@article{Ubaque-Casallas_Castañeda-Peña_2020, title={Non-normative corporalities and transgender identity in English as a Foreign Language student teachers}, volume={27}, url={https://www.howjournalcolombia.org/index.php/how/article/view/548}, DOI={10.19183/how.27.2.548}, abstractNote={<p>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.</p>}, number={2}, journal={HOW}, author={Ubaque-Casallas, Diego and Castañeda-Peña, Harold}, year={2020}, month={Aug.}, pages={13–30} }