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ID3601653
NAMEJan Wright
GIVEN NAMESJan
FAMILY NAMEWright
SIGNATUREWRIGHT J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wollongong
ORCID0000-0003-0935-0915
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS610
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX14
  • Introduction to the special issue, ‘reimagining curriculum, policy and pedagogy in health and physical education: Chinese societies and Chinese diasporas’

    Bonnie Pang, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2026

  • A pedagogical examination of the potential of Iyengar yoga for trauma

    Natasha Larkin, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2022•References: 7

    In recent years, interest in the therapeutic potential of yoga for people recovering from trauma has flourished. To date, much of this research on yoga for trauma adopts a quantitative methodology that positions yoga as a medicalised intervention to understand if yoga is ‘effective’ for trauma recovery for adults. This paper seeks to contribute to an emerging body of qualitative literature by drawing on the voices of eight Iyengar yoga teachers w…

  • Cultivating ‘health’ in the school garden

    Nicole Taylor, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 9

    There has been a recent surge in the popularity of school gardening programmes with different models claiming to address learning outcomes within the curriculum. For example, the ‘kitchen garden’ concept has had a rapid uptake across many Australian schools, promoted by both government curriculum support documents, and private organisations. Research points to the ‘use’ of school gardens as an initiative that predominantly draws on discourses of …

  • The ineffable allure of sugar - Hammer cake, That Sugar Film and contradictory pleasures

    Supski, Claire Tanner et al.•ARTICLE•Food and Foodways•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 25

    This article explores the complicated place of sugar in the display of family connectedness and health in a white, middle class Australian family. In the context of heightened anxiety about childhood obesity, we present the Baker family as a case study to explore the pleasures and tensions that sugar consumption produces in families. On their birthdays, each child has a luxurious “Hammer Cake” coated in chocolate studded with sweets; simultaneous…

  • Responsibility and Responsibilisation in Education

    Christine Halse, Catherine Hartung et al.•BOOK•Responsibility and Responsibilisati…•2019

  • The family meals imperative and everyday family life: An analysis of children’s photos and videos

    Open Access•J Lindsay, Claire Tanner et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2019

    At a time of increasing diversity in family forms and family practices the evening family meal is promoted as an imperative; a straightforward solution to complex social problems such as childhood obesity, family breakdown and depression. In this paper we discuss the challenges faced by families in achieving this imperative on an everyday basis drawing on visual data generated by children from a qualitative research project with 50 diverse famili…

  • Children, ‘healthy’ food, school and family: The ‘[n]ot really’ outcome of school food messages

    Janemaree Maher, Supski et al.•ARTICLE•Children s Geographies•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 11

    This paper draws on a multi-method study with 50 families in Victoria, Australia. Primary school children were asked about food knowledge from school and whether they felt motivated to bring knowledge home. Generally, children and parents felt school food messages are unclear, contradictory and not relevant to them and this reduced the likelihood of messages coming home from school. We identify a critical difference in how families thought about …

  • Runners, jumpers and throwers: Embodied gender hierarchies in track and field

    Kelly Ashbolt, Gabrielle O’Flynn et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2018•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    There is currently considerable sociological research on women’s experiences in sport, the social construction of gender in women’s sport and inequalities between women and men. However, research is yet to examine how inequalities and gender construction occur in and through the hierarchies within women’s sports. Track and Field, with its differentiated events is a sport characterised by hierarchies, with Track events at the top and Field events …

  • Embodied encounters with more-than-human nature in health and physical education

    Nicole Taylor, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 16

    Despite the importance of interactions with natural environments for personal and social well-being, there is only limited evidence of the relationship between the environment and health as an idea or area of study in school education in Australia. Logically, the place for such a study, at least in Australia, would be within the Health & Physical Education (HPE) key learning area. However, in HPE, alternative ways of considering health beyond the…

  • Languages discourses in Australian middle-class schools: Parent and Student Perspectives

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Ken Cruickshank et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 14

    Much of the literature on social class and language study in schools argues that for middle-class parents and their children, languages are chosen for their capacity to offer forms of distinction that provide an edge in the global labour market. In this paper, we draw on data collected from interviews with parents and children in middle-class schools in Australia to demonstrate how a complex amalgam of elite, cultural identity and/or trade langua…

