Abstract

ANZALDUA, Josué  and  YUREN, Teresa. Diversity at school: Normalization practices and identity strategies in the case of gay students in high school. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2011, vol.33, n.133, pp.88-113. ISSN 0185-2698.

This article submits a qualitative research about the way in which diversity is dealt with at school based on the study of a specific case: gay students in a high school institution. The authors carried out a reconstruction of the normalization discursive practices which use to mask discrimination acts at school, and the identity strategies displayed by the people who are different in order to claim their peculiarity or to avoid segregation. The techniques that are utilized with the directive staff, with teachers, students in general and gay students for the gathering of data were the following: in-depth and group interviews, focal discussion groups and focalized life stories; the discourse underwent a structural analysis. The reconstruction shows the stereotypes that use to be associated to normalization practices, the identity strategies linked with these practices, the different kinds of veiled discrimination and the possible ways to deal with diversity at school.

Keywords : Identity; Diversity; Normalization; Difference; Discrimination.

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