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Appropriate Pupilness

Social categories intersecting in school

University of Aarhus, School of Education, jeko{at}dpu.dk

The analytical focus in this article is on how social categories intersect in daily school life and how intersections intertwine with other empirically relevant categories such as normality, pupilness and (in)appropriatedness. The point of empirical departure is a daily ritual where teams for football are selected. The article opens up for a microanalysis of everyday practices at the margins and at the core of what this article terms `pupilness'. The concept of intersectionality is suggested as a useful analytical tool to understand the multiple activities of pupils in everyday school life. The concept is applied to an analysis of the particular selection of teams and to practices of inclusion and exclusion. The understandings and practices within this ritualistic selection mingle with and lend meaning to wider relationships.

Key Words: empirical analysis • gender and whiteness • heterogeneity • intersectionality • minority research • poststructuralism • subjectification

Childhood, Vol. 15, No. 3, 415-430 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208091671


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