Using discursive strategies, playing policy games and shaping the future of physical education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12572162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Swabey (0000-0001-6749-9158, University of Tasmania), Dawn Penney (0000-0002-2000-8953, University of Waikato, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-87 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sport Education and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-3322 • E-ISSN: 1470-1243 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13573322.2011.531962 |
| OpenAlex | W2160670957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper presents a critical analysis of the representation of physical education (PE) in the 1992 Senate inquiry into ‘Physical and Sport Education’ in Australia. Analysis focuses specifically upon how and why a new professional discourse, fundamental motor skills (FMS), gained a privileged position in the inquiry, the inquiry report and in subsequent PE policy and practice across Australia. This paper examines the complex policy processes and power-relations underpinning the progressive legitimisation of the FMS discourse, and identifies subtleties and variations in the expression of the discourse. Attention is drawn to the strategic appropriation of established professional discourses and utilisation of crisis discourses in establishing and gaining support for the FMS discourse. The analysis reaffirms policy arenas as sites of contestation but highlights that they are simultaneously sites of possibility for PE professionals who are prepared and able to use discursive resources in strategic ways. The contemporary relevance of the discourses privileged in 1992 and lessons to be learned from events surrounding the Senate inquiry are discussed
Appropriation · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Ideology · Pedagogy · Physical education · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Relevance (law · Representation (politics · Sociology · Underpinning · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport · Law · Physical Education and Pedagogy
Class Strategies and the Education Market
Politics, Policy and Practice in Physical Education
Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals)
The emergent structure of feeling
Policy networks in recalibrated political terrain
Defining a Subject
Education policy, power relations and teachers’ work
Realising Policy
What Is Policy? Texts, Trajectories and Toolboxes
Policy Trajectories
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2017 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |