THE BODY MANIPULATIONS ON THE SOCIAL IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF FEMALE STUDENTS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES

Abstract

The objective of the work was to analyze the social image of teenage girls in the Physical Education classes of the senior year of High School in a State school in the city of Marechal Cândido Rondon, Paraná, in order to verify the articulations between the representations of the students and the body manipulations produced by them to validate the image demanded in the interactions experienced in class. Referring to the notions of representation and of body manipulations, observations and semi-structured interviews were performed to describe and analyze the attributes of the face presented by the students and the schemes of their acting line in relation to the body manipulations. Having developed the analysis in categories, it was concluded that the representation of the social image of the teenage girls in Physical Education classes is a consequence of the body manipulations performed by them, and the choices of these manipulations are characterized as strategies related to other people in the group and the educational situation.