Trapped in the Physical: Maori and Pasifika Achievement in HPE

Autor/in	Fitzpatrick, Katie
Titel	Trapped in the Physical: Maori and Pasifika Achievement in HPE
Quelle	In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2 (2011) 3-4, S.35-51 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1837-7122
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; High School Students; Physical Education; Ethnicity; Social Class; Low Achievement; Minority Group Students; Health Education; Standards; Educational Environment; Academic Achievement; Educational Testing; Pacific Islanders; Ethnic Groups; Credentials; Student Certification; Migrant Children; Course Selection (Students); Status; Australia; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Ethnizität; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Standard; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schulleistung; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Ethnie; Studienbuch; Schulzeugnis; Course selection; Kurswahl; Australien; Neuseeland
Abstract	Health and physical education (PE) are low status, marginalised subjects in many schools internationally. However in New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere, they are concurrently credentialed and recognised senior high school options in which students can gain national qualifications. In New Zealand these subjects also tend to attract students who are statistically low achievers in the educational system. For example, health and PE are chosen in senior high school by disproportionate numbers of Maori (indigenous) and migrant Pasifika youth. Results suggest that these same youth achieve more in these disciplines than in other subjects. Considering why large numbers of Maori and Pasifika students choose health and PE is, of course, important. More prescient perhaps is consideration of how their engagement with health and PE intersects with their general positioning in education in relation to social class, ethnicity, physicality and other social hierarchies. Of interest is whether achievement in health and PE reinforces or contests the underachievement of Maori and Pasifika students? In this article, I discuss the implications for marginalised youth in taking health and PE as senior high school options. I draw on Bourdieu's notion of capital to explore the intersection of ethnicity, health and PE with national qualifications. (Contains 2 notes and 1 table.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. 214 Port Road, P.O. Box 304, Hindmarsh, SA 5007, Australia. Tel: +61-8-8340-3388; Fax: +61-8-8340-3399; e-mail: membership@achper.org.au; Web site: http://www.achper.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10