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Michael Gard

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ID304863
NAMEMichael Gard
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMEGard
SIGNATUREGARD M
AFFILIATIONSSouthern Cross University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS177
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX8
  • Environmental attunement continued: People, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education This second collection for the special issue on environmental attunement delves further into the possibilities of reimagining health, sport and physical education in relation to people, place, land and broader policy debates and governance about sustainable development.The collection represents a modest effort over time to sustain a…

  • Environment, technology and animals: Looking backwards and the future of physical education

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    I believe. I don't believe. Memories as history. History creates the future. Stories create oneself. Two years ago, I was involved in a conference session on post-human theory, organised by Rosie Welch and Nicole Taylor. This session forced me to interrogate my views and explore new connections to post-human scholarship. My position is not to look for new perspectives from 'new' theory. I do not want to argue about the value of post-humanist theo…

  • Environmental attunement in health, sport and physical education

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    This Special Issue on environmental attunement introduces seven papers that engage with a range of different insights and practices of nature-culture and embodied connections to place across health, sport and physical education. We have organised the papers into three themes that explore possibilities for: (i) notions of the environment and ‘nature’ in research and practice; (ii) possibilities and challenges of translating environment, sustainabi…

  • Environmental attunement in the health and physical education canon: Emplaced connection to embodiment, community and ‘nature’

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 24

    There have been unresolved calls for educators to connect and translate environmental links within health and physical education given the enduring absence, yet overlapping citizen priorities of health. In this Introductory paper to the Special Issue of environmental attunement in the health and/or physical education canon, we question if and how notions of nature and the environment might paradigmatically belong more centrally to the discipline.…

  • Rolling call for Special Issue papers: Environmental attunement in health, sport and physical education

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021

    There have been unresolved calls for educators to connect and translate environmental links within health, sport and physical education, despite overlapping priorities with citizens health (Taylor

  • Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram

    Michael Gard, Carolyn Pluim•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    In posing the question in our title, we have set ourselves the task of trying to understand why so little scholarly scrutiny and questioning of Fitnessgram—a product designed to assist in the school-based physical fitness testing of young people—exists in the country of its origin and then consider the implications of this silence. We begin our interrogation by offering a broad definition of ‘critical scholarship’. We then briefly describe the co…

  • Figuring out the prevalence of fitness testing in physical education: A figurational analysis

    Open Access•Laura Alfrey, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    This paper explores the ways in which figurational sociology can offer a useful lens through which to understand the ongoing use of fitness testing as a means to physically educate young people. We contribute to a theoretical discussion around how physical education teachers have come to think about and enact fitness testing so pervasively. Applying a figurational lens: (a) encourages us to view fitness testing as a historically rooted practice; …

  • Computer says no: An analysis of three digital food education resources

    Michael Gard, Eimear Enright•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Health…•2016

    What kind of thing will food education become in digitised classrooms? Drawn from a broader research project concerned with the ‘e turn’ in school health and physical education, this paper analyses three examples of digital food education (DEF). This is done by considering the role of digital technology in changing – or not changing – earlier forms of food education. In each case, these processes are viewed as portals of connection through which …

  • Physical education’s grand convergence: Fitnessgram ®, big-data and the digital commerce of children’s health

    Carolyn Pluim, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Education•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Fitnessgram® is a digital platform designed to help physical education teachers measure, record, disseminate and analyse the results of school-based student fitness testing. Despite important questions about the ethics, educational value and costs of Fitnessgram®, it is now widely used in the United States and is spreading to other countries. In this empirically investigative study, we draw on academic studies and commentary, media stories, gover…

  • The normalization of sport for older people

    Michael Gard, Rylee A Dionigi et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Leisure Research•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 14

    Opportunities for older adults in Western countries, particularly women, to participate in physically demanding, competitive sports have increased since the 1960s. Now, coinciding with the neoliberal shift in social policy, older adults live at a time when physical activity is highly encouraged through ‘healthy or active ageing’ discourses in media, policy policies and the sport/exercise sciences. This study sought to understand how 63 Masters at…

