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Norms and Materialities in Physical Education and Health--'I Feel That I Cannot Contribute Enough in Sport'
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Ring, M.; Kristén, L.; Klingvall-Arvidsson, B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Many understandings about norms and norm criticism are based on imaginations of inclusion and exclusion as if values about right and wrong, and acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors belong to a world of relations that can be separated from embodied and physical things and practices. This preparatory study is based on interviews conducted with…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Inclusion, Children, Disabilities
A Salutogenic Strengths-Based Approach in Practice -- An Illustration from a School in Sweden
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Brolin, Magnus; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Maivorsdotter, Ninitha; Casey, Ashley – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2018
Despite an extensive debate and an openness of teachers to a strength-based approach to health and physical education, it is not always clear what a salutogenic strengths-based approach might look like in practice, at least not in the day-to-day work in schools. The purpose of this article is to present a salutogenic strengths-based school…
Descriptors: Health Education, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices
Heterotopias in Physical Education: Towards a Queer Pedagogy?
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Larsson, Håkan; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Öhman, Marie – Gender and Education, 2014
This article sets out to outline how prevailing gender structures can be challenged in physical education (PE) by exploring queer potentials in an event that took place during a dancing lesson in an upper secondary PE class. The event and its features were documented through video recording and post-lesson interviews with the teacher and some of…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Homosexuality, Physical Education, Dance Education
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
Normative Approaches to Justice in Physical Education for Pupils with Physical Disabilities--Dilemmas of Recognition and Redistribution
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Jerlinder, Kajsa; Danermark, Berth; Gill, Peter – Disability & Society, 2009
Seeking social justice in education for pupils with disabilities creates certain dilemmas. A "school for all" means that educators are faced with the dilemma whereby the notion of "disability" is perceived as ought not to matter but where in actual fact it seems to matter very much! This article explores ways out of this…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Physical Education, Social Status, Physical Disabilities
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