Richard Tinning
Biographic Data
| ID | 245730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Tinning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Tinning |
| SIGNATURE | TINNING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4657-7174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A new materialist ontology to the study of obesity assemblages and indebted bodywork in Physical Education
Moving online in physical education teacher education
In this paper, we consider the challenges for Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) that were presented during the COVID-19 pandemic in regard to preservice teachers’ knowledge in and about movement and their developing movement capability. Historically, learning about movement as well as learning in movement has always been central for physical education and PETE. The question this paper addresses is how the teaching and learning of moveme…
Kicking at the habitus
This paper reports the findings of a research project that sought to understand how a group of 19 graduating physical education teacher education (PETE) students’ biographies served to mediate their understanding of the messages of their PETE programme, which was underpinned by a critical pedagogy philosophy. We use the Bourdieuian concepts of habitus, field, pedagogical action and pedagogical work to represent the similarities and variation in t…
Troubled thoughts on critical pedagogy for Pete
Recently, a colleague in the PETE field claimed that I was part of a ‘backlash against’ and ‘flight from’ critical pedagogy. Moreover, he claimed that I had recanted the enthusiasm for critical pedagogy that I advocated in the 1980s and 1990s. Although he later admitted that he had ‘misread’ my work and that I was not part of a backlash I have been left wondering if, indeed, I have recanted some of my early enthusiasm for critical pedagogy. That …
Entering the field
Little is known about beginning teachers’ political positioning experiences of the staffroom. This paper employs Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital to explore beginning health and physical education teachers’ positioning experiences and learning in staffrooms, the place in which teachers spend the majority of their non-teaching school time. From an Australian context, we present beginning (or emerging) teachers’ stories fro…
Productive pedagogies and teachers’ professional learning in physical education
This paper examines a professional development and learning intervention that sought to improve teachers’ understandings of, and capacities to teach, critical evaluation in senior school physical education (SSPE). Physical education (PE) teachers and researchers formed a professional learning community (PLC) to deliver critical evaluation workshops for students and teachers of SSPE over the course of a year. The PLC used action research and engag…
Commentary on research into learning in physical education
In this commentary, I consider each of the papers in this special issue in regard to their contribution to a debate on the nature of learning in physical education (PE). I also discuss how we might take this aspiration further by moving beyond a ‘mere’ debate over learning theories to a knowledge building process in which knowledge claims are ‘tested’ against their compatibility (or non-compatibility) with other ‘knowings’. In this regard, I intr…
Coming to know about the body in Human Movement Studies programmes
This paper explores how a group of undergraduate Human Movement Studies (HMS) students learnt to know about the body during their four-year academic programme at an Australian university. When students begin an undergraduate programme in HMS they bring with them particular constructions, ideas and beliefs about their own bodies and about the body in general. Those ideas and beliefs are often challenged, disrupted or reinforced according to discou…
Health education’s fascist tendencies
Along with other scholars in the field, we are increasingly concerned with the propensity for schools to promote particular messages about health, especially those that encourage body surveillance and control. Indeed, we suggest in this article that certain forms of health education can be seen as a form of health fascism. We begin with a discussion of what we mean by health fascism before considering the historical positioning of health educatio…
I don't read fiction’
The relationship between health (H) and physical education (PE) has long been the subject of debate. Recently, however, the obesity crisis has raised this relationship to a new level of attention. At the risk of simplifying things, there are two ‘positions’ that seem to characterize the discourse regarding this new relationship. One position considers that the main mission of PE should now be the ‘war on obesity’. Advocates for this instrumental …
Major practicum as a learning site for exercise science professionals
Exercise science is now an integral part of the allied health framework in Australia and graduates from accredited programmes are equipped with skills recognised as being important in the prevention and management of lifestyle-related diseases. This pilot study sought to determine the experiences of 11 final-year exercise science students in their major practicum and identify skills learned and developed while on placement. Analysis of the interv…
Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University
Cultural studies provides an analytical toolbox for both making sense of educational practice and extending the insights of educational professionals into their labors. In this context Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education provides a collection of books in the domain that specify this assertion. Crafted for an audience of teachers, teacher educators, scholars and students of cultural studies and others interested in cultural studies and …
Understanding the pedagogic discourse of assessment in Physical Education
In recent years, various scholars have expounded on the notable pedagogic work that assessment plays in educational contexts, describing its capacity to convey powerful messages on the valued aspect of education knowledge, impacting upon how and what students learn in these contexts. However, not many studies have sought to gain an insight into what and how discourses are reproduced or produced in the classroom through assessment, or the pedagogi…
Not just ‘a book on the wall’
Historians often evaluate sport exhibitions as simply transplantations from the pages of books to the walls of a museum. Not surprisingly, on this basis many sport exhibitions fall short of the criteria demanded by historians. This paper specifically explores this issue by examining the exhibition, Between the Flags, that traveled around Australia as part of the centenary celebrations of Surf Lifesaving Australia. Pedagogy, and more specifically …
Workplace learning of high performance sports coaches
The Australian coaching workplace (to be referred to as the State Institute of Sport; SIS) under consideration in this study employs significant numbers of full-time performance sport coaches and can be accurately characterized as a genuine workplace. Through a consideration of the interaction between what the workplace (SIS) affords the individual and the agency of the individual SIS coaches, it is possible to gain an understanding how high perf…
HPE and the moral governance of p/leisurable bodies
Contemporary notions of good citizenship and proper living have become intimately related to the pursuit of good health. Consequently, modern states have devised programmes of education and training that endeavour to provide apprentice citizens with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to enhance their own and others health and wellbeing. These strategies, deployed through institutions such as schools, contribute to the moral regulation o…
Social processes of health and physical education teachers’ identity formation
This paper examines Initial Teacher Education students’ experiences of participation in health and physical education (HPE) subject department offices and the impact on their understandings and identity formation. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and practice along with Wenger’s communities of practice form the theoretical frame used in the paper. Data were collected using surveys and interviews with student‐teachers following their …
Foucault in Leotards
Women's artistic gymnastics is an Olympic sport that involves intricate acrobatic and rhythmic activities. This kinesthetic proficiency demands muscular strength and courage, which have been argued to serve its athletes as a source of empowerment. Various scholars question the positive effects of sport participation. This article builds on these doubts through a feminist Foucauldian study of WAG. An essayistic research story, compiled from data g…
Reflection as situated practice
The social tasks of learning to become a physical education teacher
Initial teacher education (ITE) students participate in various workplaces within schools and in doing so, form understandings about the numerous, and at times competing, expectations of teachers’ work. Through these experiences they form understandings about themselves as health and physical education (HPE) teachers. This paper examines the ways communities of practice within HPE subject department offices function as sites of workplace learning…
Becoming a health and physical education (HPE) teacher
Pedagogical Work and the 'Cult of the Body
Physical education, now often explicitly identified with health in contemporary school curricula, continues to be implicated in the (re)production of the 'cult of the body'. We argue that HPE is a form of health promotion that attempts to 'make' healthy citizens of young people in the context of the 'risk society'. In our view there is still work to be done in understanding how and why physical education (as HPE) continues to be implicated in the…
Toward a “Modest Pedagogy”
The practical implementation of and assumptions underpinning critical pedagogy have taken something of a battering over the last decade of the 20th century. In the field of physical education, the article by O'Sullivan, Siedentop, and Locke (1992) delivered a challenge that deserved to be answered. In education more generally, major voices of critical pedagogy such as Giroux and McLaren have been roundly criticized by feminist scholars such as Go…
Physical Education and Back Health
This article argues that physical education has a role to play in facilitating back health. Although back (ill) health is an issue of major concernfor Australia current HPE curriculum documents give almost no attention to the issue. A review of the early physical education curriculum in Australiareveals that posture (as a back health discourse) was an important focus. However, by the mid-1980s, it was largely forgotten as the discourses of heart …
Educational Truth Telling in a More Reflexive Modernity
Postmodemist and poststructuralist discourses have, in the process of problematising what intellectual work looks like, opened up new spaces in which an examination of the processes of intellectual knowledge production can be located. Our intent in this article is to explore the problems and possibilities which emerge for particular forms of educational truth-telling under these conditions. While we examine these processes at a general level, our…
Toward a “Modest Pedagogy”
The practical implementation of and assumptions underpinning critical pedagogy have taken something of a battering over the last decade of the 20th century. In the field of physical education, the article by O'Sullivan, Siedentop, and Locke (1992) delivered a challenge that deserved to be answered. In education more generally, major voices of critical pedagogy such as Giroux and McLaren have been roundly criticized by feminist scholars such as Go…
Foucault in Leotards
Women's artistic gymnastics is an Olympic sport that involves intricate acrobatic and rhythmic activities. This kinesthetic proficiency demands muscular strength and courage, which have been argued to serve its athletes as a source of empowerment. Various scholars question the positive effects of sport participation. This article builds on these doubts through a feminist Foucauldian study of WAG. An essayistic research story, compiled from data g…
Embodied self-identity, healthy lifestyles and school physical education
This paper draws on a study of female and male adolescents' social constructions of the body and self-identity in and around physical education lessons. The concepts of the social construction of the body and embodied self-identity are discussed and related to popular physical culture in Australia. Data from a two year study in Australian secondary schools is then used to illustrate the ways in which popular physical culture is appropriated, reco…
Pedagogical Work and the 'Cult of the Body
Physical education, now often explicitly identified with health in contemporary school curricula, continues to be implicated in the (re)production of the 'cult of the body'. We argue that HPE is a form of health promotion that attempts to 'make' healthy citizens of young people in the context of the 'risk society'. In our view there is still work to be done in understanding how and why physical education (as HPE) continues to be implicated in the…
Reflection as situated practice
HPE and the moral governance of p/leisurable bodies
Contemporary notions of good citizenship and proper living have become intimately related to the pursuit of good health. Consequently, modern states have devised programmes of education and training that endeavour to provide apprentice citizens with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to enhance their own and others health and wellbeing. These strategies, deployed through institutions such as schools, contribute to the moral regulation o…
Kicking at the habitus
This paper reports the findings of a research project that sought to understand how a group of 19 graduating physical education teacher education (PETE) students’ biographies served to mediate their understanding of the messages of their PETE programme, which was underpinned by a critical pedagogy philosophy. We use the Bourdieuian concepts of habitus, field, pedagogical action and pedagogical work to represent the similarities and variation in t…
The social tasks of learning to become a physical education teacher
Initial teacher education (ITE) students participate in various workplaces within schools and in doing so, form understandings about the numerous, and at times competing, expectations of teachers’ work. Through these experiences they form understandings about themselves as health and physical education (HPE) teachers. This paper examines the ways communities of practice within HPE subject department offices function as sites of workplace learning…
Becoming a health and physical education (HPE) teacher
Coming to know about the body in Human Movement Studies programmes
This paper explores how a group of undergraduate Human Movement Studies (HMS) students learnt to know about the body during their four-year academic programme at an Australian university. When students begin an undergraduate programme in HMS they bring with them particular constructions, ideas and beliefs about their own bodies and about the body in general. Those ideas and beliefs are often challenged, disrupted or reinforced according to discou…
I don't read fiction’
The relationship between health (H) and physical education (PE) has long been the subject of debate. Recently, however, the obesity crisis has raised this relationship to a new level of attention. At the risk of simplifying things, there are two ‘positions’ that seem to characterize the discourse regarding this new relationship. One position considers that the main mission of PE should now be the ‘war on obesity’. Advocates for this instrumental …