  • The governmentality of childhood obesity: Coca-Cola, public health and primary schools

    Open Access•Darren Powell, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 28

    In this paper, we examine the emergence of what might seem an unexpected policy outcome – a large multinational corporation, frequently blamed for exacerbating childhood obesity, operating as an officially sanctioned driver of anti-obesity initiatives in primary schools across the globe. We draw on Foucault's notion of governmentality to examine the pedagogical work of two international programmes devised and funded by Coca-Cola. We demonstrate h…

  • A crack where the light gets in: A study of Health and Physical Education teachers' perspectives on fitness testing as a context for learning about health

    Laura Alfrey, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Health…•2014

    Despite extensive critique, the teaching of Health and Physical Education (HPE) continues to be characterised by individualised and performative ideologies which are reflected in part by a continued focus upon fitness testing. There has been little attempt, however, to explore Australian HPE teachers' thoughts and reasoning for its privileged inclusion in their programmes. This paper draws on findings from a broader two-phase, mixed-method resear…

  • Schools and critical public health: Towards dialogue, collaboration and action

    Open Access•Michael Gard, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2014

    For a field that generates so many research publications, school health is the focus of remarkably little critical scholarly analysis. This is a curious situation for many reasons, not least becaus

  • They know they're getting the best knowledge possible’: Locating the academic in changing knowledge economies

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    As the discussant of this special issue, I focus on two related ideas: choice and self-interest. First, I explore the idea of choice and its relevance within research that concerns itself with a heavily loaded concept like ‘social justice’. My proposal here is that future scholarship that explores the consequences of privatised health and physical education (HPE) might at least factor in choice as one from a list of competing priorities. For exam…

  • Looking beyond what's broken: Towards an appreciative research agenda for physical education and sport pedagogy

    Eimear Enright, Joanne Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    Despite the volume of research devoted to the many ills that beset the pedagogical field of physical education and sport, we begin by arguing that there has been insufficient attention given to the way scholars conceptualise change and imagine bringing it about. In particular, we point to a tendency within the field to prioritise problems—what’s broken—and suggest that this tendency harbours a self-fulfilling logic. Although somewhat oversold by …

  • Research Forum Introduction: Ehpe

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014

  • Ehpe: A history of the future

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 28•References: 7

    A grand convergence looms. It seems at least plausible that health and physical education may soon be lived by students in ways that are radically different from the past and sharply at odds with the imaginings of its founders and generations of academic aficionados. Perhaps in some respects, the differences will be superficial and less important than the continuities. Nonetheless, I draw connections between some recent futurist literature, devel…

  • Healthy, happy and ready to teach, or why kids can’t learn from fat teachers: The discursive politics of school reform and teacher health

    Open Access•Carolyn Vander Schee, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2013

    The idea of using schools for public health ends has a long and complex history. If anything, interest in the public health role of schools may actually be intensifying, perhaps driven by the attention given to a range of health matters affecting young people, notably mental illness, drugs and alcohol, and obesity. This paper deals predominantly with obesity but emerges out of our ongoing research into both the nature and consequences of policies…

  • Disagreement, not misrecognition: A reply to Monaghan

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 1

  • Youth culture, physical education and the question of relevance: After 20 years, a reply to Tinning and Fitzclarence

    Michael Gard, Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2012•Cited by: 12•References: 3

    This article is an attempt to think through the idea that physical education should draw from youth culture in order to be more ‘relevant’ to students. We begin by revisiting Tinning and Fitzclarence's 1992 article ‘Postmodern youth culture and the crisis in Australian secondary school physical education’ in which they essentially argued that young people were bored by physical education because it had failed to keep pace with the pleasures they …

  • A meditation in which consideration is given to the past and future engagement of social science generally and critical physical education and sports scholarship in particular with various scientific …

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    My purpose in this paper is to consider the relationship between, on the one hand, critical social science and, on the other hand, existing and emerging sciences of the body. Taking my lead from the sociologist, Steve Fuller, I discuss the ways in which some social scientists, both within and outside physical education and sport, have engaged with the idea of an ‘obesity epidemic’, generally falling between the distant poles of naïve acceptance a…

