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Gender and physical education : contemporary issues and future directions
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Gender and physical education : contemporary issues and future directions

Author: Dawn Penney
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Research by sports historians and sociologists show that many of the games and sports continuing to be part of the PE curriculum were created to promote and maintain dominant forms of femininity and masculinity. This book offers a critical and comprehensive commentary on issues relating to gender in PE and teacher education and challenges our understandings of gender, equity and identity in PE. Presenting a wealth  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dawn Penney
ISBN: 0415235758 9780415235754 0415235766 9780415235761 9780203468883 0203468880
OCLC Number: 48056729
Description: xii, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: John Evans and Dawn Penney --
Talking gender / Dawn Penney and John Evans --
Physical education: a gendered history / David Kirk --
difference matters: sexuality and physical education / Gill Clarke --
Muslim women in teacher training: issues of gender, 'race' and religion / Tansin Benn --
Gender positioning as pedagogical practice in teaching physical education / David Brown and Emma Rich --
Gendered policies / Dawn Penney --
Gender, health and physical education / Jo Harris and Dawn Penney --
Understanding girls'experience of physical education: relational analysis and situated learning / Anne Williams and Julie Bedward --
Gender equity and physical education: a USA perspective / Mary O'Sullivan, Kim Bush and Margaret Gehring --
Physical education teacher education: sites of progress or resistance / Jan Wright --
Extending agendas: physical culture research for the twenty-first century / Doune MacDonald.
Responsibility: edited by Dawn Penney.
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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  Read more...

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