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Tani, Go; Bastos, Flávio Henrique; Silveira, Sérgio Roberto; Basso, Luciano; Corrêa, Umberto Cesar – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
In any field of knowledge, professional learning can be seen as a complex system: it involves the interaction of several components and these components change over time. Social needs, labor market, body of knowledge, faculty members, body of students and course curricula have been pointed out as some of these components that, when interacting,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Education Programs
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Maria Luíza Tanure Alves; Maria João Carvalheiro Campos – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
School physical education (PE) has been presented as a privilege for socially dominant groups recognized by their non-disabled bodies. This study aims to investigate the introduction of a 5-week Paralympic sports unit into the PE curriculum as an educational right for disabled students through its recognition as official knowledge representative…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Students with Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Beliefs
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Neto, Luiz Sanches; Venâncio, Luciana; Silva, Eduardo Vinícius Mota e; Ovens, Alan Patrick – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
Brazil is the largest and most influential country in South America with a population of about 211 million. The reality is a country with a wide gap between rich and poor. Many of its issues of (in)equity are related to a complex mix of factors, such as its large population, ethnic and cultural diversity, class and income disparity, late slavery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Social Justice
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Rodrigues, Cae; Payne, Phillip G. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2017
'Environmentalizing' curriculum in Brazil is a worthy goal of global educational reform for sustainability but is challenging given the limits to rational change thesis already argued in critical social science and post-structural deconstructionism. The federal government mandate to environmentalize undergraduate physical education programs poses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Physical Education
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Müller, Antonio Jose; Rossatto, César Augusto – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2016
Sports in our society are a source of enthusiasm for many people, reflecting their cultural values and at times social tensions. Body capital development in different countries follow the local culture and politics. Since schools tend to reproduce the culture at large, sports are also one intrinsic representation replicated. Physical education or…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Critical Theory
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Bracht, Valter; Gomes, Ivan Marcelo; de Almeida, Felipe Quintão – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
This article discusses the implications of the contemporary transition from a solid modernity to a liquid modernity for school physical education, according to the metaphors adopted by the Polish sociologist and English resident Zygmunt Bauman. By leveraging Bauman's sociological theory, this article pursues two aims: (1) to examine how physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Change, Human Body, Educational Practices