  • On the myth of the crisis of representation: A response to Gilbourne, Jones and Jordan

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 2

    First, my thanks go to the editor of Sport, Education and Society for this rare opportunity to engage in open debate about an important scholarly issue and also to David Gilbourne, Robyn Jones and

  • Truth, belief and the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public health policy

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2010

    A number of debates centring on the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ have sprung up in the last 10 years. Although debate is the normal state of affairs in any scientific endeavour, my focus here is on two broad camps we might call ‘alarmists’ and ‘sceptics’. While alarmists have characterised the ‘obesity epidemic’ as a looming global health catastrophe, sceptics have argued that the consequences of rising obesity levels have either been greatly exa…

  • When a boy's gotta dance: New masculinities, old pleasures

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2008•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    Why would boys want to dance? Why would anyone want to dance? The argument prosecuted in this paper is that dance educators have tended to see dance as a self-evidently good thing with self-evident benefits for children who learn to dance. In other words, dance educators tend to concern themselves with why students should dance rather than why students want to dance or not dance. Instead, I propose that educators need also to think about how stud…

  • Fatness, Fitness, and the Moral Universe of Sport and Physical Activity

    Cathy Zanker, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2008•Cited by: 17•References: 5

    We use what we call collaborative autoethnography in this article to tell the story of “Lindsey,” a person for whom sport and physical activity have been both friend and enemy throughout her life. Our intention is to place stories about disordered eating and over-exercising alongside modern panics about obesity and to wonder how children are likely to process the different things they are told about body weight, sport, and physical activity. We d…

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  • Ehpe: A history of the future

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 28•References: 7

    A grand convergence looms. It seems at least plausible that health and physical education may soon be lived by students in ways that are radically different from the past and sharply at odds with the imaginings of its founders and generations of academic aficionados. Perhaps in some respects, the differences will be superficial and less important than the continuities. Nonetheless, I draw connections between some recent futurist literature, devel…

  • Managing Uncertainty: Obesity Discourses and Physical Education in a Risk Society

    Open Access•Michael Gard, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Studies in Philosophy and Education•2001•Cited by: 23•References: 22

  • Boys, Bodies, Pleasure and Pain: Interrogating Contact Sports in Schools

    Michael Gard, Robert Meyenn•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2000•Cited by: 19•References: 2

    This paper reports some of the findings of a qualitative study into the physical activity preferences of 23 Australian secondary school boys. The study was originally designed to examine the level of homogeneity amongst boys' physical activity preferences. Semi-structured interviewing techniques and video-taped footage were used to invite boys to discuss their reasons for choosing certain movement forms and rejecting others. However, in the cours…

  • Fatness, Fitness, and the Moral Universe of Sport and Physical Activity

    Cathy Zanker, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2008•Cited by: 17•References: 5

    We use what we call collaborative autoethnography in this article to tell the story of “Lindsey,” a person for whom sport and physical activity have been both friend and enemy throughout her life. Our intention is to place stories about disordered eating and over-exercising alongside modern panics about obesity and to wonder how children are likely to process the different things they are told about body weight, sport, and physical activity. We d…

  • The normalization of sport for older people

    Michael Gard, Rylee A Dionigi et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Leisure Research•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 14

    Opportunities for older adults in Western countries, particularly women, to participate in physically demanding, competitive sports have increased since the 1960s. Now, coinciding with the neoliberal shift in social policy, older adults live at a time when physical activity is highly encouraged through ‘healthy or active ageing’ discourses in media, policy policies and the sport/exercise sciences. This study sought to understand how 63 Masters at…

  • Youth culture, physical education and the question of relevance: After 20 years, a reply to Tinning and Fitzclarence

    Michael Gard, Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2012•Cited by: 12•References: 3

    This article is an attempt to think through the idea that physical education should draw from youth culture in order to be more ‘relevant’ to students. We begin by revisiting Tinning and Fitzclarence's 1992 article ‘Postmodern youth culture and the crisis in Australian secondary school physical education’ in which they essentially argued that young people were bored by physical education because it had failed to keep pace with the pleasures they …

