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Mora, Richard – Gender and Education, 2013
Employing social constructivist theories and the concept of abjection from gender studies, this article examines how and why a group of low-income, USA-born Dominican and Puerto Rican middle-school boys constructed masculine identities by invoking and repudiating homosexuality. Ethnographic data from a 2.5-year study indicate that the abjection of…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Homosexuality, Constructivism (Learning), Racial Identification
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Ranker, Jason – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
As part of an inquiry and digital documentary video project, two 12-year-old students studied the Dominican Republic. Over the course of their research, the boys (one of whose parents moved from the Dominican Republic) focused their project on two aspects of the culture of the Dominican Republic: contemporary music (bachata and merengue) and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Internet, Technology Uses in Education, Inquiry