Description
Book SynopsisIn 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 âgirl-friendlyâ physical education.
The book locates our understanding of the experiences of girls in physical education in the broader context of young peopleâs 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 pedago
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. The same old story: the reproduction and recycling of a dominant narrative in research on physical education for girls 3. Student Centred Pedagogy 4. Pedagogies of Embodiment 5. Inquiry based education centred in action 6. Listening and Responding Over Time 7. Possibilities for research and physical education from an activist perspective