  • When a boy's gotta dance: New masculinities, old pleasures

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2008•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    Why would boys want to dance? Why would anyone want to dance? The argument prosecuted in this paper is that dance educators have tended to see dance as a self-evidently good thing with self-evident benefits for children who learn to dance. In other words, dance educators tend to concern themselves with why students should dance rather than why students want to dance or not dance. Instead, I propose that educators need also to think about how stud…

  • Figuring out the prevalence of fitness testing in physical education: A figurational analysis

    Open Access•Laura Alfrey, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 17

    This paper explores the ways in which figurational sociology can offer a useful lens through which to understand the ongoing use of fitness testing as a means to physically educate young people. We contribute to a theoretical discussion around how physical education teachers have come to think about and enact fitness testing so pervasively. Applying a figurational lens: (a) encourages us to view fitness testing as a historically rooted practice; …

  • Looking beyond what's broken: Towards an appreciative research agenda for physical education and sport pedagogy

    Eimear Enright, Joanne Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    Despite the volume of research devoted to the many ills that beset the pedagogical field of physical education and sport, we begin by arguing that there has been insufficient attention given to the way scholars conceptualise change and imagine bringing it about. In particular, we point to a tendency within the field to prioritise problems—what’s broken—and suggest that this tendency harbours a self-fulfilling logic. Although somewhat oversold by …

  • Environmental attunement in the health and physical education canon: Emplaced connection to embodiment, community and ‘nature’

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 6•References: 24

    There have been unresolved calls for educators to connect and translate environmental links within health and physical education given the enduring absence, yet overlapping citizen priorities of health. In this Introductory paper to the Special Issue of environmental attunement in the health and/or physical education canon, we question if and how notions of nature and the environment might paradigmatically belong more centrally to the discipline.…

  • Environmental attunement in health, sport and physical education

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    This Special Issue on environmental attunement introduces seven papers that engage with a range of different insights and practices of nature-culture and embodied connections to place across health, sport and physical education. We have organised the papers into three themes that explore possibilities for: (i) notions of the environment and ‘nature’ in research and practice; (ii) possibilities and challenges of translating environment, sustainabi…

  • Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram

    Michael Gard, Carolyn Pluim•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2017•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    In posing the question in our title, we have set ourselves the task of trying to understand why so little scholarly scrutiny and questioning of Fitnessgram—a product designed to assist in the school-based physical fitness testing of young people—exists in the country of its origin and then consider the implications of this silence. We begin our interrogation by offering a broad definition of ‘critical scholarship’. We then briefly describe the co…

  • The governmentality of childhood obesity: Coca-Cola, public health and primary schools

    Open Access•Darren Powell, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 28

    In this paper, we examine the emergence of what might seem an unexpected policy outcome – a large multinational corporation, frequently blamed for exacerbating childhood obesity, operating as an officially sanctioned driver of anti-obesity initiatives in primary schools across the globe. We draw on Foucault's notion of governmentality to examine the pedagogical work of two international programmes devised and funded by Coca-Cola. We demonstrate h…

  • They know they're getting the best knowledge possible’: Locating the academic in changing knowledge economies

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    As the discussant of this special issue, I focus on two related ideas: choice and self-interest. First, I explore the idea of choice and its relevance within research that concerns itself with a heavily loaded concept like ‘social justice’. My proposal here is that future scholarship that explores the consequences of privatised health and physical education (HPE) might at least factor in choice as one from a list of competing priorities. For exam…

  • Postmodern Values and Leisure in Young Spanish University Students: An Exploratory Study

    Cornelio Aguila, Alvaro Sicilia et al.•ARTICLE•Leisure Sciences•2008•Cited by: 3•References: 34

    This article reports exploratory research about tendencies toward postmaterialism in university students. This paper used the theoretical framework proposed by Inglehart regarding three categories of leisure: postmaterialist, materialist and common. Students from a Spanish university (N = 1036) completed questionnaires that evaluated their materialist-postmaterialist values, how often they practiced the activities included in each category of lei…

