"Walking Yourself around as a Teacher": Gender and Embodiment in Student Teachers' Working Lives

Autor/in	Braun, Annette
Titel	"Walking Yourself around as a Teacher": Gender and Embodiment in Student Teachers' Working Lives
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 32 (2011) 2, S.275-291 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; Professional Occupations; Sexuality; Educational Environment; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Social Class; Gender Issues; Masculinity; Feminism; Teacher Education; Educational Sociology; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Berufsklassifikation; Sexualität; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterfrage; Männlichkeit; Feminismus; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper considers the psychic and social dynamics reported by student teachers when learning to embody their teacher persona in the secondary school environment. Focusing on gender dimensions of embodiment and drawing on qualitative interview data from a UK study of postgraduate teacher-training students, teaching is examined as a physical experience. The paper conceptualises findings under two related headings: the appropriately gendered body, signified by heteronormative readings of gender and sexuality; and the gendered authoritative body, conceptualised as male. The "teacher body" emerges as an important element of student teachers' stories of trying to fit with the new professional environment and the paper concludes by arguing for a consideration of gender and body politics in the practice and training of teachers, thus challenging the assumption that professional occupations are essentially "disembodied" and gender neutral. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10