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Author Dowling, Fiona

Title Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health : a Narrative Approach
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Routledge studies in physical education and youth sport.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Theoretical perspectives; 1 Theorizing difference and (in)equality in physical education, youth sport and health; 2 A narrative approach to research in physical education, youth sport and health; Part II Stories of difference and (in)equality; Run rabbit, run; Young men, sport and sexuality: a poetic exploration; Inclusion in National Curriculum policy and physical education
'Miss Whitney' and 'Miss, are you a terrorist?': Negotiating a place within physical educationThe spark and discouragement of an innovative male physical educator; Second toe syndrome; Gendering running, gendering research: a collaborative trans narrative; Looking and 'feeling' the part; Holly goes to school to become a PE teacher ... and doesn't!: A three-act play; Them, us, we, me: negotiating being a Muslim girl in Australia; It's not for the school to tell us, Charlie ... after all, to us you are healthy big; Them special needs kids and their waiters; Making the grade; Dances with wolves
'You hurt me Fizz-Ed': the socially classed discursive practices of the PE lessonPart III Engaging with narratives; 3 Professional development and narrative inquiry; 4 Exemplar One: health, physical education, pupils, parents and teachers; 5 Exemplar Two: disability and difference in schooling and home; Index
Summary Issues of equity remain an essential theme throughout the study and practice of physical education (PE), youth sport and health. This important new book confronts and illuminates issues of equity and difference through the innovative use of narrative method, telling stories of difference that enable students, academics and professionals alike to engage both emotionally and cognitively with the subject. The book is arranged into three sections. The first provides an overview of current theory and research on difference and inequality in PE, youth sport and health, together with an intr
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Subject Discrimination in sports.
Physical education for children -- Social aspects
Sports -- Sex differences
Sports for children -- Social aspects
Sports for children with disabilities.
Discrimination in sports
Physical education for children -- Social aspects
Sports for children -- Social aspects
Sports for children with disabilities
Sports -- Sex differences
Form Electronic book
Author Fitzgerald, Hayley
Flintoff, Anne
ISBN 9781136478154
1136478159