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides
Biographic Data
| ID | 6487438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sophia Tatiana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarigianides |
| SIGNATURE | SARIGIANIDES S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Westfield State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7703-7539 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Solace, Mobility Strategies, and Meritocracy
Addressing social class in literacy education through literature instruction matters because of the rich classed experiences in the texts taught, but also because of the social class messages gleaned from such texts. In a U.S. culture which propagates the dominant ideology of meritocracy, complicating students' understandings of social class in the meanings they draw from texts and those they draw about themselves matters. This high school study …
Mourning Working-Class Identities through Young Adult Literature in an English Education Classroom
Research underscores how working-class individuals “disidentify” (Skeggs, 1997) from working-class identities because of the impact of degrading, victim-blaming views of poverty in dominant discourses and in teacher thinking (Gorski, 2016). Contrastingly, a subset of working-class students in this preservice, young adult literature (YAL) course for English language arts (ELA) teachers took up the social class literacy curriculum that featured a s…
Shifting the abject
Teachers’ efforts to re-consider adolescence as a historically-situated social category exposes how dominant biological and psychological discourses of adolescence position youth who do not fit “proper” expectations of adolescence as abject. In this seven-month study with experienced White and Black teachers working with poor youth of color, I employ Kristeva's notion of abjection to show how teachers’ recognition of their own complicity in the a…
Rampant teen sex
This article shows how efforts to introduce experienced teachers to theories of adolescence as a construct become stymied when such re-conceptualizations of youth included views of youth as sexual. Though re-theorizations of adolescence as a cultural construct potentially affect and disrupt a wide range of traits about adolescence, the trait that posed the greatest obstacle to considering a widely different way of viewing young people was imagini…
Tensions in Teaching Adolescence/ts
Identifying English Education courses focused on young adult literature as apposite sites for exploring teacher conceptions of youth and the texts aimed for youths’ consumptions, this article addresses the multiple sources of tension—and pedagogical potential—of teaching a young adult literature course centrally framed around controversial discourses of adolescence. Reflecting on six years of teaching the course at two different institutions with…
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Tensions in Teaching Adolescence/ts
Identifying English Education courses focused on young adult literature as apposite sites for exploring teacher conceptions of youth and the texts aimed for youths’ consumptions, this article addresses the multiple sources of tension—and pedagogical potential—of teaching a young adult literature course centrally framed around controversial discourses of adolescence. Reflecting on six years of teaching the course at two different institutions with…
Rampant teen sex
This article shows how efforts to introduce experienced teachers to theories of adolescence as a construct become stymied when such re-conceptualizations of youth included views of youth as sexual. Though re-theorizations of adolescence as a cultural construct potentially affect and disrupt a wide range of traits about adolescence, the trait that posed the greatest obstacle to considering a widely different way of viewing young people was imagini…
Shifting the abject
Teachers’ efforts to re-consider adolescence as a historically-situated social category exposes how dominant biological and psychological discourses of adolescence position youth who do not fit “proper” expectations of adolescence as abject. In this seven-month study with experienced White and Black teachers working with poor youth of color, I employ Kristeva's notion of abjection to show how teachers’ recognition of their own complicity in the a…
Mourning Working-Class Identities through Young Adult Literature in an English Education Classroom
Research underscores how working-class individuals “disidentify” (Skeggs, 1997) from working-class identities because of the impact of degrading, victim-blaming views of poverty in dominant discourses and in teacher thinking (Gorski, 2016). Contrastingly, a subset of working-class students in this preservice, young adult literature (YAL) course for English language arts (ELA) teachers took up the social class literacy curriculum that featured a s…
Solace, Mobility Strategies, and Meritocracy
Addressing social class in literacy education through literature instruction matters because of the rich classed experiences in the texts taught, but also because of the social class messages gleaned from such texts. In a U.S. culture which propagates the dominant ideology of meritocracy, complicating students' understandings of social class in the meanings they draw from texts and those they draw about themselves matters. This high school study …
Curriculum (4 works) · Literacy (3 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Class (philosophy (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)