  • Dancing around the 'Problem' of Boys and Dance

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2001•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    In this paper I Žfirstly propose a reading of this story which draws attention to the narrative’s investment and deployment of sexist and homophobic discourses in order to present its male subject as ‘normal’. The purpose here is not to criticise the authors of the story, but to highlight some of the problematic features of boy-friendly approaches to curriculum design generally, and the boys and dance ‘problem’ in particular. I argue that it is t…

  • Environmental attunement continued: People, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education

    R M Welch, Nicole Taylor et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education This second collection for the special issue on environmental attunement delves further into the possibilities of reimagining health, sport and physical education in relation to people, place, land and broader policy debates and governance about sustainable development.The collection represents a modest effort over time to sustain a…

  • Disagreement, not misrecognition: A reply to Monaghan

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 1

  • A meditation in which consideration is given to the past and future engagement of social science generally and critical physical education and sports scholarship in particular with various scientific …

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    My purpose in this paper is to consider the relationship between, on the one hand, critical social science and, on the other hand, existing and emerging sciences of the body. Taking my lead from the sociologist, Steve Fuller, I discuss the ways in which some social scientists, both within and outside physical education and sport, have engaged with the idea of an ‘obesity epidemic’, generally falling between the distant poles of naïve acceptance a…

  • On the myth of the crisis of representation: A response to Gilbourne, Jones and Jordan

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 2

    First, my thanks go to the editor of Sport, Education and Society for this rare opportunity to engage in open debate about an important scholarly issue and also to David Gilbourne, Robyn Jones and

  • Environment, technology and animals: Looking backwards and the future of physical education

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    I believe. I don't believe. Memories as history. History creates the future. Stories create oneself. Two years ago, I was involved in a conference session on post-human theory, organised by Rosie Welch and Nicole Taylor. This session forced me to interrogate my views and explore new connections to post-human scholarship. My position is not to look for new perspectives from 'new' theory. I do not want to argue about the value of post-humanist theo…

  • Physical education’s grand convergence: Fitnessgram ®, big-data and the digital commerce of children’s health

    Carolyn Pluim, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Education•2016•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    Fitnessgram® is a digital platform designed to help physical education teachers measure, record, disseminate and analyse the results of school-based student fitness testing. Despite important questions about the ethics, educational value and costs of Fitnessgram®, it is now widely used in the United States and is spreading to other countries. In this empirically investigative study, we draw on academic studies and commentary, media stories, gover…

  • Neither flower child nor artiste be: Aesthetics, ability and physical education

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    This paper examines the meaning of ability in the context of dance education, in part, via the lens of aesthetic education, a reasonably well-developed body of ideas, and asks what it means to be ‘aesthetically able’. While aesthetic education tends to focus on aesthetic appreciation, it does also deal with a person's capacity to respond to the world in aesthetic ways. But as well as trying to clarify what ability might mean from an aesthetic poi…

  • Boys, Bodies, Pleasure and Pain: Interrogating Contact Sports in Schools

    Michael Gard, Robert Meyenn•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2000•Cited by: 19•References: 2

    This paper reports some of the findings of a qualitative study into the physical activity preferences of 23 Australian secondary school boys. The study was originally designed to examine the level of homogeneity amongst boys' physical activity preferences. Semi-structured interviewing techniques and video-taped footage were used to invite boys to discuss their reasons for choosing certain movement forms and rejecting others. However, in the cours…

  • Managing Uncertainty: Obesity Discourses and Physical Education in a Risk Society

    Open Access•Michael Gard, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Studies in Philosophy and Education•2001•Cited by: 23•References: 22

  • Dancing around the 'Problem' of Boys and Dance

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2001•Cited by: 3•References: 18

    In this paper I Žfirstly propose a reading of this story which draws attention to the narrative’s investment and deployment of sexist and homophobic discourses in order to present its male subject as ‘normal’. The purpose here is not to criticise the authors of the story, but to highlight some of the problematic features of boy-friendly approaches to curriculum design generally, and the boys and dance ‘problem’ in particular. I argue that it is t…

