Exploring Youths' Understanding of Intimate Relationships Through the Education Sector: An Institutional Ethnography

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dc.contributor.advisorAhmad, Farah
dc.contributor.authorRafiq, Anum
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-28T21:19:50Z
dc.date.available2023-03-28T21:19:50Z
dc.date.copyright2022-12-12
dc.date.issued2023-03-28
dc.date.updated2023-03-28T21:19:50Z
dc.degree.disciplineHealth
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractAdolescence is a vulnerable period for youth across the world. It is a period of new learnings with opportunities to understand and develop perspectives on health and well-being. With youth beginning to engage in intimate relationships at an earlier age in the 21st century, concentrating on the learning opportunity they have in school is paramount. The nature of what has been deemed important to teach in schools has changed throughout history, and focus has shifted from home/family skills to teaching youth how to be competitive in the job market. Amidst this emphasis, opportunities for them exist to learn about building healthy intimate relationships, one of the foundational elements of most people’s lives. Using an Institutional Ethnography (IE), I trace the lived experiences of youth in how they understand intimate relationships, and how their learning experience is organized through the high school Health and Physical Education (H&PE) course. I provide an empirical exploration of how the work of teachers and youth is socially organized by a biomedical, employment-related, and efficiency-based discourse. Through interviews with teachers and youth, I trace the control those ruling relations such as institutional expectations, performance reports, and timetabling enact over the experience of teachers and youth. My findings show how texts such as the H&PE curriculum, the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) guidelines, Ministry of Education Performance Reports, and the timetable organize the day-to-day activities of teachers and students and reproduce different disjuncture for youth. This disjuncture includes some of their experiences being subordinated, difficulty relating to curriculum, and an experience of healthy living discussions being skimmed over across sites. My findings show that the experience of youth in learning about healthy intimate relationships is not akin to the espoused vision outlined in the H&PE (2015) curriculum policy. These findings have implications for policymakers, activists, and school administration alike, which call for an investigation into who is in power when it comes to youth’s learning needs, and a restructuring of existing institutional practices that allow for the flexibility required to broach the topic of healthy intimacy in a comprehensive manner.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/41010
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectEducation policy
dc.subjectPublic health
dc.subjectSociology of education
dc.subject.keywordsGender based violence
dc.subject.keywordsDomestic violence
dc.subject.keywordsHealthy relationships
dc.subject.keywordsIntimate relationships
dc.subject.keywordsEducation sector
dc.subject.keywordsOntario
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsViolent relationships
dc.subject.keywordsDating
dc.subject.keywordsYouth
dc.subject.keywordsCurriculum
dc.subject.keywordsHealth and physical education
dc.subject.keywordsSexual education
dc.subject.keywordsSex-ed
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutional ethnography
dc.subject.keywordsQualitative research
dc.subject.keywordsHealth policy
dc.subject.keywordsEquity
dc.subject.keywordsPublic policy
dc.subject.keywordsPublic health
dc.subject.keywordsPreventative care
dc.subject.keywordsProactive policy
dc.subject.keywordsSocial determinants of health
dc.subject.keywordsMental health
dc.subject.keywordsSystems transformation
dc.subject.keywordsGym
dc.subject.keywordsHealthy living
dc.subject.keywordsHuman development and sexual health
dc.subject.keywordsEvaluation
dc.subject.keywordsNeoliberal education
dc.subject.keywordsWelfare state
dc.subject.keywordsYouth activism
dc.subject.keywordsYouth participation
dc.subject.keywordsEmployment discourse
dc.subject.keywordsTextual analysis
dc.subject.keywordsCritical social theory
dc.subject.keywordsSchool
dc.subject.keywordsProjectism
dc.subject.keywords4Rs
dc.subject.keywordsRelationship
dc.subject.keywordsWell-being
dc.subject.keywordsHigh school
dc.subject.keywordsElementary school
dc.subject.keywordsSocial organization
dc.subject.keywordsDecision-making
dc.subject.keywordsSchool boards
dc.subject.keywordsWork
dc.subject.keywordsInclusion
dc.subject.keywordsInstitutional accountability circuit
dc.subject.keywordsTimetabling
dc.subject.keywordsRegulation
dc.subject.keywordsBiomedical
dc.subject.keywordsIdeological
dc.subject.keywordsEfficiency
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy
dc.subject.keywordsMarginalized
dc.subject.keywordsPower
dc.subject.keywordsControl
dc.titleExploring Youths' Understanding of Intimate Relationships Through the Education Sector: An Institutional Ethnography
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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