PHOTO-ELICITATION AS A TOOL TO LOOK INTO BODILY SUBJECTIVITIES OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

This study was aimed at knowing the media’s influence on the construction of future Physical Education (PE) teachers’ bodily subjectivities. Participants were eight future teachers (five male and three female). Photo-elicitation was used for analysis and interviews were used as data collection instruments. The results reflected how PE conceptions are clearly conditioned by teachers’ body prototypes. The most valued ones are muscular for men and slender and well-defined for women - something that is associated with the ideal model promoted by the media. They recognize that their bodies are their work tools and their ways to introduce themselves to others. We stress the importance of analyzing the body under a pedagogical approach linked to the creation of future teachers’ professional identities.

Keywords
Physical Education and Training; Qualitative Analysis; Body Composition