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6 - SRE Classroom Interaction Analysis and the Construction of Sexual Identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Helen Sauntson
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York St John University
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Chapter 7 focuses on the analysis of spoken interactional data taken from classrooms in order to explore how aspects of the UK SRE curriculum are put into practice in real classrooms. The data consists of transcribed recordings of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) lessons where the topic of the lesson was expected to address issues around sexuality, to varying degrees. In the interviews with young people which had been conducted prior to the classroom observations, participants highlighted the subject of PSHE as being subjects which lend themselves well to issues around sexuality being raised and discussed. SRE is taught within the curriculum subject of PSHE. Thus, the selection of subjects for the classroom observations was driven by the participants themselves. The aim of this chapter is to examine what kinds of sexual identities are constructed, and how spoken language is used to construct those identities in the lessons examined. The data is firstly analysed using elements of corpus linguistics to identify what thematic practices concerning sexual identities are constructed in the lessons. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is then used to explore how those identities are constructed interactionally.
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Print publication year: 2018

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