“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: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Pedagogy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 183-207

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2014-11-25

Contributors

author

Christine A. Mallozzi

• Assistant Professor University of Kentucky Literacy Education Curriculum & Instruction 335 Dickey Hall Lexington Kentucky 40506

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/jped-2014-0009