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"It's Just Because We're Girls": How Female Students Experience and Negotiate Masculinist School Sport
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McSharry, Majella – Irish Educational Studies, 2017
This article focuses on the inequalities experienced particularly by girls who attend co-educational secondary schools where specific male sports dominate school life. The research was undertaken in the Republic of Ireland in three schools known for the participation and success of boys' teams in Gaelic football, hurling and rugby. Through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Secondary School Students, Coeducation
Physical Education "in All Sorts of Corners:" Student Activists Transgressing Formal Physical Education Curricular Boundaries
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Enright, Eimear; O'Sullivan, Mary – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2012
The data for this paper were generated during a 3-year, participatory action research project, with 41 female coresearchers and activists ages 15-19 years old, within and beyond the walls of a secondary school. The two questions we sought to answer were (a) what happens when we engage with students to challenge formal physical education curricular…
Descriptors: Action Research, Participatory Research, Females, Secondary School Students
"Now, I'm Magazine Detective the Whole Time": Listening and Responding to Young People's Complex Experiences of Popular Physical Culture
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Enright, Eimear; O'Sullivan, Mary – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2013
Popular physical culture serves as a site, subject and medium for young people's learning (Sandford & Rich, 2006) and impacts their relationship with physical education, physical activity and the construction of their embodied identities. This paper addresses the potential of scrapbooking as a pedagogical and methodological tool to facilitate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Popular Culture, Physical Education, Action Research
"Can I Do It in My Pajamas?" Negotiating a Physical Education Curriculum with Teenage Girls
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Enright, Eimear; O'Sullivan, Mary – European Physical Education Review, 2010
The data for this paper were generated during a three-year, Participatory Action Research project, with 41 15-19-year-old female co-researchers and activists, within and beyond the walls of a secondary school. The purpose of the larger study was to work with these students to understand and transform their self-identified barriers to physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Females, Adolescents
Publication Trends in the "Journal of Teaching in Physical Education" from 1981 to 2005
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Ward, Phillip; Ko, Bomna – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2006
We examined publication trends in the "Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (JTPE)" in terms of total representation as well as trends by decade of the (a) sex and country of affiliation of editors, (b) sex and country of affiliation of editorial board members, (c) sex and country of affiliation of first authors, (d) types of…
Descriptors: Publications, Trend Analysis, Physical Education, Sex
Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98. Volume 1. Containing Part I
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United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1899
This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner's Introduction and Statistics of State Common School Systems. Part I covers the topics: (1) History of the German School System; (2) Summer Schools in England, Scotland, France, and Switzerland; (3)…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Statistical Data, Educational History, Summer Schools