Who are you calling queer? Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will always hurt me

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Vicars, Mark (2006) Who are you calling queer? Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will always hurt me. British Educational Research Journal, 32 (3). pp. 347-361. ISSN 0141-1926

Abstract

Recent evidence suggests that there have been significant increases in the number of problems reported by students who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual. This paper seeks to describe, by means of autobiographical account, the educational implications of being identified as 'queer' within schools. It draws on experiential stories to illustrate the injurious effects of homophobic speech acts and attempts to show how reconstructed narratives of the self can be used in educational research. The stories told in this article speak about the impact of heteronormative practices in education and how a sense of self can become constituted through the authorising, performative utterances of wounding words.

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Item type	Article
URI	https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/3115
DOI	10. 1080/01411920600635395
Official URL	http://www.jstor.org/stable/30032673
Subjects	Historical > FOR Classification > 1608 Sociology Historical > FOR Classification > 1701 Psychology Historical > FOR Classification > 1303 Specialist Studies in Education Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Education
Keywords	ResPubID14430, lesbian, gay, bisexual students, the injurious effects of homophobic speech acts, the impact of heteronormative practices in education
Citations in Scopus	29 - View on Scopus
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