The stigmatized physical educator
| Autor: | Jennifer L. Fisette |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Hegemony Social Psychology Personal narrative media_common.quotation_subject education Identity (social science) Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Autoethnography Physical education Embodied cognition Perception Pedagogy Personal experience Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. 7:466-487 |
| ISSN: | 2159-6778 2159-676X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/2159676x.2014.981574 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this autoethnography is to challenge the traditional, hegemonic, able-bodied identity of a physical educator and to create a space for ‘non-traditional’ physical educators to speak up about their personal experiences and embodied identities. Specifically, I utilise a personal narrative approach in my attempt to address issues of embodiment, ‘the body’ and illness in relation to my teacher identity, with a particular focus on how I have navigated a spinal injury, partial paralysis and lower back surgeries as a physical education teacher educator. Throughout this article, I first explore how my teacher identity was initially centred on my athletic, able-bodied self as a young, naive secondary physical education teacher. I then delve into how my teacher identity as a physical educator has been changed and altered due to an unexpected ‘illness’ and deteriorated physical conditions I have encountered over the past decade, causing me to question, challenge and critique my perceptions of my teache... |
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