Non-normative corporalities and transgender identity in English as a Foreign Language student teachers
| Autor: | Harold Castañeda-Peña, Diego Ubaque-Casallas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Sexual identity Self media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Transgender identity 050301 education Identity (social science) Femininity Pedagogy Transgender Normative 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences General Materials Science Psychology 0503 education Social theory media_common |
| Zdroj: | HOW. 27:13-30 |
| ISSN: | 0120-5927 |
| DOI: | 10.19183/how.27.2.548 |
| Popis: | Little international research exists on EFL (English as a Foreign Language) student teachers regarding transgender identity and non-normative corporalities. Similarly, few studies in Colombia have investigated the concept of teacher identity of transgender EFL student teachers to understand this dimension of identity. This study explores the transgender/blind identity of an EFL student teacher. The study took on identity as multiple and fluid to understand how transgender identity serves a lens to shape the process of becoming a teacher. Findings suggest that transgender identity is made from either experiences that modify or re-construct the self. The study revealed that the notion of gender is contested when the idea of transgender works as a personal mechanism to question the existing normativity of one’s own body and the self. Identity is then presented as a series of choices and performances situated in time that are validated in the transgender and blind condition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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