Figuring out the Prevalence of Fitness Testing in Physical Education: A Figurational Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Alfrey, Laura; Gard, Michael
Titel	Figuring out the Prevalence of Fitness Testing in Physical Education: A Figurational Analysis
Quelle	In: European Physical Education Review, 25 (2019) 1, S.187-202 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-336X
DOI	10.1177/1356336X17715361
Schlagwörter	Incidence; Physical Fitness; Physical Education Teachers; Tests; Testing; Teaching Methods; Educational History; Sociology; Human Body; Social Theories; Scientific Research; Self Control; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorkommen; Leistungsfähigkeit; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Testdurchführung; Testen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Soziologie; Menschlicher Körper; Gesellschaftstheorie; Selbstbeherrschung
Abstract	This paper explores the ways in which figurational sociology can offer a useful lens through which to understand the ongoing use of fitness testing as a means to physically educate young people. We contribute to a theoretical discussion around how physical education teachers have come to think about and enact fitness testing so pervasively. Applying a figurational lens: (a) encourages us to view fitness testing as a historically rooted practice; (b) sensitises us to the importance of social interdependencies and habitus when trying to understand their prevalence; (c) helps us to go beyond the labelling of fitness testing as 'disciplinary' and encourages us to identify the (un)intended consequences of fitness testing, and how these are enabling and constraining and for whom. Using a figurational lens we identify scientisation and shaming as two social processes that can help us understand why physical educators use fitness testing as a context for learning despite a lack of evidence to suggest its worth. The theorising articulated in this paper, together with the sociological work it follows, can help us move forward in terms of pedagogical possibilities for physical education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01