  • The political is critical: Explorations of the contemporary politics of knowledge in health and physical education

    Deana Leahy, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2017•References: 4

    This special issue has been conceived to acknowledge the advances in inquiry and understandings that political and critical scholarship has facilitated. Perhaps more importantly, it seeks to reveal the limits of contemporary ‘political’ and/or ‘critical’ research in the field and encourage fresh thinking about a number of issues, including not least, the relationship between political and critical research. In our editorial we highlight a number …

  • Responsibility and responsibilisation in education

    Open Access•C Halse, Catherine Hartung et al.•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2017•Cited by: 2

    Debates about responsibility and responsibilisation pervade contemporary social, political\nand moral life. For this reason, how they are configured, operate, inter-relate and their\neffects have been the subject of theoretical work across multiple disciplines and sub-disciplines,\nincluding but not limited to sociology, economics, business and accounting,\nethics, health and psychoanalysis. Here, scholars have sought to document and account\nfor…

  • The struggle for legitimacy: Language provision in two ‘residual’ comprehensive high schools in Australia

    Stephen Black, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Education•2016•Cited by: 3•References: 6

    Despite the contemporary policy rhetoric of global citizenry and the importance of languages and intercultural capabilities, language learning in Australian schools struggles for recognition and support. The curriculum marginalisation of languages, however, is uneven, affecting some school sectors more than others. In this article, we examine the provision of languages in two government comprehensive high schools, both low socio-economic status, …

  • Biopedagogies and Indigenous knowledge: Examining sport for development and peace for urban Indigenous young women in Canada and Australia

    Lyndsay Hayhurst, Audrey R Giles et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 9

    This paper uses transnational postcolonial feminist participatory action research (TPFPAR) to examine two sport for development and peace (SDP) initiatives that focus on Indigenous young women residing in urban areas, one in Vancouver, Canada, and one in Perth, Australia. We examine how SDP programs that target urban Indigenous young women and girls reproduce the hegemony of neoliberalism by deploying biopedagogies of neoliberalism to ‘teach’ Ind…

  • Down the methodological rabbit hole: Thinking Diffractively With Resistant Data

    Open Access•Gary Levy, C Halse et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 29

    This article, part of a larger study, began with an inquiry into the ways a small group of preteen boys and girls with diagnosed eating disorders discussed their ideas and attitudes about healthy bodies in individual interviews. Despite applying some of the usual analytic procedures, the data yielded little of significance in relation to body and health discourses, or to gender differences. We therefore wondered whether our underlying epistemolog…

  • Preteen Boys, Body Image, and Eating Disorders

    Open Access•Jan Wright, C Halse et al.•ARTICLE•Men and Masculinities•2016•References: 35

    In recent years, academic and public attention has increasingly focused on the issue of men's preoccupation with body image and the increasing incidence of eating disorders among men. Although most of this focus has been on young and adult males, media discourse has tended to extend explanations for men's aspirations for social body ideals to explanations for eating disorders in young boys. In this article, we take a critical look at the way the …

  • Social class, anxieties and mothers' foodwork

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Janemaree Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2015•Cited by: 31•References: 46

    In the context of concerns about childhood obesity, mothers are placed at the forefront of responsibility for shaping the eating behaviour and consequently the health of their young children. This is evident in a multitude of diverse sites such as government reports, health promotion materials, reality TV shows and the advice of childcare nurses and preschools. These sites produce a range of resources available to mothers to draw on to constitute…

  • Australian mothers’ notions of risk and uncertainty in relation to their pre-teen children

    Jan Wright, C Halse et al.•ARTICLE•Health Risk & Society•2014

    In this article we examine the ways discourses of risk manifested and played out within and across two groups of Australian mothers living in two large urban centres in Australia: the first comprised of mothers who had a pre-teen child diagnosed with an eating disorder (n=13); the second of mothers who had a pre-teen child without the symptoms or diagnosis of an eating disorder (n=13). In 2011 and 2012, we conducted in-depth interviews with the m…

  • 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

  • Finding education: Stories of how young former refugees constituted strategic identities in order to access school