  • Moving and Belonging: Dance, sport and sexuality

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sex Education•2003

    In this paper I explore the notion of gendered 'investments' in particular forms of physical activity; what is at stake when people choose one way of using their body rather than others? First, I present data from a life history interview with, Ralph, an Australian professional male dancer. In this interview, Ralph talks about the way he has experienced dance throughout his life and how his investments in being a particular kind of male (straight…

  • The obesity epidemic: Science, Morality, and Ideology

    Michael Gard•BOOK•The obesity epidemic•2004

    This is a controversial book about a critical theme in health and exercise studies. It provides much needed, thorough and reflective analysis of the current state of research and will transform debates about body weight, physical activity, food and health. It is essential reading for anyone interested in health and obesity issues, including teachers, scientists, health workers, doctors and policy makers."--Jacket

  • The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology

    Michael Gard, Jan Wright•BOOK•Obesity Epidemic•2005

  • Neither flower child nor artiste be: Aesthetics, ability and physical education

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2006•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    This paper examines the meaning of ability in the context of dance education, in part, via the lens of aesthetic education, a reasonably well-developed body of ideas, and asks what it means to be ‘aesthetically able’. While aesthetic education tends to focus on aesthetic appreciation, it does also deal with a person's capacity to respond to the world in aesthetic ways. But as well as trying to clarify what ability might mean from an aesthetic poi…

  • The Globalization of Sexuality

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sociological Research Online•2006

  • When a boy's gotta dance: New masculinities, old pleasures

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2008•Cited by: 11•References: 5

    Why would boys want to dance? Why would anyone want to dance? The argument prosecuted in this paper is that dance educators have tended to see dance as a self-evidently good thing with self-evident benefits for children who learn to dance. In other words, dance educators tend to concern themselves with why students should dance rather than why students want to dance or not dance. Instead, I propose that educators need also to think about how stud…

  • Fatness, Fitness, and the Moral Universe of Sport and Physical Activity

    Cathy Zanker, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2008•Cited by: 17•References: 5

    We use what we call collaborative autoethnography in this article to tell the story of “Lindsey,” a person for whom sport and physical activity have been both friend and enemy throughout her life. Our intention is to place stories about disordered eating and over-exercising alongside modern panics about obesity and to wonder how children are likely to process the different things they are told about body weight, sport, and physical activity. We d…

  • Postmodern Values and Leisure in Young Spanish University Students: An Exploratory Study

    Cornelio Aguila, Alvaro Sicilia et al.•ARTICLE•Leisure Sciences•2008•Cited by: 3•References: 34

    This article reports exploratory research about tendencies toward postmaterialism in university students. This paper used the theoretical framework proposed by Inglehart regarding three categories of leisure: postmaterialist, materialist and common. Students from a Spanish university (N = 1036) completed questionnaires that evaluated their materialist-postmaterialist values, how often they practiced the activities included in each category of lei…

  • Truth, belief and the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public health policy

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2010

    A number of debates centring on the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ have sprung up in the last 10 years. Although debate is the normal state of affairs in any scientific endeavour, my focus here is on two broad camps we might call ‘alarmists’ and ‘sceptics’. While alarmists have characterised the ‘obesity epidemic’ as a looming global health catastrophe, sceptics have argued that the consequences of rising obesity levels have either been greatly exa…

  • A meditation in which consideration is given to the past and future engagement of social science generally and critical physical education and sports scholarship in particular with various scientific …

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    My purpose in this paper is to consider the relationship between, on the one hand, critical social science and, on the other hand, existing and emerging sciences of the body. Taking my lead from the sociologist, Steve Fuller, I discuss the ways in which some social scientists, both within and outside physical education and sport, have engaged with the idea of an ‘obesity epidemic’, generally falling between the distant poles of naïve acceptance a…

  • On the myth of the crisis of representation: A response to Gilbourne, Jones and Jordan

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 2

    First, my thanks go to the editor of Sport, Education and Society for this rare opportunity to engage in open debate about an important scholarly issue and also to David Gilbourne, Robyn Jones and

  • Disagreement, not misrecognition: A reply to Monaghan

    Open Access•Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2012•Cited by: 2•References: 1

