See Me, Hear Me ... Queerly Visible: Conversations about family and school with non-heterosexual parents and their children
| dc.contributor.author | Keener, Terrah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-05T17:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-04-05T17:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the schooling experiences of non-heterosexual parents and their children. It incorporates a multi-layered narrative and arts-influenced methodology to interrogate issues surrounding silence and queer visibility within a school setting. Leveraging visual arts and performance as both a means of data generation and data representation, this research illustrates how dominant cultural practices and narratives surrounding school and family perpetuate heteronormative ideology, while excluding and silencing non-heterosexual parents and their children. These claims are based on analysis of schooling and family stories as represented by parents and children. The stories were generated by employing a multi-layered narrative arts-based research methodology that was derived from narrative inquiry, arts-informed research methods, and a/r/tography. Using queer theory as a theoretical frame and at times a foil, the dissertation problematizes the normalization of school and family both within the school system and the larger community. This research employs queer theory to question and disrupt assumptions about non-heterosexual parents and the queer families they construct. The dissertation rests on the invisibility of non-heterosexual identities both within a school and family context and interrogates what happens when school life and home life are incongruent to one another. The stories represented within this thesis provide a window into the experience of parents and children who on a daily basis run the risk of not being ―seen‖ by their teachers, school administrators, and the broader school community. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10587/1234 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of South Australia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Arts informed research | en_US |
| dc.subject | Homosexual parents | en_US |
| dc.subject | Queer visibility | en_US |
| dc.subject | School Children | en_US |
| dc.title | See Me, Hear Me ... Queerly Visible: Conversations about family and school with non-heterosexual parents and their children | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |