No Body Is Perfect
This section will give teachers background information to the development of the materials and will highlight important factors that need to be considered when teaching about body image and gender.
This resource provides teachers with a series of teaching and learning activities which they can incorporate into their PDHPE program.
Unit one: It's alright to be me
Attitudes to body shape and image are socially and culturally developed. Our beliefs on how we should look and what constitutes an ideal body shape need to be challenged. We need to recognise and question the social conditioning which constantly shapes ideal body images and reassess our attitudes to our own bodies.
Our masculine and feminine behaviours are learned. This occurs as we establish our identity and try to fit into society. By examining the way society constructs genderand what it means to be male and female in our society, we can challenge stereotypical social expectations of feminity and masculinity.
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