Exploring Sexuality in Schools

Abstract

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Discourses of Inequality

“…Within this framework I have directed the focus at a less well-explored layer of social construction: I have given examples of how students' sexuality was used by teachers to constitute their social positioning performatively via various discourses and practices. Teacher-to-student is not the only direction of power deployment and discursive reproduction, but an analysis of teacher-teacher and studentstudent relations, which I discuss elsewhere (Rédai, 2019), is beyond the scope of this paper. By involving gender and sexuality in the intersectional analysis of Hungarian Roma youth in education, I have enriched the existing scholarship on the intersectionality of race/ethnicity and class in relation to Roma people.…”

“…They call for 'a more balanced understanding of the relationship between schools and inequality, one where neutral, exacerbatory, and compensatory possibilities are all given serious consideration' (Downey and Condron, 2016: 218). While acknowledging the compensatory and exacerbatory aspects of education, in this paper (and in my larger research project, see Rédai, 2019) I focus on the (re)productive role of schools. I look at schools as places where individual subjectivities are positioned in hierarchical patterns in a network of power relations, within a broader social framework in which distinctions between social groups mean subordination, discrimination, oppression, and the exclusion of less privileged or powerful groups by more privileged or powerful groups.…”

“…SeeRédai (2019) for an analysis of teacher-teacher and student-student power relations and discursive constructions of hierarchy within these groups.…”