Constellating Emotional Dialogues in Secondary Education: Autoethnographic Insights into Queerness, Race, and Compassion

This innovative, autoethnographic study examines 12 stories of “wobble” moments—looking at “wobble” as an emotional experience—to illuminate new perspectives on LGBTQIA+ identity, school violence, racism, mental illness in students and teachers, and the emotional costs of empathy.

Utilizing the author’s experiences as they navigate education’s most difficult years of practice from 2020 to 2022 and extending the existing scholarship on dialogical pedagogy and teacher identity by offering a fr...