“That Poem Was Pretty Wild to Me”: On Personal Safety and Precarious Moments in Teacher Candidates’ Responses to Sexual Assault Narratives

• Published in: Research in the teaching of English Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 311 - 339
• Main Author: Moore, Amber
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Urbana National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) 01.02.2025; National Council of Teachers of English
• Subjects: Access to Education; Adolescent Literature; Attitudes; Butler, Judith; Classrooms; Discourse Analysis; Educational Equity (Finance); Elementary Secondary Education; English Literature; Equal Education; Feminism; Focus Groups; Hate crimes; Labor Conditions; Language Arts; Learner Engagement; Learning; Literacy Education; Moore, Amber; Poetry; Pregnancy; Preservice Teacher Education; Programming; Public Schools; Secondary Education; Secondary School Teachers; Sex crimes; Sexual Abuse; Social Action; Social Change; Student teachers; Students; Teacher education; Teachers; Teaching; Trauma; Violence; Canada; United Kingdom

Please note that some discussions of domestic, sexual, and racial violence are included in this article. This article explores how teachers and students in a teacher training program constructed precarious moments by engaging with sexual assault literature and pedagogy that centers rape culture and...