Troubled thoughts on critical pedagogy for Pete
Recently, a colleague in the PETE field claimed that I was part of a ‘backlash against’ and ‘flight from’ critical pedagogy. Moreover, he claimed that I had recanted the enthusiasm for critical pedagogy that I advocated in the 1980s and 1990s. Although he later admitted that he had ‘misread’ my work and that I was not part of a backlash I have been left wondering if, indeed, I have recanted some of my early enthusiasm for critical pedagogy. That …
Commentary on research into learning in physical education
In this commentary, I consider each of the papers in this special issue in regard to their contribution to a debate on the nature of learning in physical education (PE). I also discuss how we might take this aspiration further by moving beyond a ‘mere’ debate over learning theories to a knowledge building process in which knowledge claims are ‘tested’ against their compatibility (or non-compatibility) with other ‘knowings’. In this regard, I intr…
Not just ‘a book on the wall’
Historians often evaluate sport exhibitions as simply transplantations from the pages of books to the walls of a museum. Not surprisingly, on this basis many sport exhibitions fall short of the criteria demanded by historians. This paper specifically explores this issue by examining the exhibition, Between the Flags, that traveled around Australia as part of the centenary celebrations of Surf Lifesaving Australia. Pedagogy, and more specifically …
Social processes of health and physical education teachers’ identity formation
This paper examines Initial Teacher Education students’ experiences of participation in health and physical education (HPE) subject department offices and the impact on their understandings and identity formation. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and practice along with Wenger’s communities of practice form the theoretical frame used in the paper. Data were collected using surveys and interviews with student‐teachers following their …
Physical Education and Back Health
This article argues that physical education has a role to play in facilitating back health. Although back (ill) health is an issue of major concernfor Australia current HPE curriculum documents give almost no attention to the issue. A review of the early physical education curriculum in Australiareveals that posture (as a back health discourse) was an important focus. However, by the mid-1980s, it was largely forgotten as the discourses of heart …
Moving online in physical education teacher education
In this paper, we consider the challenges for Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) that were presented during the COVID-19 pandemic in regard to preservice teachers’ knowledge in and about movement and their developing movement capability. Historically, learning about movement as well as learning in movement has always been central for physical education and PETE. The question this paper addresses is how the teaching and learning of moveme…
Major practicum as a learning site for exercise science professionals
Exercise science is now an integral part of the allied health framework in Australia and graduates from accredited programmes are equipped with skills recognised as being important in the prevention and management of lifestyle-related diseases. This pilot study sought to determine the experiences of 11 final-year exercise science students in their major practicum and identify skills learned and developed while on placement. Analysis of the interv…
Workplace learning of high performance sports coaches
The Australian coaching workplace (to be referred to as the State Institute of Sport; SIS) under consideration in this study employs significant numbers of full-time performance sport coaches and can be accurately characterized as a genuine workplace. Through a consideration of the interaction between what the workplace (SIS) affords the individual and the agency of the individual SIS coaches, it is possible to gain an understanding how high perf…
Embodied self-identity, healthy lifestyles and school physical education
This paper draws on a study of female and male adolescents' social constructions of the body and self-identity in and around physical education lessons. The concepts of the social construction of the body and embodied self-identity are discussed and related to popular physical culture in Australia. Data from a two year study in Australian secondary schools is then used to illustrate the ways in which popular physical culture is appropriated, reco…
Educational Truth Telling in a More Reflexive Modernity
Postmodemist and poststructuralist discourses have, in the process of problematising what intellectual work looks like, opened up new spaces in which an examination of the processes of intellectual knowledge production can be located. Our intent in this article is to explore the problems and possibilities which emerge for particular forms of educational truth-telling under these conditions. While we examine these processes at a general level, our…
Physical Education and Back Health
