Physical education vs Instragram: Educating young people to understand body image. My Personal Experience From my experience of teaching physical education in an all girls secondary school it was clear to me that the students have a very different upbringing to the one that I had only a few years ago, and the main reason for this altered perception is social media. Hardly a day went by where I didn’t have a student ask me to grant them permission because they wanted to take a selfie because “Miss, the lighting is just so good in here.” Sometimes it was encouraging, as students wanted to record games they were playing in PE because they enjoyed them so much, however it is that feeling of “if its not on my insta miss it didn’t really happen” that shows just how deeply affected these students are by social media. In one particular case, I was teaching a HRA circuit to a class and a number of students asked me if they did workouts like this more often would they have ...
