‘Teaching up’ at school and home: young people’s contemporary gender perspectives

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This paper explores young people’s understandings of gender and investigates their gender-based experiences in high schools in Australia. The discussion is based on qualitative research including focus groups and interviews with 47 recent high school leavers from diverse linguistic, socioeconomic, religious, ethnic, gender and sexuality backgrounds, who attended a broad range of high school types in New South Wales (NSW). We found that young people are critically engaging in gender issues and are often challenging binary gender and associated inequitable practices in schools and beyond. They are taking a leading role in educating adults about gender—that is, they are ‘teaching up’, as young people conceptualised it, to their families and teachers about gender, gender-related issues and doing gender differently in contemporary times. Their views on gender are often in contrast to those institutional views that currently prevail in NSW schools, which often still reflect stereotypes that perpetuate gender inequalities.

学校和家庭的 "向上教育":年轻人的当代性别观点
摘要 本文探讨了年轻人对性别的理解,并调查了他们在澳大利亚高中的性别体验。讨论基于定性研究,包括焦点小组和访谈,访谈对象是 47 名应届高中毕业生,他们来自不同的语言、社会经济、宗教、种族、性别和性取向背景,在新南威尔士州(NSW)的各种类型的高中就读。我们发现,年轻人正在批判性地参与性别问题,并经常挑战二元性别以及学校内外相关的不公平做法。他们在对成年人进行性别教育方面发挥着主导作用,也就是说,正如年轻人所认为的那样,他们在向家人和老师 "传授 "有关性别、性别相关问题以及在当代以不同方式处理性别问题的知识。他们对性别问题的看法往往与新南威尔士州学校目前普遍存在的制度性观点形成鲜明对比,这些观点往往仍然反映出使性别不平等现象长期存在的陈规定型观念。
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