This article argues that physical education has a role to play in facilitating back health. Although back (ill) health is an issue of major concernfor Australia current HPE curriculum documents give almost no attention to the issue. A review of the early physical education curriculum in Australiareveals that posture (as a back health discourse) was an important focus. However, by the mid-1980s, it was largely forgotten as the discourses of heart …
Pedagogical Work and the 'Cult of the Body
Physical education, now often explicitly identified with health in contemporary school curricula, continues to be implicated in the (re)production of the 'cult of the body'. We argue that HPE is a form of health promotion that attempts to 'make' healthy citizens of young people in the context of the 'risk society'. In our view there is still work to be done in understanding how and why physical education (as HPE) continues to be implicated in the…
Toward a “Modest Pedagogy”
The practical implementation of and assumptions underpinning critical pedagogy have taken something of a battering over the last decade of the 20th century. In the field of physical education, the article by O'Sullivan, Siedentop, and Locke (1992) delivered a challenge that deserved to be answered. In education more generally, major voices of critical pedagogy such as Giroux and McLaren have been roundly criticized by feminist scholars such as Go…
The social tasks of learning to become a physical education teacher
Initial teacher education (ITE) students participate in various workplaces within schools and in doing so, form understandings about the numerous, and at times competing, expectations of teachers’ work. Through these experiences they form understandings about themselves as health and physical education (HPE) teachers. This paper examines the ways communities of practice within HPE subject department offices function as sites of workplace learning…
Becoming a health and physical education (HPE) teacher
Reflection as situated practice
Workplace learning of high performance sports coaches
The Australian coaching workplace (to be referred to as the State Institute of Sport; SIS) under consideration in this study employs significant numbers of full-time performance sport coaches and can be accurately characterized as a genuine workplace. Through a consideration of the interaction between what the workplace (SIS) affords the individual and the agency of the individual SIS coaches, it is possible to gain an understanding how high perf…
HPE and the moral governance of p/leisurable bodies
Contemporary notions of good citizenship and proper living have become intimately related to the pursuit of good health. Consequently, modern states have devised programmes of education and training that endeavour to provide apprentice citizens with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to enhance their own and others health and wellbeing. These strategies, deployed through institutions such as schools, contribute to the moral regulation o…
Social processes of health and physical education teachers’ identity formation
This paper examines Initial Teacher Education students’ experiences of participation in health and physical education (HPE) subject department offices and the impact on their understandings and identity formation. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and practice along with Wenger’s communities of practice form the theoretical frame used in the paper. Data were collected using surveys and interviews with student‐teachers following their …
Foucault in Leotards
Women's artistic gymnastics is an Olympic sport that involves intricate acrobatic and rhythmic activities. This kinesthetic proficiency demands muscular strength and courage, which have been argued to serve its athletes as a source of empowerment. Various scholars question the positive effects of sport participation. This article builds on these doubts through a feminist Foucauldian study of WAG. An essayistic research story, compiled from data g…
Education, Social Justice and the Legacy of Deakin University
Cultural studies provides an analytical toolbox for both making sense of educational practice and extending the insights of educational professionals into their labors. In this context Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education provides a collection of books in the domain that specify this assertion. Crafted for an audience of teachers, teacher educators, scholars and students of cultural studies and others interested in cultural studies and …
Understanding the pedagogic discourse of assessment in Physical Education
In recent years, various scholars have expounded on the notable pedagogic work that assessment plays in educational contexts, describing its capacity to convey powerful messages on the valued aspect of education knowledge, impacting upon how and what students learn in these contexts. However, not many studies have sought to gain an insight into what and how discourses are reproduced or produced in the classroom through assessment, or the pedagogi…
Not just ‘a book on the wall’
Historians often evaluate sport exhibitions as simply transplantations from the pages of books to the walls of a museum. Not surprisingly, on this basis many sport exhibitions fall short of the criteria demanded by historians. This paper specifically explores this issue by examining the exhibition, Between the Flags, that traveled around Australia as part of the centenary celebrations of Surf Lifesaving Australia. Pedagogy, and more specifically …
