In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and well-being as a result. This book challenges the conventional narrative that girls are somehow to blame for this disengagement, and instead identifies important new ways of working with girls, developing a new pedagogical model for girl-friendly physical education.
The book locates our understanding of the experiences of girls in physical education in the broader context of young peoples multifaceted engagements with popular physical culture. Adopting an activist perspective, it outlines a programme of action informed by principled pragmatism and based on four critical elements: student-centred pedagogy; critical study of embodiment; inquiry-based physical education centred-in-action, and listening and responding to girls over time. It explores the implications of this new thinking for teaching, research, PETE and policy, and outlines a future agenda for work in this area.
Offering a profound theoretical critique of contemporary research and practice, as well as a new programme of action,Girls, Gender and Physical Education is essential reading for all researchers, advanced students and practitioners with an interest in the issues of gender, equity and inclusion in physical education.
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The task for activist pedagogy: valuing the physically active life |
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Pragmatism and the politics of possibility |
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Towards a pedagogical model for working with girls in physical education? |
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2 The same old story: the reproduction and recycling of a dominant narrative in research on physical education for girls |
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The same old story: what is the evidence? |
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Researchers and a parasitic media: a case in point |
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3 Student-centred pedagogy |
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Research on student-centredness in physical education |
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Student-centred pedagogy within an activist approach |
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4 Pedagogies of embodiment |
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Embodiment and physical education |
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Embodiment within an activist approach |
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5 Inquiry-based education centred in action |
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Critical inquiry/Critical pedagogy in physical education research |
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Inquiry-based education centred in action: an activist approach |
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Physical education re-conceptualized |
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Re-conceptualizing physical education: implications |
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6 Listening and responding over time |
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Student-centred inquiry as curriculum: a systematic way of listening and responding |
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Listening to respond over time: what it looks like in practice |
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7 Possibilities for research and physical education from an activist perspective |
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Implications for future research |
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Implications for future physical education |
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Kimberly L. Oliver is a Professor of Physical Education Teacher Education in the Department of Kinesiology and Dance at New Mexico State University, USA where she directs the Physical Education Teacher Education Program. Working in the traditions of feminist, critical and activist research and pedagogies, her interest is in learning how teachers can assist girls in exploring, critiquing, and transforming personal and cultural barriers that limit their health and physical activity opportunities. More recently, Oliver has moved into studying the impact that a field-based, student-centered and inquiry-oriented methods course has on pre-service teachers abilities to be student-centered physical educators. She has published widely in both physical education and general education journals
David Kirk is currently Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He is an educational researcher with teaching and research interests in educational innovation, curriculum history, and physical education and sport pedagogy. Kirk is founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Routledge) and editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport. He has previously held academic appointments at universities in England, Australia, Ireland and Belgium and is currently Honorary Professor of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published widely on physical education and sport pedagogy and published Physical Education Futures (Routledge) in 2010
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