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Direct linkEvans, John – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: This paper represents the Discussant's response to the variety of papers presented to the "AIESEP-ICSEMIS" symposium entitled: "School Physical Education Curricula for Future Generations: Global Patterns? Global Lessons? Glasgow, Glasgow 19-24 July 2012." Purpose: With reference to the symposium papers, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Physical Education, Conferences (Gatherings)
Evans, John – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: This paper offers critical commentary on the culture of "performativity" that has dominated educational discourse over the last 20 years, affecting the way in which researchers, teachers, pupils and parents think and act toward Physical Education and sport (PESP) in schools. It is a culture that, in the UK, is likely to intensify in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Performance, Culture, Commercialization
Evans, John; Penney, Dawn – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: This paper develops an analysis of how "educability" and "physical ability" are socially configured through the practices of physical education (PE) in schools. We pursue this interest as part of a broader project, shared by many in the wider community of social science researchers in PE, to better understand how "knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Curriculum, Physical Education, Social Control
Evans, John; Davies, Brian – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: At the heart of this polemic lies the view that contemporary research in PE and Health (PEH) has largely overlooked one of the key determinants of social behaviour, social class and its expression in and outside schools; an omission that has quite serious consequences for how we (researchers and teachers) think about and conceptualise…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Class, Educational Research, Health Promotion