Major practicum as a learning site for exercise science professionals
Exercise science is now an integral part of the allied health framework in Australia and graduates from accredited programmes are equipped with skills recognised as being important in the prevention and management of lifestyle-related diseases. This pilot study sought to determine the experiences of 11 final-year exercise science students in their major practicum and identify skills learned and developed while on placement. Analysis of the interv…
Health education’s fascist tendencies
Along with other scholars in the field, we are increasingly concerned with the propensity for schools to promote particular messages about health, especially those that encourage body surveillance and control. Indeed, we suggest in this article that certain forms of health education can be seen as a form of health fascism. We begin with a discussion of what we mean by health fascism before considering the historical positioning of health educatio…
I don't read fiction’
The relationship between health (H) and physical education (PE) has long been the subject of debate. Recently, however, the obesity crisis has raised this relationship to a new level of attention. At the risk of simplifying things, there are two ‘positions’ that seem to characterize the discourse regarding this new relationship. One position considers that the main mission of PE should now be the ‘war on obesity’. Advocates for this instrumental …
Coming to know about the body in Human Movement Studies programmes
This paper explores how a group of undergraduate Human Movement Studies (HMS) students learnt to know about the body during their four-year academic programme at an Australian university. When students begin an undergraduate programme in HMS they bring with them particular constructions, ideas and beliefs about their own bodies and about the body in general. Those ideas and beliefs are often challenged, disrupted or reinforced according to discou…
Productive pedagogies and teachers’ professional learning in physical education
This paper examines a professional development and learning intervention that sought to improve teachers’ understandings of, and capacities to teach, critical evaluation in senior school physical education (SSPE). Physical education (PE) teachers and researchers formed a professional learning community (PLC) to deliver critical evaluation workshops for students and teachers of SSPE over the course of a year. The PLC used action research and engag…
Commentary on research into learning in physical education
In this commentary, I consider each of the papers in this special issue in regard to their contribution to a debate on the nature of learning in physical education (PE). I also discuss how we might take this aspiration further by moving beyond a ‘mere’ debate over learning theories to a knowledge building process in which knowledge claims are ‘tested’ against their compatibility (or non-compatibility) with other ‘knowings’. In this regard, I intr…
Entering the field
Little is known about beginning teachers’ political positioning experiences of the staffroom. This paper employs Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital to explore beginning health and physical education teachers’ positioning experiences and learning in staffrooms, the place in which teachers spend the majority of their non-teaching school time. From an Australian context, we present beginning (or emerging) teachers’ stories fro…
Troubled thoughts on critical pedagogy for Pete
Recently, a colleague in the PETE field claimed that I was part of a ‘backlash against’ and ‘flight from’ critical pedagogy. Moreover, he claimed that I had recanted the enthusiasm for critical pedagogy that I advocated in the 1980s and 1990s. Although he later admitted that he had ‘misread’ my work and that I was not part of a backlash I have been left wondering if, indeed, I have recanted some of my early enthusiasm for critical pedagogy. That …
Kicking at the habitus
This paper reports the findings of a research project that sought to understand how a group of 19 graduating physical education teacher education (PETE) students’ biographies served to mediate their understanding of the messages of their PETE programme, which was underpinned by a critical pedagogy philosophy. We use the Bourdieuian concepts of habitus, field, pedagogical action and pedagogical work to represent the similarities and variation in t…
Moving online in physical education teacher education
In this paper, we consider the challenges for Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) that were presented during the COVID-19 pandemic in regard to preservice teachers’ knowledge in and about movement and their developing movement capability. Historically, learning about movement as well as learning in movement has always been central for physical education and PETE. The question this paper addresses is how the teaching and learning of moveme…
Sociology (20 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (19 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Physical education (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Mathematics education (8 works)