Constellating Emotional Dialogues in Secondary Education - Autoethnographic Insights Into Queerness, Race, and Compassion

This innovative, autoethnographic study examines 12 stories of "wobble" moments - looking at "wobble" as an emotional experience - to illuminate new perspectives on LGBTQIA+ identity, school violence, racism, mental illness in students and teachers, and the emotional costs of empathy.

List of contents

1. Part I: An Emotional Orientation to the State of Jefferson 2. Introduction: Swimming with Sharks in Tanks of Our Own Making 3. Chapter 1: It's All Relational: A Framework Diffracted and Emotional Literature Review 4. Chapter 2: Crystallizing Experiences into Autoethnography 5. Chapter 3: Red is the Color of Anger, Embarrassment, and Love 6. Chapter 4: An Explosion of Secondary Traumatic Stress at the Secret Gay Trade 7. Chapter 5: The Intricacies of Depression in the Classroom 8. Chapter 6: Racing Through the State of Jefferson 9. Chapter 7: Open House is a Borderland 10. Chapter 8: Implications: Seeing Sharks in the Light

About the author

Emily Wilkinson is an educator specializing in autoethnography and emotion. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University's PhD program in English Ed, where she studied the intersections of emotions, dialogical pedagogy, conservatism, and queerness in a rural middle school classroom. She currently teaches English and advises a Genders & Sexualities Alliance at a high school in Northern California, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Wilkinson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032776798
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277679-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Educational psychology, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teacher Training & Certification