1st Edition

Young People's Voices in Physical Education and Youth Sport

Edited By Mary O'Sullivan, Ann MacPhail Copyright 2010
248 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How do children and young people experience and understand sport and physical activity? What value do they attach to physical education and physical literacy? This important new book attempts to engage more directly than ever before with the experiences of young people by placing the voices of the young people themselves at the centre of the discussion. As the need to listen to young people... Read more
Introduction: Revisioning Young People’s Voices in Physical Education and Sport  Part 1: Exploring Voice in Different Settings  1. Students’ Evolving Meanings and Experiences with Physical Activity and Sport  2. The Body, Physical Activity and Inequity: Learning to Listen with Girls through Action  3. Students’ Curricular Values and Experiences  Part 2: Multiple Identities Of Adolescent Populations  4. Finding Their Voice: Disaffected Youth Insights on Sport/Physical Activity Interventions  5. Using Ethnography to Explore The Experiences Of A Student With Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Physical Education  6. Hypermasculinity in Schools: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly  7. Looking Back, Looking Sideways: Adult Perspectives about Student Experiences of Queerness in Canadian Physical Education  Part 3: Theoretical Frames and Methodological Approaches  8. Push Play Every Day: New Zealand Children’s Constructions of Health and Physical Activity  9. "Carving A New Order" of  Experience With Young People in Physical Education: Participatory Action Research as a Pedagogy of Possibility  10. Got The Picture? Exploring Student Sport Experiences Using Photography as Voice  Epilogue Hearing, Listening and Acting

Biography

Mary O'Sullivan, Ann MacPhail

"The book addresses a number of important questions: How are experiencing and understand children and youth sport and physical activity? How do the physical activity and school physical education? Leading scientists in the fields of sports science and educational science has contributed chapters to various methodological and theoretical perspectives on how we can better understand children's perspectives in sport. Also presented the "case studies" from the (Anglo-Saxon) world, with boys and girls in different multicultural environments."–Mikael Londos