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Setting Policy And Student Agency In Physical Education: Students As Policy Actors, Shaun D. Wilkinson, Dawn Penney
Setting Policy And Student Agency In Physical Education: Students As Policy Actors, Shaun D. Wilkinson, Dawn Penney
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In turning a spotlight on students in physical education, this paper seeks to extend applications of policy enactment theory, and particularly, the policy actor framework. Following the lead of Stephen Ball and colleagues, the research that this paper draws on examined the various dimensions of context shaping policy enactment in different schools. The focus of the research was policy associated with ability grouping, and setting particularly, in physical education. The research involved case study work in three mixed-gender secondary schools in England, with 15 physical education teachers …