    Jonnell Uptin, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Race Ethnicity and Education•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    Educators in resettlement countries are grappling with ways to adequately engage and meet the needs of newly arrived refugee students. In this article we argue that to fully meet the needs of refugee students a deeper understanding of their educational experience as ‘a refugee’ prior to resettlement is vital. In particular we foreground the stories of three young former refugees and explore the ways in which they actively constructed new identiti…

  • The healthy child citizen: Biopedagogies and web-based health promotion

    Jan Wright, C Halse•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 26

    The health of children in affluent economies has become closely tied to the ideal of a normative body weight achieved by monitoring and balancing diet and physical activity. As a result, the education of young people on how to avoid becoming fat begins at an early age through the language and practices of families, the messages embedded in children’s media, and through formal schooling. In this paper we use the concept of biopedagogies to investi…

  • Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education: Working with Students in Schools

    Lisette Burrows, Doune Macdonald et al.•BOOK•Critical Inquiry and Problem…•2013

    Critical inquiry, critical thinking and problem-solving are key concepts in contemporary physical education. But how do physical educators actually do critical inquiry and critical thinking? Critical Inquiry and Problem-Solving in Physical Education explains the principles and assumptions underpinning these concepts and provides detailed examples of how they can be used in the teaching of physical education for different age groups and in a range…

  • Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education: Working with Students in Schools

    Doune Macdonald, Jan Wright et al.•BOOK•Critical Inquiry and Problem…•2013

  • A critical ‘critical inquiry’ proposition in Health and Physical Education

    Deana Leahy, Gabrielle O'Flynn et al.•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Health…•2013

    A critical inquiry approach is one of five key charateristics that have shaped the development of the new Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (AC: HPE). However, what this means is open to interpretation. In the various documents leading to the consultation draft AC: HPE and in this document itself, critical inquiry is used in varying ways with differing intentions. In this paper, we examine the conditions of possibility for part…

  • Responsibility and resistance: Women negotiating the nourishment of children

    Janemaree Maher, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Families Relationships and…•2013•Cited by: 5

    Childhood obesity is identified as a key public health challenge. Women have been made responsible for this new aspect of ‘good’ child feeding. In this article we draw on a study of Australian mothers of preschool-aged children to explore how women integrate new demands for healthy eating into their daily feeding practices. We found that these women were highly responsive to discourses of responsibility for ‘healthy eating’ (and fearful of obesit…

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  • Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic': Governing Bodies

    Jan Wright, Valerie Harwood•BOOK•(Biopolitics And The )h•2012•Cited by: 67

    Part I: Biopolitics and the 'Obesity Epidemic' 1. Bio-power, Biopedagogies and the Obesity Epidemic Jan Wright 2. Theorizing Biopedagogies Valerie Harwood 3. Friends, Enemies and the Cultural Politics of Critical Obesity Research Michael Gard 4. Bio-Citizenship: Virtue Discourses and the Birth of the Bio-Citizen Christine Halse 5. Doctor's Orders: Diagnosis, Medical Authority and the Exploitation of the Fat Body Annemarie Jutel 6. Marked as 'Path…

  • Being Fit and Looking Healthy: Young Women’s and Men’s Constructions of Health and Fitness

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Gabrielle O’Flynn et al.•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•2006•Cited by: 53•References: 10

  • Prescribing Practices: Shaping Healthy Children in Schools

    Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2007•Cited by: 42

    Current concerns in New Zealand and abroad about the health and well-being of young people have generated a raft of government-sponsored and educational policies and practices geared towards the production of trim, taut and fit subjects who choose wisely from the range of risky ‘options’ available to them in avowedly new and changing times. These initiatives yield consequences for children and young people who are increasingly being urged, in Fou…

  • The Construction of Complementarity in Physical Education

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•1996•Cited by: 41•References: 2

    This paper discusses the ways in which feminine and masculine subjectivities are constructed as complementary-that is, defined in opposition to one another. This concept will be explored in the context of secondary physical education through an analysis of open-ended interviews with students and teachers as they talk about themselves and each other in relation to physical activity and their expectations of masculine and feminine bodies. It will b…

  • Physical Activity and Young People: Beyond Participation

    Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2003•Cited by: 37

    The quantitative literature on physical activity participation patterns leaves many questions about the place and significance of physical activity in the lives of young people unanswered. This paper begins to address this absence by attempting to understand physical activity from the point of view of young people and in relation to other aspects of their lives. It discusses interviews with 28 female and 34 male students from three Australian hig…

