Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education

ISBN-13: 9781032177120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

David Kirk

Opis

This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators’ unpreparedness to provide inclusive, fair and equitable forms of physical education that might empower young people to overcome the mal effects of precarity.

Recenzje

"This important, timely contribution to the professional literature on the theory and practice of physical education is recommended to scholars of physical education, health education, and sport pedagogy and also to teacher educators and professionals who work directly with youth experiencing precarity … Summing Up: Highly recommended." - J Armstrong, University of New Mexico, CHOICE

Spis treści

1. Introduction,  2. Social turbulence, precarity, education,  3. Precarity, young people, and health and wellbeing,  4. The occupational socialization of physical education teachers, stress and burnout, and precarity,  5. Physical education-as-health promotion in precarity,  6. Advocacy, critique and educational action: critical pedagogies of physical education as a response to precarity,  7. Critical pedagogies of physical education teacher education and school physical education,  8. Critical pedagogies of affect for physical education: a response to precarity,  9. A note on teacher professional learning for precarity

O autorze

David Kirk is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde, UK and Honorary Professor of Human Movement at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is also Editor of the journal, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.