"A Positive, Safe Environment": Urban Arts High Schools and the Safety Mystique

Autor/inn/en	Gaztambide-Fernández, Rubén A.; Rivière, Dominique
Titel	"A Positive, Safe Environment": Urban Arts High Schools and the Safety Mystique
Quelle	In: Harvard Educational Review, 89 (2019) 3, S.397-421 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8055
Schlagwörter	Educational Environment; Urban Schools; High Schools; School Safety; LGBTQ People; Student Needs; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Foreign Countries; Critical Theory; Race; Social Bias; Art Education; Home Schooling; Canada (Toronto) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; High school; Oberschule; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Ausland; Kritische Theorie; Rasse; Abstammung; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Homeschooling; Home instruction; ; Hausunterricht; Heimschule
Abstract	In this research article, Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Dominique Rivière examine the discursive frames that students and teachers in four specialized arts high schools in Toronto used in describing their schools as safe environments. The belief that arts high schools are safe is shared by students and teachers, particularly in relationship to LGBTTQ+ students, making these schools optimal settings for examining what safety means and how it is construed. The authors show how the assumption that arts high schools are safe is related to the larger social and cultural context in which each school is situated. By asking what it means to be safe, whose safety, and from what dangers, they aim to demystify the notion of safety, showing how it is related to dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that can be traced to broader national discourses. Drawing on critical race theory, as well as the concept of homonationalism and the construction of exalted subjects, the article highlights the remarkably similar discourses through which both arts high schools and the liberal nation-state are construed as safe. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01