A Whitewashed Curriculum? The Construction of Race in Contemporary PE Curriculum Policy

Autor/inn/en	Dowling, Fiona; Flintoff, Anne
Titel	A Whitewashed Curriculum? The Construction of Race in Contemporary PE Curriculum Policy
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 23 (2018) 1, S.1-13 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2015.1122584
Schlagwörter	Race; Physical Education; Educational Policy; Critical Theory; National Curriculum; Content Analysis; Discourse Analysis; Whites; Foreign Countries; Racial Bias; Educational Research; Norway; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Kritische Theorie; Inhaltsanalyse; Diskursanalyse; White; Weißer; Ausland; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Norwegen
Abstract	Analyses of curricula in a range of countries show how they tend to reinforce, rather than challenge, popular theories of racism. To date, we know little about the contribution of physical education (PE) curriculum policy to the overall policy landscape. This paper examines the construction of race and racism in two national contexts (Norway and England) as a means of putting race and anti-racism on the PE policy research agenda. It adopts a critical whiteness perspective to analyse how whiteness, as a system of privilege, contributes to the racialisation of valued knowledge in PE and asks, who potentially benefits and/or is marginalised within the learning spaces available in the texts? The discourse analysis reveals that two discursive techniques of whiteness combine to privilege white, Eurocentric knowledge content. Unmarked white PE practices and students are constructed as universal, normative and contingent. As a result, non-white PE practices and students are positioned on the margins in contemporary policy texts. By revealing the racialisation processes evident in the texts, we aim to trouble the profession's taken-for-granted truths about race in PE as integral to working towards the development of an antiracist subject. (As Provided).
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