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Abstract
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.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2014
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2014-0009
Repository Citation
Mallozzi, Christine A., "“The Personal Has Become Political”: A Secondary Teacher’s Perceptions of Her Body in the Classroom" (2014). Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications. 2.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/edc_facpub/2
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Notes/Citation Information
Published in Journal of Pedagogy, v. 5, no. 2.
© by Christine A. Mallozzi
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.