Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education: How to Make a Difference

ISBN-13: 9781138571679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 270 str.

Richard Pringle; Hakan Larsson; Goran Gerdin

Opis

This book considers how positive social change can be brought about through sport, focusing on understanding the impact of critical research on issues of social justice. It examines how the use of different social theories impacts sport policies, national curricula, health promotion activities, HPE teaching, and sport training and competition.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Are we making a difference?,  Part I: Critical socio-cultural examinations of sport,  2. Exploring the place of critical research in Sport for Development and Peace,  3. Football 4 Peace v Homophobia: A critical exploration of the links between theory, practice and intervention,  4. Autoethnography and public sociology of sport in Caribbean: Engagement, disengagement and despair,  5. Critical research on Black sporting experiences in the United States: Athletic activism and the appeal for social justice,  6. Problematizing practice: Coach development with Foucault,  Part II: Critical perspectives and social change within school physical education,  7. Critical pedagogy in physical education as advocacy and action: A reflective account,  8. A new critical pedagogy for physical education in ‘turbulent times’: What are the possibilities?,  9. In pursuit of a critically oriented Physical Education: Curriculum contests and troublesome knowledge,  10.  Socially critical PE: The influence of critical research on the social justice agenda in PETE and PE practice,  11. Critical scholarship in physical education teacher education: A journey, not a destination,  12. Gender in Physical Education: A case for performative pedagogy?,  Part III: Critical health examinations in education and other socio-cultural contexts,  13. Schools and health: An argument against the tide,  14. Is asking salutogenic questions a way of being critical?,  15. Cruel optimism? Socially critical perspectives on the obesity assemblage,  16. Critical research in exercise and fitness,  17. Un-charting the course: Critical indigenous research into Sport, Health and Physical Education,  18. “What do we want? When do we want it? Now!”: Some concluding observations