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Sánchez-Hernández, Nuria; Martos-García, Daniel; Soler, Susanna; Flintoff, Anne – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Research continues to highlight how gender is reproduced through pedagogical practice in Physical Education (PE), but there has been much less focus on how it might be challenged. This paper reports on an intervention that used cooperative learning and critical reflection to challenge gender relations in PE, using football, in a school in…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Physical Education, Cooperative Learning, Team Sports
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Burner, Allison; Bopp, Melissa; Papalia, Zack; Weimer, Alison; Bopp, Christopher M. – Physical Educator, 2019
The decline in physical activity (PA) from youth to young adulthood is evident, though limited research has addressed whether specific factors of K-12 physical education (PE) have any influence on outcomes during college years. This study examined the relationship between college students' physical fitness and PA behavior and their high school PE…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, High School Students, College Students
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Vorotilkin?, Irina M.; Anokhina, Olga V.; Galitsyn, Sergey V.; Byankina, Larisa V.; Chiligin, Dmitriy V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Gender approach in education is a specific impact on the development of boys and girls by the set of factors of education and training process. The objective of this research is the reasoning of applying gender approach at physical culture lessons and creating comfortable environment taking into account the psychophysiological differences of the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Physical Education, Coeducation, Single Sex Classes
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Lentillon-Kaestner, Vanessa; Roure, Cédric – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: A student's choice to engage in a learning task is highly related to the student's environmental stimuli and his or her perception of interest. From this perspective, the construct of situational interest (SI) has been used to interpret students' motivation in task engagement. SI is assumed to be transitory, environmentally activated,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Coeducation, Single Sex Classes, Student Participation
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Woodson-Smith, Andrea; Dorwart, Catherine E.; Linder, Amy – Physical Educator, 2015
The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of female high school students toward PE in selected North Carolina schools. The high schools were conveniently selected to include the Northeast Piedmont urban region of North Carolina. Participants consisted of 102 female students aged 14 to 18 years old who were enrolled in ninth to 12th…
Descriptors: Females, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Physical Education
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Kiley, Jill; Robinson, Daniel Bruce – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This article presents the results from a qualitative case study that examined the influencers upon a somewhat unique group of female students who opted out of elective physical education (PE). More specifically, this study focused upon female students attending an affluent private school, investigating why--when they transitioned from middle…
Descriptors: Females, Decision Making, Enrollment Influences, Elective Courses
Kanwal, Huma; Jorgensen, Robyn – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2014
This paper explores the participation of Muslim girls in Health, Physical Education (HPE) and Sports in Brisbane Muslim and non-Muslim schools. The debate of Muslim women's' participation in sports is strongly entwined with firmly held beliefs inherited through culture, religion, politics and tradition regarding the female body. Specifically, this…
Descriptors: Muslims, Team Sports, Females, Extracurricular Activities
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Koca, Canan; Asci, F. Hulya; Demirhan, Giyasettin – Adolescence San Diego, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine attitudes toward physical education (PE and PE class preferences of high school Turkish students in terms of school gender composition; 213 girls and 249 boys from coeducational public schools, and 196 girls and 210 boys from single-sex vocational schools participated in the study. The Attitudes Toward…
Descriptors: Vocational Schools, Physical Education, Student Attitudes, High School Students
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Hannon, James; Ratliffe, Thomas – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of coeducational (coed) and single-gender game-play settings on the activity levels of Caucasian and African American high school physical education students. Students participated in flag football, ultimate Frisbee, and soccer units. Classes were as follows: there were two coed classes, two…
Descriptors: Females, Physical Education, Males, African American Students