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    Does my body lower your science grade?

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    2016-08
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    Aghasaleh, Rouhollah
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    In this dissertation I explore how teachers’ and students’ bodies are considered as distractive. I deconstruct the structure in which teachers’ and students’ bodies are not supposed to appear in the schooling of young adolescents. Using deconstruction, I analyze the structure in which a female body in the classroom distracts rational males from doing their intellectually abstract, bodiless tasks. As far as this approach marginalizes female teachers and students and suppresses bodies, I argue that this is problematic. Reviewing the literature I found this argument very similar to the logic that supported gender segregated schooling in this country and in other societies. This mindset also guides middle school teachers to create what I call gender segregation within coeducation where teachers assign boys and girls into segregated groups because they believe they will otherwise get distracted. This study suggests that this structure is a barrier for girls, people of color, and queer people in their achievement in field of science.
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    http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/aghasaleh_rouhollah_201608_phd
    http://hdl.handle.net/10724/36549
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