On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices

Bibliographic Data

ID2385992
AuthorsMichael Silk (0000-0002-7549-0919, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK), Jessica Francombe-Webb (0000-0002-5058-2681, University of Bath), E Rich (0000-0003-1774-2898, University of Bath), Stephanie Merchant (0000-0002-8330-2789, University of Bath)
Year2015
Volume21
Issue9
Pages798-811
Publication date2015-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800415569787
OpenAlexW1984331194
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited58

Within this article, we critically reflect on the production and reproduction of knowledge(s) within the academic study of sport-a field dominated (to its detriment) by self-destructive versions of reductionist science that (subconsciously) act as insidious components of the social and economic condition that privileges "state" science and fail to do justice to the potentialities of "the physical" in overcoming social, political, and health inequalities. To counter such regressive orthodoxies, we focus on a corporeal/technoslow approach to the curriculum/pedagogy in an effort to initiate dialogue about a more progressive and democratic social science of sport, leisure, and physical cultures-a transgressive pedagogy that can encourage transformation and the political potentialities of "the physical

Cultural capital · Curriculum · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Habitus · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Subconscious · Transgressive · Law · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society