1st Edition

Gender and Physical Education Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

Edited By Dawn Penney Copyright 2002
242 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Gender and Physical Education offers a critical and comprehensive commentary on issues relating to gender in PE and teacher education. 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. The book delivers a critical analysis of the progress... Read more
Part One: Setting the Agenda 1. Introduction 2. Talking Gender 3. Physical Education: A Gendered History Part Two: Gender Agents 4. Difference Matters: Sexuality and Physical Education 5. Muslim Women in Teacher Training: Issues of Gender 6. Gender Positioning as Pedagogical Practice in Teaching Physical Education Part Three: Gender and Physical Education: Policies and Practice 7. Gendered Policies 8. Gender, Health and Physical Education 9. Understanding Girls' Experience of Physical Education: Relational Analysis and Situated Learning Part Four: Extending Gender Agendas in Physical Education 10. Gender Equality and Physical Education: A USA Perspective 11. Physical Education Teacher Education: Sites of Progress or Resistance 12. Extending Agendas: Physical Culture Research for the Twenty First Century

Biography

Dawn Penney