Girls Gender and Physical Education

Girls  Gender and Physical Education
Author: Kimberly L. Oliver,David Kirk
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781317749929

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In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and well-being as a result. This book challenges the conventional narrative that girls are somehow to blame for this disengagement, and instead identifies important new ways of working with girls, developing a new pedagogical model for ‘girl-friendly’ physical education. The book locates our understanding of the experiences of girls in physical education in the broader context of young people’s multifaceted engagements with popular physical culture. Adopting an activist perspective, it outlines a programme of action informed by principled pragmatism and based on four critical elements: student-centred pedagogy; critical study of embodiment; inquiry-based physical education centred-in-action, and listening and responding to girls over time. It explores the implications of this new thinking for teaching, research, PETE and policy, and outlines a future agenda for work in this area. Offering a profound theoretical critique of contemporary research and practice, as well as a new programme of action, Girls, Gender and Physical Education is essential reading for all researchers, advanced students and practitioners with an interest in the issues of gender, equity and inclusion in physical education.

Shaping Up to Womanhood

Shaping Up to Womanhood
Author: Sheila Scraton
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1992
Genre: Feminist theory
ISBN: UCSC:32106017914257

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Opening with an account of feminist theoretical perspectives and applying this work to girls' physical education, this text traces the foundations and traditions of girls' PE, identifying ideologies of physical ability/capacity, motherhood/domesticity, and sexuality that inform PE today.

Sporty Girls

Sporty Girls
Author: Sheryl Clark
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9783030672492

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This book engages with the ongoing question of why many girls stop doing sport and physical activity in their teenage years. Previous research has found that many girls’ disengagement from sport takes place despite their childhood enjoyment and that frequently these same women take up sport again as adults. Within these chapters, Sheryl Clark explores what it is about this period of time that persuades many girls to disengage from sports when their male peers continue to take part; why some girls continue to take part; and most importantly how girls understand this participation. She suggests that girls’ participation in sport should be viewed as part of their ongoing constructions of ‘successful girlhood’ within a competitive schooling system and broader socioeconomic context.

Girls Gender and Physical Education

Girls  Gender and Physical Education
Author: Kimberly L. Oliver,David Kirk
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781317749912

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In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and well-being as a result. This book challenges the conventional narrative that girls are somehow to blame for this disengagement, and instead identifies important new ways of working with girls, developing a new pedagogical model for ‘girl-friendly’ physical education. The book locates our understanding of the experiences of girls in physical education in the broader context of young people’s multifaceted engagements with popular physical culture. Adopting an activist perspective, it outlines a programme of action informed by principled pragmatism and based on four critical elements: student-centred pedagogy; critical study of embodiment; inquiry-based physical education centred-in-action, and listening and responding to girls over time. It explores the implications of this new thinking for teaching, research, PETE and policy, and outlines a future agenda for work in this area. Offering a profound theoretical critique of contemporary research and practice, as well as a new programme of action, Girls, Gender and Physical Education is essential reading for all researchers, advanced students and practitioners with an interest in the issues of gender, equity and inclusion in physical education.

The Female Tradition in Physical Education

The Female Tradition in Physical Education
Author: David Kirk,Patricia Vertinsky
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781317480358

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The Female Tradition in Physical Education re-examines a key question in the history of modern education: why did the remarkably successful leaders of female physical education, who pioneered the development of the subject in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, lose control in the years following the Second World War? Despite the later resurgence of second wave feminism they never regained a voice, with the result that male leadership was able to shift the curriculum in ways that neglected the needs and interests of girls and young women. Drawing on new sources and a range of historiographical approaches, and touching on related fields such as therapeutic exercise and dance, the book examines the development of physical education for girls in a number of countries to offer an alternative explanation to the dominant narrative of the ‘demise’ of the female tradition. Providing an important contextualization for the state of contemporary female physical education, this is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the development of sport and physical education, women’s and gender history, and physical culture more generally.

Gender Equity Through Physical Education and Sport

Gender Equity Through Physical Education and Sport
Author: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1995
Genre: Educational equalization
ISBN: UVA:X002645561

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Gender and Physical Education

Gender and Physical Education
Author: Dawn Penney
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415235758

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The book challenges our understandings of gender, equity and identity in PE, establishing a conceptual and historical foundation for the issue, as well as presenting a wealth of original research material.

Gender and Physical Education

Gender and Physical Education
Author: Dawn Penney
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781134563333

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The book challenges our understandings of gender, equity and identity in PE, establishing a conceptual and historical foundation for the issue, as well as presenting a wealth of original research material.