An Active Learning Approach to Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sport Journalism

Autor/in	Chawansky, Megan
Titel	An Active Learning Approach to Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sport Journalism
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 21 (2010) 1, S.75-77 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
Schlagwörter	Social Class; Behavioral Objectives; Active Learning; Journalism; Sociology; Homosexuality; Gender Discrimination; Gender Bias; Athletics; Females; Human Body; Periodicals; Web Sites; Television; Gender Differences; Ethnicity; Race; Course Descriptions; Disabilities; Team Sports; Athletes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Aktives Lernen; Journalistik; Journalismus; Soziologie; Homosexualität; Geschlechterstereotyp; Leichtathletik; Weibliches Geschlecht; Menschlicher Körper; Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Web-Design; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ethnizität; Rasse; Abstammung; Kursstrukturplan; Handicap; Behinderung; Mannschaftssport; Athlet
Abstract	Most of the students who are taking the author's sport sociology courses can easily identify the problematic ways in which women's athletic events and bodies are covered within the sports sections of newspapers, magazines, Web sites, and television shows. These students are less able to understand how the heterosexual male sporting experience becomes the model from which most journalistic tropes and storylines emerge. Therefore, the author devised an activity to help students consider gender, sexuality, and sport journalism in light of journalistic silences and omissions. The main learning objective of this activity is met when students understand how sexism and homophobia can pervade even the seemingly innocuous tropes and form of sport journalism. Additionally, since most of her students cite this activity as being especially fun and engaging, it is particularly important to the author to include it in her course planning. Furthermore, though she explores questions of gender and sexuality in this particular instance, the activity can certainly be modified to discuss representations or race, ethnicity, social class, and disability within the parameters of sport journalism. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10