THE PERSONAL HAS BECOME POLITICAL”: A SECONDARY TEACHER’S PERCEPTIONS OF HER BODY IN THE CLASSROOM

• Authors: Christine A. Mallozzi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this paper is to examine how a secondary English teacher considered her body a personal and political matter within her professional settings. Discourse analysis of the participant’s narrative evidences that women teachers are pressured to present certain feminine and heterosexual bodies and present a similar personal life within their pedagogy. The risk in not following suit is being pushed out of the profession, a matter that can be problematic especially when a teacher undergoes personal changes counter to professional expectations. Teacher education responsibility in preparing teacher candidates for a variable professional trajectory is noted.

Keywords

EN

TEACHER; BODY; HETEROSEXISM; DISCOURSE; PERSONAL LIFE

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 183 – 207

Contributors

author

Christine A. Mallozzi

• University of Kentucky, Literacy Education, Curriculum & Instruction, 335 Dickey Hall, Lexington Kentucky, 40506, USA