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4 - Educators’ Perspectives on Language and Sexual Diversity in Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Helen Sauntson
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York St John University
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Interviews were conducted with educators working in secondary schools in the UK and an electronic survey was distributed to educators in high schools in Washington DC. The analysis and emergent findings from these data-sets are the focus of Chapter 5. In the interviews and surveys, the educators discuss their perceptions of how issues around sexual diversity are handled in their schools and what they think the key issues are. Like the young people interviews, the interview and survey data from the educators was analysed using linguistic frameworks in order to better understand how the speakers understand and construct different sexual identities in relation to the school contexts, and how their language encodes particular feelings and attitudes towards issues around sexuality and schooling. To this end, the frameworks used to analyse this data are tactics of intersubjectivity and appraisal. This enables a direct comparison of the young people’s and adult educators’ perceptions of how sexual diversity is constructed and experienced in the school environment (revealed through the application of the tactics of intersubjectivity framework) and their own feelings and attitudes towards sexual diversity and schooling (revealed through the application of appraisal analysis).
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Print publication year: 2018

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