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Kicking at the Habitus: Students' Reading of Critical Pedagogy in PETE
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Philpot, Rod; Smith, Wayne; Tinning, Richard – Sport, Education and Society, 2021
This paper reports the findings of a research project that sought to understand how a group of 19 graduating physical education teacher education (PETE) students' biographies served to mediate their understanding of the messages of their PETE programme, which was underpinned by a critical pedagogy philosophy. We use the Bourdieuian concepts of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Biographies
Taking Action for Social Justice in HPE Classrooms through Explicit Critical Pedagogies
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Philpot, Rod; Gerdin, Göran; Smith, Wayne; Linnér, Susanne; Schenker, Katarina; Westlie, Knut; Mordal Moen, Kjersti; Larsson, Lena – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: A focus on equity, democracy and social justice in HPE is pertinent in an era where there are growing concerns about the impact of neoliberal globalisation and precariousness of society (Kirk 2020). Although there is advocacy for teaching approaches in HPE that address issues of social justice, there is limited empirical research of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Action, Critical Theory, Reflective Teaching
Making a Different Difference: Physical Education Teacher Education Students' Reading of Critical PETE Program
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Philpot, Rod; Smith, Wayne – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2018
In New Zealand and Australia, the extant research base in physical education teacher education (PETE) has, for some time, reported on the rationale for, and enactment of, socially critical perspectives. However, this research has largely explicated teaching strategies and the challenges faced by teacher educators who adopt this perspective, with…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Social Justice
It Is Only an Intervention, but It Can Sow Very Fertile Seeds: Graduate Physical Education Teachers' Interpretations of Critical Pedagogy
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Gerdin, Göran; Philpot, Rod; Smith, Wayne – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
The role that school health and physical education (HPE) plays in the making of physically active and healthy citizens continues to be rearticulated within the field of HPE practice. In Australasia, for example, this is evident in HPE curricula changes that now span almost two decades with ongoing advocacy for greater recognition of socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate School Faculty, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education
An Alternative to Kirk's Idea of the Idea and a Future for Physical Education
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Smith, Wayne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2011
In his book "Physical Education Futures" (Routledge, London) David Kirk (2010) introduces the notion of the idea of the idea of physical education, which challenges all physical educators to think more deeply and broadly about physical education as a school subject. The notion of the idea of the idea enables a "big picture"…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Critical Theory, Debate, Adoption (Ideas)