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Exploring Movement Learning in Physical Education Using a Threshold Approach
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Barker, Dean; Nyberg, Gunn; Larsson, Hakan – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2020
Purpose: To describe student learning when physical education teacher and students attempted to develop movement capability. Methods: The study reports on the implementation of a 10-lesson pedagogical sequence. Data were generated using observations, interviews, and student diaries with one grade 9 class (26 students aged approximately 15 years)…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Human Body, Sequential Approach, Learning Processes
Moving (in) the Heterosexual Matrix. On Heteronormativity in Secondary School Physical Education
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Larsson, Hakan; Redelius, Karin; Fagrell, Birgitta – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Studies on heteronormativity in PE either appear to have explored the experiences of and conditions for non-heterosexual students, or adopt a retrospective point of view. Further, the relation between heteronormativity and movement and how movement activities embody social norms and values related to gender and sexuality has not been…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
The Game within the Game: Girls' Underperforming Position in Physical Education
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Fagrell, Birgitta; Larsson, Hakan; Redelius, Karin – Gender and Education, 2012
Since 1980 the Swedish compulsory school curriculum has stipulated that Physical Education (PE) should be taught co-ed and schools are legally required to promote gender equality. The latest evaluation of PE in Sweden shows that more boys than girls ranked the subject highly and that they had a higher level of activity during the PE lessons.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Females, Sex Fairness
Symbolic Capital in Physical Education and Health: To Be, to Do or to Know? That Is the Gendered Question
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Redelius, Karin; Fagrell, Birgitta; Larsson, Hakan – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
The way teachers' in Sweden reason about assessment and grading in physical education and health is in focus in this article. The central question is to investigate what teachers' believe are the goals of the subject, important knowledge in the subject and criteria for assessment in physical education (PE) health. With this study we take up a…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Grading, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Swedish Physical Education Research Questioned--Current Situation and Future Directions
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Larsson, Hakan; Redelius, Karin – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: Research on the school subject of physical education and health in Sweden has proliferated in the early part of the 21st century. Several large research programmes have been conducted that shed light on the history of physical education and health in this country and that provide a research-based description of the current situation in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Leisure Time
Queering Physical Education. Between Benevolence towards Girls and a Tribute to Masculinity
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Larsson, Hakan; Fagrell, Birgitta; Redelius, Karin – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2009
Background: Research on PE indicates that the subject is marked by rather stable gendered patterns of behaviour and perceptions of the subject. This paper marks an attempt to outline a theoretical approach that makes it possible to interpret what is going on in the gym in a way that might challenge the reproduction of gender. Purpose: To…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Sex Stereotypes, Females