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Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Approach (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport) by Kimberly L. Oliver; David Kirk is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In 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 'girl-friendly' physical education. The book locates our understanding of the experiences of girls in physical education in the broader context of young people's 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 pedagogy; critical study of embodiment; inquiry-based physical education centred-in-action, and listening and responding to girls over time. It explores the implications of this new thinking for teaching, research,

Who reads Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Approach (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport)?

Author

Kimberly L. Oliver; David Kirk

Publisher

London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315796239

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Sports, Anthropology