  • Framing the mother: Childhood Obesity, Maternal Responsibility and Care

    Janemaree Maher, Fraser et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Gender Studies•2010•Cited by: 35•References: 32

    Currently in developed nations, childhood obesity is generating widespread concern and prompting social and institutional responses. Obesity is constructed as a broad public health crisis, but individuals are constructed as responsible for their own bodies and body sizes within this crisis. We are particularly interested in two aspects that focus on women as central to this phenomenon; the first is the imputation of maternal responsibility for th…

  • Social class, anxieties and mothers' foodwork

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Janemaree Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2015•Cited by: 31•References: 46

    In the context of concerns about childhood obesity, mothers are placed at the forefront of responsibility for shaping the eating behaviour and consequently the health of their young children. This is evident in a multitude of diverse sites such as government reports, health promotion materials, reality TV shows and the advice of childcare nurses and preschools. These sites produce a range of resources available to mothers to draw on to constitute…

  • 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

  • Sport, the Media and the Construction of Compulsory Heterosexuality: A Case Study of Women's Rugby Union

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Gill Clarke•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•1999•Cited by: 23•References: 16

    Media representations of sport are particularly powerful in naturalizing and normalizing hegemonic meanings about the body and social relations. While there is a considerable body of research that analyses how gender differences are constructed in media coverage of sport, much of this research does not question the hegemony of heterosexual relations. This article extends this research by exploring how print media representations of sport contribu…

  • Changing Gendered Practices in Physi Education: Working with Teachers

    Open Access•Jan Wright•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•1999•Cited by: 19•References: 1

    This paper examines new possibilities for gender reform in physical education in the context of what has gone before. The first section of the paper reviews the ways in which gender reform in physical education has been theorized and implemented in the United Kingdom and Australia, and the second reports on an Australian professional development and evaluation project which has been informed by a position which understands gender as socially cons…

  • The Construction of Gendered Contexts in Single Sex and Co‐educational Physical Education Lessons

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•1997•Cited by: 18•References: 9

    With the ‘linguistic turn’ in contemporary social theory there has been an increased interest in looking more closely at pedagogical practices in physical education as they construct social relations. Initially, and within a rather different theoretical framework this took the form of counting the number and kind of interactions teachers had with boys as compared to girls. More recently researchers have begun to look closely at how language choic…

  • Between bodies and collectivities: Articulating the action of emotion in obesity epidemic discourse

    Open Access•Fraser, Janemaree Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2010•Cited by: 17•References: 11

  • We Be Killin’ Them”: Hierarchies of Black Masculinity in Urban Basketball Spaces

    Matthew Atencio, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2008•Cited by: 15•References: 2

    This article examines a local park basketball culture and shows how discursive practices constituted masculine hierarchies and proliferated black masculinities. Through pickup basketball, several young black men took up various positions of power and were able to determine access to neighborhood parks and dictate the codes of behavior. Drawing on poststructural and social geography theories, we argue that male power became authorized through the …

  • The good life: New Zealand children's perspectives on health and self

    Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2004•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    In New Zealand, the introduction of a new health and physical education curriculum, coupled with extraordinary levels of lay and professional concern about children's health (as recorded by the Adolescent Health Research Group in 2003) has contributed to a reconceptualisation of health education practices in schools. Policy and professional interventions are increasingly focused on enhancing children's sense of themselves as agentic beings with t…

  • Biopedagogies and Indigenous knowledge: Examining sport for development and peace for urban Indigenous young women in Canada and Australia

    Lyndsay Hayhurst, Audrey R Giles et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2016•Cited by: 13•References: 9

    This paper uses transnational postcolonial feminist participatory action research (TPFPAR) to examine two sport for development and peace (SDP) initiatives that focus on Indigenous young women residing in urban areas, one in Vancouver, Canada, and one in Perth, Australia. We examine how SDP programs that target urban Indigenous young women and girls reproduce the hegemony of neoliberalism by deploying biopedagogies of neoliberalism to ‘teach’ Ind…

  • Confusing and contradictory: Considering obesity discourse and eating disorders as they shape body pedagogies in HPE

    Ken Cliff, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2010•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had damaging consequences for the ways young women have come to understand and act on their bodies. The re…

