Service, Suffering, and Silence: A Duoethnographic Exploration of the Evangelical Roots of Gender Hierarchies in American Elementary Schools

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  • Author(s): Janna McClain (ORCID Janna McClain (ORCID 0000-0002-6190-4711); Katie Schrodt (ORCID Katie Schrodt (ORCID 0000-0001-9635-7714)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Gender and Education. 2024 36(2):119-134.
  • Publication Date:
    2024
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Evaluative
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      16
    • Education Level:
      Elementary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Elementary School Teachers; Authors; Workshops; Gender Issues; Gender Discrimination; Faculty Development; Power Structure; Christianity; Beliefs; Information Dissemination; Global Approach; Psychological Patterns; Auditory Stimuli; Interprofessional Relationship; Intersectionality
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/09540253.2023.2289954
    • ISSN:
      0954-0253
      1360-0516
    • Abstract:
      The authors utilize a duoethnographic approach to interrogate their positionality within a co-caring community of elementary school educators who participated in a week-long writers' workshop as part of their professional development. The teachers worked in a rural elementary school in the American South that served students who represent multiple/intersectional marginalized identities. A self-reflexive inquiry led to connections between the gendered hierarchies in the authors' evangelical upbringings and the top-down authority structures in the immediate school context of the professional development. In both instances, micro-resistance to gendered hegemony took form in co-caring communities among women. However, these co-caring communities also caused tension for women who risked severing relationships to leave oppressive situations.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1415085