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Hill, Joanne – Gender and Education, 2015
Within physical education and sport, girls must navigate discourses of valued athletic and gendered bodies that marginalise or "other" non-normative performances through systems of surveillance and punishment. The purpose of this paper is to share girls' perspectives on how these discourses affected their gender performances and activity…
Descriptors: Females, Human Body, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
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Berg, Paivi; Lahelma, Elina – Gender and Education, 2010
In Finnish secondary schools, girls and boys are taught physical education (PE) in separate groups. A male teacher normally teaches the boys and a female teacher teaches the girls. Focusing on PE teachers' comments in two different ethnographic studies of seventh graders (13-14-year-olds), we examine the processes that reproduce or challenge the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Secondary School Students, Grade 7