Gender and Physical Education offers a critical and comprehensive commentary on issues relating to gender in PE and teacher education. 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 material. The book delivers a critical analysis of the progress and shortcomings pf contemporary policies and practice in PE as they relate to gender, and reflects on the similarities and differences between developments in the UK, US and Australia. It also offers a new framework for research, policy and practice with a view to advancing gender equity, and addresses the roles that teachers, educators and policy makers can play in challenging existing inequalities. Gender and Physical Education is important reading for students and lecturers in education, teacher educators and providers of continuing professional development in PE, and anybody concerned with gender issues in education, PE or sport.
Author(s): Dawn Penney
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 248
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Setting the agenda......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Talking gender......Page 26
Physical education: a gendered history......Page 37
Gender agendas......Page 52
Difference matters: sexuality and physical education......Page 54
Muslim women in teacher training: issues of gender, 'race' and religion......Page 70
Gender positioning as pedagogical practice in teaching physical education......Page 93
Gender and physical education: policies and practice......Page 114
Gendered policies......Page 116
Gender, health and physical education......Page 136
Understanding girls' experience of physical education: relational analysis and situated learning......Page 159
Extending gender agendas in physical education......Page 174
Gender equity and physical education: a USA perspective......Page 176
Physical education teacher education: sites of progress or resistance......Page 203
Extending agendas: physical culture research for the twenty-first century......Page 221
Index......Page 236
