Search
Program Calendar
Browse By Day
Browse By Time
Browse By Person
Browse By Room
Browse By Unit
Browse By Session Type
Search Tips
What to do in Chicago
Personal Schedule
Sign In
This teacher participant-observer qualitative research paper examines how the discourse of five boys and a male teacher engaged in a curriculum activity in a G8 comprehensive sexuality education classroom constructed understandings of gender and how this discourse got enacted. The setting is a progressive church school located in a northeastern city of 180,000. The analysis uses an audio-recording contextualized with field notes selected from a large dataset. Findings show that the activity became co-opted into a mockery. Dynamics of power emerged. Students’ talk shaped their own and each other’s identity, and promoted the patriarchal status-quo. This paper is positioned within current educational research studying gendered speech and how it intersects with processes of teaching and learning.