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ERIC Number: EJ1216667
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1357-3322
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And if You Can't Hear Us?: Students as Customers of neo-HPE
Sperka, Leigh; Enright, Eimear
Sport, Education and Society, v24 n6 p570-583 2019
The enactment of neoliberal ideologies in education, in particular the extension of free-market logics, has the potential to reposition students and affect if and how their voices are elicited and responded to. There is, however, a dearth of research that seeks to understand how students are experiencing neoliberal influences on their education. Given the various and far-reaching effects of neoliberalisation on education, one specific neoliberal practice, namely the outsourcing of curriculum work to external providers within a singular curricular subject, was selected to be explored. In this paper we present an analysis and theorisation of students' positioning in, and perspectives of, outsourced health and physical education (HPE) in one secondary school. We utilise Bernstein's sociology of pedagogic voice to assist in our analysis. Data were generated at an independent, co-educational secondary school in Australia through focus groups with 25 Year 8 students, interviews with school staff, and observations of externally provided lessons. Our analysis revealed significant pedagogical and ethical issues relating to teaching and learning in externally provided HPE classes. We argue that more empirical research and better theorisation around students' experiences in, and opinions of, neo-HPE is necessary in order to protect the educative and socially just intent of the subject.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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