  • Young Men's Physical Activity Choices: The Impact of Capital, Masculinities, and Location

    Open Access•Jessica Lee, Doune Macdonald et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sport and Social Issues•2009•Cited by: 13•References: 16

    This article draws on data from an Australian longitudinal study into the place and meaning of physical activity and physical culture in the lives of young people. The aim of the national study is to add meaning to the statistics based on quantitative surveys that suggest a declining participation rate and satisfaction of young people in organized sports, recreational physical activities, and exercise. Frequently, socioeconomic status, gender, an…

  • Bodies, Meanings and Movement: A Comparison of the Language of a Physical Education Lesson and a Feldenkrais Movement Class

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2000•Cited by: 13•References: 6

    In Western societies since (and probably before) Descartes, the human body has been objectified and alienated from the self, something to be subdued, managed and more recently worked upon as symbol of self-value. Sport and exercise are sites where the objectification of the body has been traditionally promoted. In recent times with the scientisation of elite sport and the commodification of bodies in sport, the objectification of the body has tak…

  • Re-conceiving ability in physical education: A social analysis

    Jan Wright, Lisette Burrows•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2006•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    In this paper we explore how ‘ability’ is currently conceptualised in physical education and with what effects for different groups of young people. We interrogate approaches to theorising ability in physical education that draw on sociological and phenomenological ‘foundations’ together with notions of ability as ‘physical’ and ‘cultural capital’ drawn from the work of Bourdieu. We also look to data we and others have collected across a number o…

  • Down the methodological rabbit hole: Thinking Diffractively With Resistant Data

    Open Access•Gary Levy, C Halse et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 29

    This article, part of a larger study, began with an inquiry into the ways a small group of preteen boys and girls with diagnosed eating disorders discussed their ideas and attitudes about healthy bodies in individual interviews. Despite applying some of the usual analytic procedures, the data yielded little of significance in relation to body and health discourses, or to gender differences. We therefore wondered whether our underlying epistemolog…

  • Shepherds in the gym: Employing a pastoral power analytic on caring teaching in HPE

    Louise Mccuaig, Marie Öhman et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Cited by: 11•References: 9

    Drawing on research conducted in Australian Health' and Physical Education (HPE) and Swedish Physical Education and Health (PEH), this paper demonstrates the analytic possibilities of Foucault's notion of pastoral power to reveal the moral and ethical work conducted by HPE/PEH teachers in producing healthy active citizens. We use the pastoral power analytic to make visible the consequences of caring HPE/PEH teaching practices which appear unassai…

  • The healthy child citizen: Biopedagogies and web-based health promotion

    Jan Wright, C Halse•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology of…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 26

    The health of children in affluent economies has become closely tied to the ideal of a normative body weight achieved by monitoring and balancing diet and physical activity. As a result, the education of young people on how to avoid becoming fat begins at an early age through the language and practices of families, the messages embedded in children’s media, and through formal schooling. In this paper we use the concept of biopedagogies to investi…

  • Embodied encounters with more-than-human nature in health and physical education

    Nicole Taylor, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2018•Cited by: 9•References: 16

    Despite the importance of interactions with natural environments for personal and social well-being, there is only limited evidence of the relationship between the environment and health as an idea or area of study in school education in Australia. Logically, the place for such a study, at least in Australia, would be within the Health & Physical Education (HPE) key learning area. However, in HPE, alternative ways of considering health beyond the…

  • Finding education: Stories of how young former refugees constituted strategic identities in order to access school

    Jonnell Uptin, Jan Wright et al.•ARTICLE•Race Ethnicity and Education•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 13

    Educators in resettlement countries are grappling with ways to adequately engage and meet the needs of newly arrived refugee students. In this article we argue that to fully meet the needs of refugee students a deeper understanding of their educational experience as ‘a refugee’ prior to resettlement is vital. In particular we foreground the stories of three young former refugees and explore the ways in which they actively constructed new identiti…

  • Ballet it’s too whitey’: Discursive hierarchies of high school dance spaces and the constitution of embodied feminine subjectivities

