The child as epistemic figure
(Im)possibilities for Gender and Racial Justice in a Secondary Classroom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2920121 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan Schey (0000-0002-1323-8523, University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 715-733 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2024.2426301 |
| OpenAlex | W4404666620 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
Thinking at the nexus of epistemic injustice, childhood studies, transgender studies, and gender and racial justice in literacy education, this article illustrates how curricular engagement with questions of age, gender, race, and power can simultaneously complicate and flatten knowledge about power relations. Drawing from a yearlong ethnography inquiring into how students and teachers read, wrote, and talked about gender and sexual diversity at a Midwestern U.S. high school, this article presents two illustrative ethnographic cases from a co-taught sophomore humanities course (grade 10) combining English language arts and social studies, cases featuring students writing about the child as an epistemic figure. The implications of this argument suggest the importance of educators questioning rather than naturalizing ageist power relations through their pedagogical techniques and curricular representations, which in turn can challenge or reify broader age-based epistemic injustices undergirding anti-trans and racist legislation and policy in and beyond the United States
Economic Justice · Epistemology · Political science · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |