H Larsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 39850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Larsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsson |
| SIGNATURE | LARSSON H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0638-7176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Physical education teacher education matters – This is how!
Previous research has presented contrasting notions of the potential impact of physical education teacher education (PETE) on professional teaching practice. Despite growing scholarship on PETE, work is needed to better understand how PETE can matter to would-be physical education (PE) teachers and teaching in the subject. This article aims to provide insights into when and how PETE matters to further understand how programmes can prepare preserv…
Educational gymnastics as objectual practice
Background, purpose, and theoretical framework: According to Knorr-Cetina, the development of knowledge occurs in objectual practice within what she refers to as epistemic cultures. We assume this also applies to knowledge in movement. However, there is a lack of insight into the epistemic cultures of movement practices, which may be why physical education (PE) is sometimes reduced to recreational physical activity or ‘correct technique’ in prede…
How does physical education teacher education prepare preservice teachers to make practical judgements when teaching games? A case study
Background In the last 40 years, physical education (PE) scholars have developed an array of approaches for teaching games. This development is positive in that PE professionals now have a wealth of practically-oriented scholarship to help them teach games. Yet the widespread availability of prescriptions for teaching games potentially reduces both the need and opportunity for teachers to exercise their practical judgement when working with games…
Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices
Background Principles such as instructional alignment and step-by-step progression are often seen as crucial features of good assessment practices in school physical education (PE). These features are problematic from nonlinear educational perspectives, which are based on the idea that movement learning cannot be expected to take place in the same manner for all students. Without some resolution of the contradiction between nonlinear pedagogies a…
Negotiating adolescents' physically active life during the school day
The transition between educational stages brought changes that influenced students and staff's agency related to PA. Against this backdrop, the analytical findings were organized into four themes. Students' PA was negotiated against the logic associated with being a "good" middle school student and teacher. Realizing daily PA also stood in relation to an anything-is-possible spirit, which was pitted against the lack of an organizational structure…
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions
Scholars have expressed concern about stagnation in physical education research. Specifically, they have claimed that physical education researchers have been investigating the same topics, presenting the same solutions, and at times fail to build on - or in some cases, even acknowledge - existing scientific findings. These are serious assertions that call into question the enterprise of researching in physical education. In this paper, we evalua…
Matrices of (dis)advantage – school segregation and social inequities in adolescent physical activity from an intersectionality approach
Tackling inequities and inequalities related to adolescents’ engagement in physical activity and sport is highlighted in recent research. However, rarely addressed are the issues of intersecting hierarchal systems of power that interlocks on both micro and macro levels, affecting how physical activity patterns express social memberships across several contexts. Therefore, this study aimed to explore how adolescents’ physical activity during leisu…
‘They don’t have bad intentions.’ The disciplinary power of heteronormative communication in upper secondary Polish physical education – a case study
Background Previous studies have shown unequal treatment of female and male students during PE. However, few studies have focused on gendered communication between teachers and students. Particularly, students’ perceptions of communication have often remained unexplored. Understanding this process appears to be highly significant for ensuring gender equality in schools. In this study, we applied Foucault’s theory of normalization and Butler’s the…
Creative dance – practising and improving … what? A study in physical education teacher education
Creative dance, that is to say, movements, with or without music, which allow participants to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings, are sometimes accompanied by a ‘there is no right or wrong way to move’ rhetoric. This may reinforce the impression among physical education teacher education (PETE) students, who often have limited experience of (creative) dance, that there is nothing to practise in creative dance and that this activity is merely d…
Exploring the enacted content of the Practising Model
Various attempts have been made to emphasise the educational purpose of physical education (PE). Ennis (2011 ) has noted that understandings of content shift depending on curriculum. The aim of the paper is to explore what the enacted content becomes when the Practising Model is implemented in PE. Four PE teachers, in two Swedish secondary schools, enacted the Practising Model with five classes for 10–17 lessons. Qualitative data were generated i…
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise
This study explores how trans individuals struggle to make themselves intelligible as humans in a cis- and heteronormative context of sports and exercise. Ten trans people with present or prior experience in sports and exercise were interviewed. The analysis draws from Butler’s idea of trans people’s exclusion as a question of unintelligibility instead of oppression. The study demonstrates three overreaching ways trans people make themselves disc…
Gendered relations? Associations between Swedish parents, siblings, and adolescents' time spent sedentary and physically active
IntroductionThe family is assumed to be fundamental in youth socialization processes and development, connected to social and cultural practices such as healthy lifestyles and physical activity. However, gender patterns in physical activity among adolescents and the structural drivers of gender inequality (e.g., parentage and siblingship) are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to explore further how gender structures relate to adolescen…
Social stratification of physical activity. An exploration into how logics of practice affect participation in movement culture
Background Researchers have long studied the social stratification of physical activity patterns in terms of ‘determinants’ of physically active lifestyles. In this article, we set out to explore how Bourdieu’s concept logic of practice can be used as an intermediating analytical tool to promote understanding rather than the calculation of human participation in movement culture.Theoretical framework The logic of the practice is similar to the lo…
School-based physical activity interventions
School-based physical activity (PA) interventions stand out as a highly valued knowledge technology in relation to attempts to promote daily physical activity (DPA) among school youth. The purpose of the paper is to explore technologies of knowledge that guide school-based PA interventions in lower secondary schools and discuss their power-related implications. Foucault’s notion of discourse as the ensemble of regulated, deliberate, and finalised…
Arriving in the body – students’ experiences of yoga based practices (YBP) in physical education teacher education (Pete)
The interest in yoga, mindfulness or similar yoga-based practices (YBP) has grown exponentially in the western world, also within education, including physical education (PE). Although some studies have been conducted on YBP in PE, yoga has not yet been researched in the framework of physical education teacher education (PETE). Using a regional lifeworld approach, the purpose of this article is to investigate how PETE students experience their pa…
Attitudes Towards Physical Education Teachers From a Cross-Cultural Perspective
El papel del profesor en la generacin de actitudes favorables hacia la Educacin Fsica es esencial, porque su comportamiento influye directamente en la forma en que los estudiantes valoran la asignatura. El propsito de este estudio es analizar las actitudes hacia los profesores de Educacin Fsica desde la perspectiva de los adolescentes alemanes y chilenos. Participaron 2030 estudiantes (1001 chicas y 1029 chicos, M edad = 14.44 1,8). Se utiliz el …
‘There is no right or wrong way
Background: Research has indicated that an aesthetic perspective on movement is lacking in physical education and that exploratory teaching assignments are rare.Purpose: The aim of the paper is to explore how PE teachers approach the issue of teaching expressive dance and which learning processes students are involved in while dancing.Participants, research design and data collection: Sixty-eight students from three different secondary school cla…
Learning in the educational landscapes of juggling, unicycling, and dancing
Background Movement learning has been thoroughly investigated in the area of motor learning research. Although existing studies have contributed to a substantial understanding of motor learning, many have been criticized for their reliance on experimental designs where learning is decontextualized, simplified, and investigated in laboratory settings. Researchers have claimed that motor learning theories emanating from such studies are grounded on…
Introduction to the Pesp special issue
Several years ago, one of us spent time working with a physical education teacher and his 9th-grade class (pupils aged 15 years) on the west coast of Sweden. The teacher was trialling a new module
Between hope and happening
Background: Advocacy through the work of many scholars in physical education and sport pedagogy highlights a significant direction towards which physical education is moving in light of calls for change. Importantly, and despite the ‘newness’ of the terms, ‘pedagogical models’ and ‘Models-based Practice’ (MbP) are beginning to shape the vocabulary of physical education and sport pedagogy.Purpose: To ask what happens if we take some of the ‘good s…
Associations between the School Environment and Physical Activity Pattern during School Time in Swedish Adolescents
Knowledge about associations between school-based initiatives and physical activity patterns is limited. The purpose of this paper was to examine associations between factors in the school environment, physical activity and sedentary time during school time. The cross-sectional study included 1139 adolescents aged 13-14 from 34 schools. Physical activity and sedentary time were measured using hip-worn accelerometers. Factors in the school environ…
Genuine Movement Learning Through a Deleuzian Approach
The purpose of the article is to outline how Deleuzian concepts, notably the notions of apprenticeship in signs based on a pedagogy of the concept, can stimulate thinking and understanding of movement learning, and provide insights about pedagogical implications in various movement educational settings. Methodologically, the article falls somewhere in between theoretical exposition and presentation of original empirical research, i.e., a “theoret…
Choreographing gender
The aim of this study is to highlight gender norms in physical education (PE) dance lessons, in order to analyse how secondary school students, both girls and boys, negotiate these norms. To do this, we used Bourdieu’s concept of masculine domination and Butler’s theory of heteronormativity. Video material was collected from eight Swedish secondary schools. This material was analysed qualitatively with the help of masculine domination and heteron…
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling
Movement learning has become a prominent issue in recent sport pedagogy research, including a particular concern about the new perspectives of movement learning. The turn towards new perspectives is partly spurred by discontent with the conventional perspectives of movement learning. The purpose of the article is to explore a journey into the kinescape of unicycling. The article can be seen as a case study of what it means to learn (how) to unicy…
The discourse of gender equality in youth sports
Two key value issues in youth sports development intersect in this article: 1) gender equality, and 2) the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns about their own participation. The purpose is to explore ‘gender equality’ as a topic of deliberation in Swedish youth sport, and specifically young sports person’s possibilities for speaking out about gender equality issues. The article draws on material from an interview study with 17 leaders …
Heterotopias in physical education
This article sets out to outline how prevailing gender structures can be challenged in physical education (PE) by exploring queer potentials in an event that took place during a dancing lesson in an upper secondary PE class. The event and its features were documented through video recording and post-lesson interviews with the teacher and some of the students. It is argued that the event can be seen as aheterotopia, according to Michel Foucault a …
The game within the game
Since 1980 the Swedish compulsory school curriculum has stipulated that Physical Education (PE) should be taught co-ed and schools are legally required to promote gender equality. The latest evaluation of PE in Sweden shows that more boys than girls ranked the subject highly and that they had a higher level of activity during the PE lessons. Drawing on a case study, the aim of this article is to illuminate how games placed girls and boys in diffe…
What did they learn in school today? A method for exploring aspects of learning in physical education
This paper outlines a method for exploring learning in educational practice. The suggested method combines an explicit learning theory with robust methodological steps in order to explore aspects of learning in school physical education. The design of the study is based on sociocultural learning theory, and the approach adds to previous research within the field, both in terms of the combination of methods used and the claims made in our studies.…
The productive effect of power
Background: Pleasure is often a key feature of school physical education (PE) and, indeed, a lot of students find pleasure in and through PE while others do not. However, pleasure is rarely considered to be of educational value in the subject [Pringle, R. (2010). "Finding Pleasure in Physical Education: A Critical Examination of the Educative Value of Positive Movement Affects." Quest 62: 119-134]. Further, since pleasure is linked to power [Fouc…
Physical education cultures in Sweden
In a significant article from 1993, Crum describes the purpose of physical education (PE) as a ‘planned introduction into movement culture’. In broad terms, this purpose is tantamount to the stated purpose of Swedish PE in national steering documents. Crum contends, however, that physical educators do not prioritise learning, which is largely due to the different ‘movement cultures’ that constitute the PE lessons. This article explores how practi…
Symbolic capital in physical education and health
The way teachers’ in Sweden reason about assessment and grading in physical education and health is in focus in this article. The central question is to investigate what teachers’ believe are the goals of the subject, important knowledge in the subject and criteria for assessment in physical education (PE) health. With this study we take up a theme, particularly developed by Evans (2004 Evans, J. 2004. Making a difference? Education and ‘ability’…
Logics of practice in movement culture
In this article, we present a framework for exploring participation in and social stratification of movement culture based on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept logic of practice. The background to our approach is Lars-Magnus Engström’s struggle to understand the impact of social stratification on participation in movement culture in a now nearly fifty-year follow-up study. The aim of the article is to elaborate further a framework, which Engström drafted…
Same, same but different
Afin de comprendre et de discuter les différences de cultures entre les pays aussi bien dans l'école que dans les pratiques, il est important de prendre en compte le contexte de la situation didactique. Cet article s'ancre dans la tradition suédoise des recherches en didactique de l'éducation physique articulant le sens pratique de Bourdieu et l'idée de « ends-in-view » de Dewey afin d'analyser les points communs et les différences de cultures en…
Materialising bodies
Over the last one of two decades, researchers within the physical education (PE) and sport pedagogy research frequently use the concept ‘the material body’. An initial purpose of this article is to explore what a concept of a ‘material body’ might mean. What other bodies are there? Who would dispute the materiality of bodies? I suggest that the use of a concept as ‘the material body’ suggests a hesitation before the radicalism of the linguistic t…
Teaching dance in physical education using exergames
This article explores the different ways in which a dance exergame can be used to teach dance in upper secondary school physical education. Particular attention is paid to the learning processes that students are involved in when the dance game is used as a teaching resource. A socio-cultural perspective on learning constitutes the analytical framework. The study demonstrates three different uses: instructor, facilitator and inspirer. In relation…
School-based physical activity interventions
School-based physical activity (PA) interventions stand out as a highly valued knowledge technology in relation to attempts to promote daily physical activity (DPA) among school youth. The purpose of the paper is to explore technologies of knowledge that guide school-based PA interventions in lower secondary schools and discuss their power-related implications. Foucault’s notion of discourse as the ensemble of regulated, deliberate, and finalised…
Juggling with gender. How gender promotes and prevents the learning of a specific movement activity among secondary school students
Research on motor learning frequently reports gender differences. However, there seems to be limited tools in the research with which to make use of these insights in educationally relevant ways. Movement learning and gender are intensely researched in movement education research, but the issues rarely intersect in the literature. The purpose of this article is to shed light on how movement learning and gender norms intersect when students learn …
Moving beyond rigid orthodoxies in the teaching and assessment of movement in Swedish physical education teacher education
The purpose of this paper is to analyse and discuss physical education teacher education (PETE) students’ conceptions of teaching and assessment of movement capability as a part of content knowledge in aquatics, dance and ice-skating at a university in Sweden. The theoretical perspective involves Shulman’s concept of content knowledge, the further elaboration of content knowledge into common content knowledge, and the theoretical perspective unde…
Figuring More Livable Elsewheres
Inspired by calls for an emphasis on the 'potentiality of the present' in feminist and queer (sport) studies, this article explores queering acts, moments, and spaces in stories of athletes living nonstraight. To do this, we use Haraway's and Braidotti's notion of figuration and creative analytical writing. With one foot rooted in what is, our three figurations of the queering athlete take us into and beyond heteronormativity to what can be(come)…
Sport physiology research and governing gender in sport—a power–knowledge relation
This article sets out to show how physiological knowledge about sex/gender relates to power issues within sport. The sport physiology research at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (Swedish acronym: GIH) during the twentieth century is analysed in relation to the political rationality concerning gender at GIH and within the Swedish Sports Confederation during the same period. The analysis is constituted by Michel Foucault's notion of…
Joy, fear and resignation
Emotional dimensions of physical education have garnered attention fromscholars in the last two decades. Many scholars claim that emotionssignificantly affect learning and that positive emotions such as joy andpleasure are necessary for continued participation in movementactivities beyond the classroom. Much of the existing literature,however, is based on the idea that emotions comprise internal mentalstates that are retrospectively oriented. In …
(Re)presenting equestrian his tories—storytelling as a method of inquiry
Responding to calls about the need to 'give voice' to groups previously marginalized in research and to challenge meta-narratives about men in sports this paper explores the use of a narrative approach to illuminate men's experiences—and the doing of gender—within equestrian sports, a sport dominated by women in Sweden. Adopting the position of a storyteller three literary short-stories were constructed from interviews with men active in equestri…
Making Magic Soup - The facilitation of play in school-age childcare
This paper explores socially shared knowledge of facilitating play in a learning institution such as a school-age childcare setting (services provided for children outside school hours, often while parents are at work). Previous research makes it clear that the area of play facilitation needs further exploration. It points to a tension between children's agency in play and the constraints of the setting. The pedagogical traditions of Froebel and …
Promoting girls' participation in sports
What does it mean to promote girls' participation in sports and which girls are seen as needing support? In this article we focus a government-financed sports venture and scrutinize the frames governing what is possible to say about girls and their participation in sports. By analyzing project applications from local sport clubs we investigate how the category of girls is discursively constructed in projects designed to promote girls' sports part…
Trans People Struggling To Be Human in Sports and Exercise
This study explores how trans individuals struggle to make themselves intelligible as humans in a cis- and heteronormative context of sports and exercise. Ten trans people with present or prior experience in sports and exercise were interviewed. The analysis draws from Butler’s idea of trans people’s exclusion as a question of unintelligibility instead of oppression. The study demonstrates three overreaching ways trans people make themselves disc…
Gendered relations? Associations between Swedish parents, siblings, and adolescents' time spent sedentary and physically active
IntroductionThe family is assumed to be fundamental in youth socialization processes and development, connected to social and cultural practices such as healthy lifestyles and physical activity. However, gender patterns in physical activity among adolescents and the structural drivers of gender inequality (e.g., parentage and siblingship) are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to explore further how gender structures relate to adolescen…
Exploring the meaning of movement capability in physical education teacher education through student voices
Scholars argue that movement content knowledge in physical education teacher education (PETE) needs to be revisited and problematised. In this paper we develop the concept of movement capability representing a widened view of movement content knowledge. If teacher educators want to teach movement capability as an intrinsic educational goal in PETE there is an apparent need to consider what to teach, how it is taught and also how movement capabili…
What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions
Scholars have expressed concern about stagnation in physical education research. Specifically, they have claimed that physical education researchers have been investigating the same topics, presenting the same solutions, and at times fail to build on - or in some cases, even acknowledge - existing scientific findings. These are serious assertions that call into question the enterprise of researching in physical education. In this paper, we evalua…
Journeying into the kinescape of unicycling
Movement learning has become a prominent issue in recent sport pedagogy research, including a particular concern about the new perspectives of movement learning. The turn towards new perspectives is partly spurred by discontent with the conventional perspectives of movement learning. The purpose of the article is to explore a journey into the kinescape of unicycling. The article can be seen as a case study of what it means to learn (how) to unicy…
The discourse of gender equality in youth sports
Two key value issues in youth sports development intersect in this article: 1) gender equality, and 2) the opportunity for youths to voice their concerns about their own participation. The purpose is to explore ‘gender equality’ as a topic of deliberation in Swedish youth sport, and specifically young sports person’s possibilities for speaking out about gender equality issues. The article draws on material from an interview study with 17 leaders …
Masculinities, Gender Relations and Sport
Håkan Larsson anmelder "Masculinities, Gender Relations and Sport" af Jim McKay, Michael A. Messner og Don Sabo (eds.)
Idrott och genus
Håkan Larsson: Sport and gender This article concerns bodily materialisation as it occurs in youth sport. It is based on interviews with teenagers 16 to 19 years of age doing track and field athletics. The purpose of the article is to elucidate how the notion of a “natural body“ can be seen as a cultural effect of sports practice and sports discourse. On the one hand, the body is materialised as a performing body, and on the other as a beautiful …
Idrottens genus. En forskningsgenomgång
Sporting practices, particularly competitive sport, are often linked to notions of masculinity. All the same, not all boys and men do sport. And in fact, a lot of girls and women are involved in sport but they all do sport under the influence of deeply ingrained notions about gender. The purpose of this article is to elucidate this relation between sport and gender. The purpose is, also, to show how research in the humanities and in the social sc…
Symbolic capital in physical education and health
The way teachers’ in Sweden reason about assessment and grading in physical education and health is in focus in this article. The central question is to investigate what teachers’ believe are the goals of the subject, important knowledge in the subject and criteria for assessment in physical education (PE) health. With this study we take up a theme, particularly developed by Evans (2004 Evans, J. 2004. Making a difference? Education and ‘ability’…
Promoting girls' participation in sports
What does it mean to promote girls' participation in sports and which girls are seen as needing support? In this article we focus a government-financed sports venture and scrutinize the frames governing what is possible to say about girls and their participation in sports. By analyzing project applications from local sport clubs we investigate how the category of girls is discursively constructed in projects designed to promote girls' sports part…
Sport physiology research and governing gender in sport—a power–knowledge relation
This article sets out to show how physiological knowledge about sex/gender relates to power issues within sport. The sport physiology research at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (Swedish acronym: GIH) during the twentieth century is analysed in relation to the political rationality concerning gender at GIH and within the Swedish Sports Confederation during the same period. The analysis is constituted by Michel Foucault's notion of…
The game within the game
Since 1980 the Swedish compulsory school curriculum has stipulated that Physical Education (PE) should be taught co-ed and schools are legally required to promote gender equality. The latest evaluation of PE in Sweden shows that more boys than girls ranked the subject highly and that they had a higher level of activity during the PE lessons. Drawing on a case study, the aim of this article is to illuminate how games placed girls and boys in diffe…
Materialising bodies
Over the last one of two decades, researchers within the physical education (PE) and sport pedagogy research frequently use the concept ‘the material body’. An initial purpose of this article is to explore what a concept of a ‘material body’ might mean. What other bodies are there? Who would dispute the materiality of bodies? I suggest that the use of a concept as ‘the material body’ suggests a hesitation before the radicalism of the linguistic t…
Making Magic Soup - The facilitation of play in school-age childcare
This paper explores socially shared knowledge of facilitating play in a learning institution such as a school-age childcare setting (services provided for children outside school hours, often while parents are at work). Previous research makes it clear that the area of play facilitation needs further exploration. It points to a tension between children's agency in play and the constraints of the setting. The pedagogical traditions of Froebel and …
What did they learn in school today? A method for exploring aspects of learning in physical education
This paper outlines a method for exploring learning in educational practice. The suggested method combines an explicit learning theory with robust methodological steps in order to explore aspects of learning in school physical education. The design of the study is based on sociocultural learning theory, and the approach adds to previous research within the field, both in terms of the combination of methods used and the claims made in our studies.…
Heterotopias in physical education
This article sets out to outline how prevailing gender structures can be challenged in physical education (PE) by exploring queer potentials in an event that took place during a dancing lesson in an upper secondary PE class. The event and its features were documented through video recording and post-lesson interviews with the teacher and some of the students. It is argued that the event can be seen as aheterotopia, according to Michel Foucault a …
Learning movement cultures in physical education practice
Introduction The focus of this special issue is how learning occurs in physical education (PE) practice in relation to different movement cultures in various contexts. The basis for the special issue is the Invited Symposium held at the AIESEP World Congress 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand, entitled Physical education – a subject for learning? The symposium revolved around learning in PE and the presenters, in line with a Swedish Didactics of Physi…
(Re)presenting equestrian his tories—storytelling as a method of inquiry
Responding to calls about the need to 'give voice' to groups previously marginalized in research and to challenge meta-narratives about men in sports this paper explores the use of a narrative approach to illuminate men's experiences—and the doing of gender—within equestrian sports, a sport dominated by women in Sweden. Adopting the position of a storyteller three literary short-stories were constructed from interviews with men active in equestri…
Physical education cultures in Sweden
In a significant article from 1993, Crum describes the purpose of physical education (PE) as a ‘planned introduction into movement culture’. In broad terms, this purpose is tantamount to the stated purpose of Swedish PE in national steering documents. Crum contends, however, that physical educators do not prioritise learning, which is largely due to the different ‘movement cultures’ that constitute the PE lessons. This article explores how practi…
Teaching dance in physical education using exergames
This article explores the different ways in which a dance exergame can be used to teach dance in upper secondary school physical education. Particular attention is paid to the learning processes that students are involved in when the dance game is used as a teaching resource. A socio-cultural perspective on learning constitutes the analytical framework. The study demonstrates three different uses: instructor, facilitator and inspirer. In relation…
Same, same but different
Afin de comprendre et de discuter les différences de cultures entre les pays aussi bien dans l'école que dans les pratiques, il est important de prendre en compte le contexte de la situation didactique. Cet article s'ancre dans la tradition suédoise des recherches en didactique de l'éducation physique articulant le sens pratique de Bourdieu et l'idée de « ends-in-view » de Dewey afin d'analyser les points communs et les différences de cultures en…
Logics of practice in movement culture
In this article, we present a framework for exploring participation in and social stratification of movement culture based on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept logic of practice. The background to our approach is Lars-Magnus Engström’s struggle to understand the impact of social stratification on participation in movement culture in a now nearly fifty-year follow-up study. The aim of the article is to elaborate further a framework, which Engström drafted…
Undervisning i idrott och hälsa
The productive effect of power
Background: Pleasure is often a key feature of school physical education (PE) and, indeed, a lot of students find pleasure in and through PE while others do not. However, pleasure is rarely considered to be of educational value in the subject [Pringle, R. (2010). "Finding Pleasure in Physical Education: A Critical Examination of the Educative Value of Positive Movement Affects." Quest 62: 119-134]. Further, since pleasure is linked to power [Fouc…
This might be him; the guy I'm gonna marry
Infatuation, love and sexual relationships exist virtually anywhere. Coach-athlete sexual relationships (CASR), however, are overlooked and under-researched. Within sport sociology, CASR have been framed predominantly by a sexual abuse discourse. Informed by Foucault's discourse analysis, this study explores how discourses regarding performance enhancement in elite-sport and coaching, and romantic love, frame female elite-athletes' experiences wi…
Figuring More Livable Elsewheres
Inspired by calls for an emphasis on the 'potentiality of the present' in feminist and queer (sport) studies, this article explores queering acts, moments, and spaces in stories of athletes living nonstraight. To do this, we use Haraway's and Braidotti's notion of figuration and creative analytical writing. With one foot rooted in what is, our three figurations of the queering athlete take us into and beyond heteronormativity to what can be(come)…
Physical education—educating bodies after postmodernism
The article offers the author's perspective about what comes after postmodernism and how it affects educational philosophy and theory, focusing on physical education (PE) in schools. The author argues that the adoption of the idea of performative pedagogies as a way to elicit social change also indicates adoption of movement. Education insights about bodies and embodiment from the case of Indian sprinter Dutee Chand are noted
Joy, fear and resignation
Emotional dimensions of physical education have garnered attention fromscholars in the last two decades. Many scholars claim that emotionssignificantly affect learning and that positive emotions such as joy andpleasure are necessary for continued participation in movementactivities beyond the classroom. Much of the existing literature,however, is based on the idea that emotions comprise internal mentalstates that are retrospectively oriented. In …
Exploring the meaning of movement capability in physical education teacher education through student voices
Scholars argue that movement content knowledge in physical education teacher education (PETE) needs to be revisited and problematised. In this paper we develop the concept of movement capability representing a widened view of movement content knowledge. If teacher educators want to teach movement capability as an intrinsic educational goal in PETE there is an apparent need to consider what to teach, how it is taught and also how movement capabili…
Moving beyond rigid orthodoxies in the teaching and assessment of movement in Swedish physical education teacher education
The purpose of this paper is to analyse and discuss physical education teacher education (PETE) students’ conceptions of teaching and assessment of movement capability as a part of content knowledge in aquatics, dance and ice-skating at a university in Sweden. The theoretical perspective involves Shulman’s concept of content knowledge, the further elaboration of content knowledge into common content knowledge, and the theoretical perspective unde…
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