The Ceaseless Carnival: Teasing in China's Non-School-Based Sex Education Classroom (Poster 19)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 3:20 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Division G: Section 2 Poster Session

Abstract

This qualitative research paper examines how teasing between teachers and students occurs in non-school-based education classrooms in China, and how embarrassment about sexual taboos dissolves in the general excitement of a carnival. The analysis uses a video recording. Conversation analysis serves as the analytical framework for this study. Teasing creates a vacuum in the sex education classroom where the inherent rules of classroom power disappear and embarrassment about sexual topics dissolves in the interplay of seriousness and humor. This paper is positioned within the current conversation in educational research to better comprehend teasing and how it intersects with the processes of teaching and learning.

Authors

• Meng Sun, East China Normal University

• Yuan Zhuang, East China Normal University

• Sihan Xiao, East China Normal University