Walls, seats and the gymnasium: a social-material ethnography on gendered school space in an Icelandic compulsory school
This article focuses on how students make use of different spaces in one compulsory school in Iceland and how gender is produced through activities in these spaces. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted for three months in 2016 among 8th and 9th graders at one public school in Iceland. Our analysis i...
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ftuniveasternfin:oai:erepo.uef.fi:123456789/7889 2024-06-16T07:40:54+00:00 Walls, seats and the gymnasium: a social-material ethnography on gendered school space in an Icelandic compulsory school Þrastardóttir, Bergljót Jóhannesson, Ingólfur Ásgeir Lappalainen, Sirpa Department of Social Sciences, activities 2020-01-08T09:54:19Z 1-17 https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/7889 englanti unknown Informa UK Limited Ethnography and education http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2019.1698306 10.1080/17457823.2019.1698306 1745-7823 1 16 https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/7889 In copyright 1.0 openAccess © Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ compulsory school ethnography discursive material space gender binary Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit A1 article artikkeli 2020 ftuniveasternfin https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2019.1698306 2024-05-23T03:07:27Z This article focuses on how students make use of different spaces in one compulsory school in Iceland and how gender is produced through activities in these spaces. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted for three months in 2016 among 8th and 9th graders at one public school in Iceland. Our analysis is based on poststructural and material theorisation in a country with one of the most progressive curricula in the world. It indicates that the school environment favours dividing practices between boys and girls in both overt and subtle ways, with a relative lack of resistance to gender division. The division and gender order are maintained through discourse and practices that support particular forms of masculinity with an emphasis on athletic embodiment and sports knowledge. This gender division affects power relations in the classroom, hindering the facilitation of gender-inclusive environments and gender-sensitive practices that are obligatory in Icelandic education policy. final draft peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland UEF eRepository (University of Eastern Finland) Ethnography and Education 16 1 1 17 |
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This article focuses on how students make use of different spaces in one compulsory school in Iceland and how gender is produced through activities in these spaces. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted for three months in 2016 among 8th and 9th graders at one public school in Iceland. Our analysis is based on poststructural and material theorisation in a country with one of the most progressive curricula in the world. It indicates that the school environment favours dividing practices between boys and girls in both overt and subtle ways, with a relative lack of resistance to gender division. The division and gender order are maintained through discourse and practices that support particular forms of masculinity with an emphasis on athletic embodiment and sports knowledge. This gender division affects power relations in the classroom, hindering the facilitation of gender-inclusive environments and gender-sensitive practices that are obligatory in Icelandic education policy. final draft peerReviewed |
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Walls, seats and the gymnasium: a social-material ethnography on gendered school space in an Icelandic compulsory school |
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Walls, seats and the gymnasium: a social-material ethnography on gendered school space in an Icelandic compulsory school |
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