Fitness Testing: The Pleasure and Pain of It

Autor/inn/en	Garrett, Robyne; Wrench, Alison
Titel	Fitness Testing: The Pleasure and Pain of It
Quelle	In: ACHPER Australia Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 55 (2008) 4, S.17-22 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1445-8918
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Physical Education; Majors (Students); Testing; Physical Fitness; Young Adults; Competition; Student Attitudes; Social Influences; Obesity + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Körpererziehung; Sportunterricht; Testdurchführung; Testen; Leistungsfähigkeit; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Wettkampf; Schülerverhalten; Sozialer Einfluss; Adipositas
Abstract	The obesity crisis is a discourse that has established common-sense understandings that all young people are less active and fit than previous generations. Unquestioning acceptance of the links between fitness and obesity in turn leads to unproblematic fitness testing of young people. This research investigated the personal and embodied experiences of fitness testing amongst university students who will in the future teach health and physical education. Foucault's ideas around technologies of self offer possibilities for understanding fitness tests as a means to discipline classify and regulate young bodies. The work is also informed by notions of "embodiment" to assist in understanding the way individuals experience their bodies in and through fitness testing. The data gathered and analysed contributes to a growing body of evidence that suggests that fitness testing is not a neutral practice and there is need for educators to problematise taken for granted assumptions and practices around fitness testing. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10