ERIC Number: EJ1064575
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 18
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"If You Miss the Ball, You Look Like a Total Muppet!" Boys Investing in Their Bodies in Physical Education and Sport
Hill, Joanne
Sport, Education and Society, v20 n6 p762-779 2015
Connections have been drawn between masculinity, muscularity and physical or social status in sport. Not only are sporting bodies often related to masculinity but also to whiteness, leading to the devaluing of Asian boys' bodies and sporting experiences. This paper draws on three British Asian teenage boys' visual and verbal narratives to enquire how they negotiate these connections in their physical education and recreational sport experiences. Bourdieu's notion of capital is used to make sense of boys' ways of investing in their bodies to manage their status in school. Drawing from focus-group interviews which used participant-driven photography and photo elicitation techniques, the research indicates how three boys invested in their bodies by doing particular types of physical activity that would enable them to develop muscularity, fitness and/or motor competence, to attain or retain physical and social capital in school. Along the way, they add pertinent comments on the intersections of masculinity and ethnicity in constructing and performing a sporting body.
Descriptors: Males, Athletics, Physical Education, Human Body, Masculinity, Sex Stereotypes, Social Status, Racial Differences, Asians, Foreign Countries, Early Adolescents, Single Sex Classes, Interviews, Photography, Personal Narratives, Student Attitudes, Physical Activities, Ethnography, Psychomotor Skills, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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