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Shifting Positions in Physical Education--Notes on Otherness, Sameness, Absence and Presence
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Berg, Paivi – Ethnography and Education, 2010
This article examines the experiences of the researched and the researcher using ethnographic data from interviews with students (13-14-year-olds) and teachers and from participant observation in physical education classes at a Finnish secondary school. Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective is used as a frame of reference. In this…
Descriptors: Feminism, Physical Education, Participant Observation, Ethnography
Gendering Processes in the Field of Physical Education
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Berg, Paivi; Lahelma, Elina – Gender and Education, 2010
In Finnish secondary schools, girls and boys are taught physical education (PE) in separate groups. A male teacher normally teaches the boys and a female teacher teaches the girls. Focusing on PE teachers' comments in two different ethnographic studies of seventh graders (13-14-year-olds), we examine the processes that reproduce or challenge the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Secondary School Students, Grade 7