    Matthew Atencio, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2008•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    This article investigates (i) how the structuring practices and meanings associated with dance classes at an inner‐city American high school operated as institutional spaces (re)producing ‘dividing practices’ that supported racial and classed hierarchies; (ii) how these racist structures were created and maintained relative to dominant notions of embodiment, ‘race’, social class, femininity, and dance; and (iii) the way these dominant practices a…

  • The Containment of Urban England: Discussion

    Peter Cowan, Peter J Cowan et al.•ARTICLE•Geographical Journal•1974•Cited by: 1

  • Gracefulness and strength: Sexuality in the Seoul Olympics

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•1991•Cited by: 6•References: 1

    (1991). Gracefulness and strength: Sexuality in the Seoul Olympics. Social Semiotics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-66

  • Regulation and resistance: The physical education lesson as speech genre

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•1993•Cited by: 2•References: 7

  • The Construction of Complementarity in Physical Education

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•1996•Cited by: 41•References: 2

    This paper discusses the ways in which feminine and masculine subjectivities are constructed as complementary-that is, defined in opposition to one another. This concept will be explored in the context of secondary physical education through an analysis of open-ended interviews with students and teachers as they talk about themselves and each other in relation to physical activity and their expectations of masculine and feminine bodies. It will b…

  • The Construction of Gendered Contexts in Single Sex and Co‐educational Physical Education Lessons

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•1997•Cited by: 18•References: 9

    With the ‘linguistic turn’ in contemporary social theory there has been an increased interest in looking more closely at pedagogical practices in physical education as they construct social relations. Initially, and within a rather different theoretical framework this took the form of counting the number and kind of interactions teachers had with boys as compared to girls. More recently researchers have begun to look closely at how language choic…

  • Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood

    Open Access•Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Education Quarterly•1998

    Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Shirley R. Steinberg and Joe L. Kincheloe, eds. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 270 pp

  • Changing Gendered Practices in Physi Education: Working with Teachers

    Open Access•Jan Wright•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•1999•Cited by: 19•References: 1

    This paper examines new possibilities for gender reform in physical education in the context of what has gone before. The first section of the paper reviews the ways in which gender reform in physical education has been theorized and implemented in the United Kingdom and Australia, and the second reports on an Australian professional development and evaluation project which has been informed by a position which understands gender as socially cons…

  • Sport, the Media and the Construction of Compulsory Heterosexuality: A Case Study of Women's Rugby Union

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Gill Clarke•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•1999•Cited by: 23•References: 16

    Media representations of sport are particularly powerful in naturalizing and normalizing hegemonic meanings about the body and social relations. While there is a considerable body of research that analyses how gender differences are constructed in media coverage of sport, much of this research does not question the hegemony of heterosexual relations. This article extends this research by exploring how print media representations of sport contribu…

  • Bodies, Meanings and Movement: A Comparison of the Language of a Physical Education Lesson and a Feldenkrais Movement Class

    Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2000•Cited by: 13•References: 6

    In Western societies since (and probably before) Descartes, the human body has been objectified and alienated from the self, something to be subdued, managed and more recently worked upon as symbol of self-value. Sport and exercise are sites where the objectification of the body has been traditionally promoted. In recent times with the scientisation of elite sport and the commodification of bodies in sport, the objectification of the body has tak…

  • Developing Children in New Zealand School Physical Education

    Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2001•Cited by: 5•References: 6

    This paper critically examines the assumptions about 'childhood' and 'child development' that inform curriculum construction in school physical education. Drawing on insights from poststructuralist social theory and critical psychological perspectives, the paper argues that developmental discourses have a material life embodied in the institutional practices of school physical education. A New Zealand physical education syllabus is used as an ill…

  • 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

  • Physical Activity and Young People: Beyond Participation

    Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2003•Cited by: 37

    The quantitative literature on physical activity participation patterns leaves many questions about the place and significance of physical activity in the lives of young people unanswered. This paper begins to address this absence by attempting to understand physical activity from the point of view of young people and in relation to other aspects of their lives. It discusses interviews with 28 female and 34 male students from three Australian hig…

  • Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health

    Chris Shilling, John Evans et al.•BOOK•Body Knowledge and Control•2004

  • Critical inquiry and problem-solving in physical education

    Jan Wright•BOOK•Critical inquiry and problem-solvin…•2004

  • The good life: New Zealand children's perspectives on health and self

    Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2004•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    In New Zealand, the introduction of a new health and physical education curriculum, coupled with extraordinary levels of lay and professional concern about children's health (as recorded by the Adolescent Health Research Group in 2003) has contributed to a reconceptualisation of health education practices in schools. Policy and professional interventions are increasingly focused on enhancing children's sense of themselves as agentic beings with t…

  • Being Healthy: The discursive construction of health in New Zealand children's responses to the National Education Monitoring Project

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Lisette Burrows•ARTICLE•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2004•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    In this paper we examine the discursive resources that year 4 and year 8 students draw on to construct meanings for health. Drawing on students' responses to tasks in the New Zealand National Monitoring Project (Crooks & Flockton, Health & Physical Education, University of Otago Educational Assessment Research Unit, 1999) we examine what students have to say about health, and speculate on where these responses have come from and on the implicatio…

  • The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology

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

  • Re-conceiving ability in physical education: A social analysis

    Jan Wright, Lisette Burrows•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2006•Cited by: 12•References: 10

    In this paper we explore how ‘ability’ is currently conceptualised in physical education and with what effects for different groups of young people. We interrogate approaches to theorising ability in physical education that draw on sociological and phenomenological ‘foundations’ together with notions of ability as ‘physical’ and ‘cultural capital’ drawn from the work of Bourdieu. We also look to data we and others have collected across a number o…

  • Being Fit and Looking Healthy: Young Women’s and Men’s Constructions of Health and Fitness

    Open Access•Jan Wright, Gabrielle O’Flynn et al.•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•2006•Cited by: 53•References: 10

  • Prescribing Practices: Shaping Healthy Children in Schools

    Lisette Burrows, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•2007•Cited by: 42

    Current concerns in New Zealand and abroad about the health and well-being of young people have generated a raft of government-sponsored and educational policies and practices geared towards the production of trim, taut and fit subjects who choose wisely from the range of risky ‘options’ available to them in avowedly new and changing times. These initiatives yield consequences for children and young people who are increasingly being urged, in Fou…

  • Ballet it’s too whitey’: Discursive hierarchies of high school dance spaces and the constitution of embodied feminine subjectivities

    Matthew Atencio, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Gender and Education•2008•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    This article investigates (i) how the structuring practices and meanings associated with dance classes at an inner‐city American high school operated as institutional spaces (re)producing ‘dividing practices’ that supported racial and classed hierarchies; (ii) how these racist structures were created and maintained relative to dominant notions of embodiment, ‘race’, social class, femininity, and dance; and (iii) the way these dominant practices a…

  • We Be Killin’ Them”: Hierarchies of Black Masculinity in Urban Basketball Spaces

    Matthew Atencio, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2008•Cited by: 15•References: 2

    This article examines a local park basketball culture and shows how discursive practices constituted masculine hierarchies and proliferated black masculinities. Through pickup basketball, several young black men took up various positions of power and were able to determine access to neighborhood parks and dictate the codes of behavior. Drawing on poststructural and social geography theories, we argue that male power became authorized through the …

  • Young Men's Physical Activity Choices: The Impact of Capital, Masculinities, and Location

    Open Access•Jessica Lee, Doune Macdonald et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Sport and Social Issues•2009•Cited by: 13•References: 16

    This article draws on data from an Australian longitudinal study into the place and meaning of physical activity and physical culture in the lives of young people. The aim of the national study is to add meaning to the statistics based on quantitative surveys that suggest a declining participation rate and satisfaction of young people in organized sports, recreational physical activities, and exercise. Frequently, socioeconomic status, gender, an…

  • Between bodies and collectivities: Articulating the action of emotion in obesity epidemic discourse

    Open Access•Fraser, Janemaree Maher et al.•ARTICLE•Social Theory & Health•2010•Cited by: 17•References: 11

  • Confusing and contradictory: Considering obesity discourse and eating disorders as they shape body pedagogies in HPE

    Ken Cliff, Jan Wright•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2010•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    We suggest that recent concerns about young people's excess body weight have generally been treated quite separately to longer standing concerns about young people (particularly, young women) and eating disorders. The few papers that have addressed this connection directly have focused on how practices motivated by the obesity discourse have had damaging consequences for the ways young women have come to understand and act on their bodies. The re…

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