1st Edition

Physical Education, Curriculum And Culture Critical Issues In The Contemporary Crisis

Edited By David Kirk, Richard Tinning Copyright 1990
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

This collection of studies addresses contemporary issues and problems in the physical education curriculum. While each of the chapters illustrates the diverse range of practical curriculum issues currently facing physical education, the continuities between them also suggest a certain commonality of experience in Britain, North America and Au tralia. In each it is difficult not to detect at least... Read more
General Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments, Chapter 1 Introduction: Physical Education, Curriculum and Culture, Chapter 2 A Critical Analysis of the Hidden Curriculum in Physical Education, Chapter 3 Defining the Subject: Gymnastics and Gender in British Physical Education, Chapter 4 Oppression and Privilege in Physical Education: Struggles in the Negotiation of Gender in a University Programme, Chapter 5 Pedagogy as Text in Physical Education Teacher Education: Beyond the Preferred Reading, Chapter 6 Ability, Position and Privilege in School Physical Education, Chapter 7 Challenging Hegemonic Physical Education: Contextualizing Physical Education as an Examinable Subject, Chapter 8 Winners, Losers and the Myth of Rational Change in Physical Education: Towards an Understanding of Interests and Power in Innovation, Chapter 9 Images of Healthism in Health-Based Physical Education, Notes on Contributors, Index

Biography

Richard Tinning