A Discussion on English Language Students’ Body Image: Beauty Standards and Fatness
In this qualitative study, we intend to discuss how adolescent students in a Brazilian public school classroom define their body image and personalize the themes beauty standards and fatness. Grounded on a critical approach to language teaching, these two social themes were problematized in eight le...
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| description | In this qualitative study, we intend to discuss how adolescent students in a Brazilian public school classroom define their body image and personalize the themes beauty standards and fatness. Grounded on a critical approach to language teaching, these two social themes were problematized in eight lessons of Ensino Médio (secondary education). The discussion of the empirical material suggests that (1) body image is strongly connected to gendered relations, making life experiences of men and women different based on the bodies they have, and (2) beauty standard and fatness are strongly related to students’ lives since twelve out of nineteen students personalized the themes by telling oppressive stories they went through because of their bodies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aeef1f891fc842808e420d142aa802522023-08-02T05:00:49ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaProfile Issues in Teachers' Professional Development1657-07902019-01-01211132610.15446/profile.v21n1.69603A Discussion on English Language Students’ Body Image: Beauty Standards and FatnessPedro Augusto de Lima Bastos0Rosane Rocha Pessoa1Universidade Federal de GoiásUniversidade Federal de GoiásIn this qualitative study, we intend to discuss how adolescent students in a Brazilian public school classroom define their body image and personalize the themes beauty standards and fatness. Grounded on a critical approach to language teaching, these two social themes were problematized in eight lessons of Ensino Médio (secondary education). The discussion of the empirical material suggests that (1) body image is strongly connected to gendered relations, making life experiences of men and women different based on the bodies they have, and (2) beauty standard and fatness are strongly related to students’ lives since twelve out of nineteen students personalized the themes by telling oppressive stories they went through because of their bodies.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/69603Beauty standardcritical language teachingfatnesssocial themes |
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