The Politics of Pleasure: An Ethnographic Examination Exploring the Dominance of the Multi-Activity Sport-Based Physical Education Model

Autor/inn/en	Gerdin, Göran; Pringle, Richard
Titel	The Politics of Pleasure: An Ethnographic Examination Exploring the Dominance of the Multi-Activity Sport-Based Physical Education Model
Quelle	In: Sport, Education and Society, 22 (2017) 2, S.194-213 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1357-3322
DOI	10.1080/13573322.2015.1019448
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Physical Education; Athletics; Resistance to Change; Males; Single Sex Schools; Foreign Countries; Physical Activities; Team Sports; Health Related Fitness; Masculinity; Secondary School Students; Physical Education Teachers; Observation; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Leichtathletik; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Ausland; Mannschaftssport; Gesundheitssport; Gesundheitstraining; Männlichkeit; Sekundarschüler; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Beobachtung; Neuseeland
Abstract	Kirk warns that physical education (PE) exists in a precarious situation as the dominance of the multi-activity sport-techniques model, and its associated problems, threatens the long-term educational survival of PE. Yet he also notes that although the model is problematic it is highly resistant to change. In this paper, we draw on the results of a year-long visual ethnography at an all-boys secondary school in Aotearoa New Zealand to examine the workings of power that legitimate this model of PE. Our findings illustrate that the school conflates PE and sport, to position PE as an appropriate masculine endeavour and valued source of enjoyment, as it articulates with good health, social development and competitiveness. We argue that student experiences of pleasure within PE--as co-constitutive with discourses of fitness, health, sport and masculinity--(re)produce the multi-activity sport-based form of PE as educationally appropriate and socioculturally relevant, thus making the model somewhat resistant to change. We stress that our study should not be read as a vindication of this PE model. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01