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Direct linkDowling, Fiona; Flintoff, Anne – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Analyses of curricula in a range of countries show how they tend to reinforce, rather than challenge, popular theories of racism. To date, we know little about the contribution of physical education (PE) curriculum policy to the overall policy landscape. This paper examines the construction of race and racism in two national contexts (Norway and…
Descriptors: Race, Physical Education, Educational Policy, Critical Theory
Dowling, Fiona; Fitzgerald, Hayley; Flintoff, Anne – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Developing teacher education programmes founded upon principles of critical pedagogy and social justice has become increasingly difficult in the current neoliberal climate of higher education. In this article, we adopt a narrative approach to illuminate some of the dilemmas which advocates of education for social justice face and to reflect upon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Educators
Dowling, Fiona – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
The concept of the "professional teacher" is highly contestable, and the array of definitions that circulate in teacher education draw on competing theoretical and ideological positions. This paper explores what discourses about professionalism are currently available within Norwegian physical education teacher education (PETE) and, in…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Physical Education, Colleges, Teacher Collaboration
Dowling, Fiona; Karhus, Svein – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Physical education (PE) is a subject which has a long history of legitimising itself on the grounds of its contribution to pupils' social and moral welfare. It therefore seems probable that PE teacher education (PETE) might embrace recent calls for the need to re-moralise society due to the conditions of the late-modern age and not…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
Dowling, Fiona – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
This paper attempts to illustrate how embodied ways of knowing may enhance our theoretical understanding within the field of physical education teacher education (PETE). It seeks to illustrate how teacher educators' viewpoints and understanding of gender relations are inevitably linked to socially constructed webs of emotions, as much as to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Emotional Response, Human Relations, Physical Education Teachers
Dowling, Fiona – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: Despite the evidence that many girls and some boys are regularly subjected to inequalities within school physical education (PE) in Norway today, and international research showing how physical education teacher education (PETE) courses often construct unequal learning opportunities for their students on the basis of gender, few…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Foreign Countries
