Rickard, Angela
(2014)
‘
A Not-so-simple Story from My Life
’
: Using Auto-ethnography
and Creative Writing to Re-frame the Heteronormative Narratives
of School Life.
Changing English, 21 (4).
pp. 348-358.
ISSN 1358-684X
Abstract
Re
fl
ecting on my experience as a teacher and a lesbian in a second-level school
in Ireland in the early 1990s, I use an auto-ethnographic approach
fi
rst to explore
some of the ways dominant narratives can silence, constrain and marginalise
some people. Projecting forward to an imagined future, I draw on creative writ-
ing to
‘
re-frame
’
how identity could be represented and experienced. While it is
noted that context, attitudes and experiences have changed for the better in the
intervening decades, legislative frames still hold fast, and heteronormativity con-
tinues to curb expressions of difference. Adopting a creatively disruptive style
and format, I hope to provide a glimpse of a new normal in schools where more
positive and less alienating experiences are imaginable
...
for everyone.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
auto-ethnography; narrative; education; Ireland; heteronormativity; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
5730 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2014.969021 |
| Depositing User: |
Angela Rickard
|
| Date Deposited: |
26 Jan 2015 10:31 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Changing English |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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