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Author: Telford, David James × End date: 1999 × Start date: 1980 × Subject: Attitudes × Subject: Case studies × Subject: Victoria ×

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    The paradox of silence and heterosexism : the impact of secondary schools on the construction of male homosexualities
    Telford, David James ( 1997)
    The heterocentric discourses in schools have marginalized male homosexual students through approaches in the academic and hidden curricula and in pedagogical practices. The multiple discourses in schools have viewed a student's construction of their sexuality and gender as oppositional categories. These approaches have not positively contributed to divergent expressions of homosexuality and of alternative masculinities because schools have failed to view the relational nature of identity construction and its policing through heterosexist discourses. Extracts from five participants in the case studies illustrate the silence experienced by homosexual students through the academic curricula and the paradox of hyper-sexualization in schools. Discipline and support procedures implemented to combat heterosexist attitudes have not been effective, as the multiple discourses have created a vacuum of silence filled with heterosexist violence.