  • Youth culture, physical education and the question of relevance: After 20 years, a reply to Tinning and Fitzclarence

    Michael Gard, Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2012•Cited by: 12•References: 3

    This article is an attempt to think through the idea that physical education should draw from youth culture in order to be more ‘relevant’ to students. We begin by revisiting Tinning and Fitzclarence's 1992 article ‘Postmodern youth culture and the crisis in Australian secondary school physical education’ in which they essentially argued that young people were bored by physical education because it had failed to keep pace with the pleasures they …

  • Healthy, happy and ready to teach, or why kids can’t learn from fat teachers: The discursive politics of school reform and teacher health

    Open Access•Carolyn Vander Schee, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2013

    The idea of using schools for public health ends has a long and complex history. If anything, interest in the public health role of schools may actually be intensifying, perhaps driven by the attention given to a range of health matters affecting young people, notably mental illness, drugs and alcohol, and obesity. This paper deals predominantly with obesity but emerges out of our ongoing research into both the nature and consequences of policies…

  • A crack where the light gets in: A study of Health and Physical Education teachers' perspectives on fitness testing as a context for learning about health

    Laura Alfrey, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Health…•2014

    Despite extensive critique, the teaching of Health and Physical Education (HPE) continues to be characterised by individualised and performative ideologies which are reflected in part by a continued focus upon fitness testing. There has been little attempt, however, to explore Australian HPE teachers' thoughts and reasoning for its privileged inclusion in their programmes. This paper draws on findings from a broader two-phase, mixed-method resear…

  • Schools and critical public health: Towards dialogue, collaboration and action

    Open Access•Michael Gard, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2014

    For a field that generates so many research publications, school health is the focus of remarkably little critical scholarly analysis. This is a curious situation for many reasons, not least becaus

  • They know they're getting the best knowledge possible’: Locating the academic in changing knowledge economies

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 2

    As the discussant of this special issue, I focus on two related ideas: choice and self-interest. First, I explore the idea of choice and its relevance within research that concerns itself with a heavily loaded concept like ‘social justice’. My proposal here is that future scholarship that explores the consequences of privatised health and physical education (HPE) might at least factor in choice as one from a list of competing priorities. For exam…

  • Looking beyond what's broken: Towards an appreciative research agenda for physical education and sport pedagogy

    Eimear Enright, Joanne Hill et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 8•References: 11

    Despite the volume of research devoted to the many ills that beset the pedagogical field of physical education and sport, we begin by arguing that there has been insufficient attention given to the way scholars conceptualise change and imagine bringing it about. In particular, we point to a tendency within the field to prioritise problems—what’s broken—and suggest that this tendency harbours a self-fulfilling logic. Although somewhat oversold by …

  • Research Forum Introduction: Ehpe

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014

  • Ehpe: A history of the future

    Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2014•Cited by: 28•References: 7

    A grand convergence looms. It seems at least plausible that health and physical education may soon be lived by students in ways that are radically different from the past and sharply at odds with the imaginings of its founders and generations of academic aficionados. Perhaps in some respects, the differences will be superficial and less important than the continuities. Nonetheless, I draw connections between some recent futurist literature, devel…

  • The governmentality of childhood obesity: Coca-Cola, public health and primary schools

    Open Access•Darren Powell, Michael Gard•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 28

    In this paper, we examine the emergence of what might seem an unexpected policy outcome – a large multinational corporation, frequently blamed for exacerbating childhood obesity, operating as an officially sanctioned driver of anti-obesity initiatives in primary schools across the globe. We draw on Foucault's notion of governmentality to examine the pedagogical work of two international programmes devised and funded by Coca-Cola. We demonstrate h…

  • Computer says no: An analysis of three digital food education resources

    Michael Gard, Eimear Enright•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Health…•2016

    What kind of thing will food education become in digitised classrooms? Drawn from a broader research project concerned with the ‘e turn’ in school health and physical education, this paper analyses three examples of digital food education (DEF). This is done by considering the role of digital technology in changing – or not changing – earlier forms of food education. In each case, these processes are viewed as portals of connection through which …

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