Beyond "No/Homo": An Institutional Ethnographic Exploration of Teachers' Understandings of Gendered Harassment Policies

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dc.contributor.advisorMawhinney, Hanne Ben_US
dc.contributor.authorChen, Elkeen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEducation Policy, and Leadershipen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-10T11:06:59Z
dc.date.available2012-10-10T11:06:59Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis institutional ethnography explored how teachers who attended district-sponsored professional development workshop(s) on sexuality or gendered harassment came to understand their school district's gendered harassment policies. The goal of the project was to explore how teachers constructed and understood homophobic harassment, sexual harassment, and harassment for gender non-conformity, in order to examine their understandings of those policies and how they incorporated them into their daily work. The study is an institutional ethnography in which I explored the interactions between organizational practices, policies, and the experiences of six health and physical education teachers. This sociological approach involves an explication of how complex human actions, in this case, teachers' understandings of gendered harassment policies, are coordinated by various kinds of texts, policies, and procedures. In particular, I investigated how standards-based accountability and its accompanying school practices coordinated the activities of health and physical education teachers and their understandings of their school district's gendered harassment policies. The social relations of standards-based accountability and physical education generated an empirical ground for the analysis of how gendered harassment policies in a school setting are organized. By inquiring into the activities of health and physical education teachers in a school setting, I explicated how these teachers' knowledge of gendered harassment and gendered harassment policies is socially organized.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12967
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducationen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPublic policyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysical educationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBullyingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEducation policyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGendered harassmenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInstitutional ethnographyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMarginalizationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhysical education teachersen_US
dc.titleBeyond "No/Homo": An Institutional Ethnographic Exploration of Teachers' Understandings of Gendered Harassment Policiesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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