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Young People, Physical Activity And Transitions, Jan Wright, Judith Laverty
Young People, Physical Activity And Transitions, Jan Wright, Judith Laverty
Jan Wright
In the literature on young people’s health and its relation to participation in physical activity, there are recurring narratives that lament the decline in participation during the senior years of schooling and beyond (e.g. Sallis, Prochaska and Taylor 2000). This apparent decline has been interpreted as a significant problem and one that must be addressed by strategies to engage young people in more physical activity; most of which target young people with a view to changing their attitudes and behaviours (Gyurcsik, Bray and Brittain 2004; Leslie, Fotheringham, Owen and Bauman 2001). This concern about young people’s participation in physical activity …
Anxieties And Aspirations: The Making Of Active, Informed Citizens, Doune Macdonald, Jan Wright, R. Abbott
Anxieties And Aspirations: The Making Of Active, Informed Citizens, Doune Macdonald, Jan Wright, R. Abbott
Jan Wright
In writing The Code of Health and Longevity in 1818, Sir John Sinclair hoped that with the provision: of the facts and observations, which are most essential for the preservation of health, .... that it will now be in the power of every considerable person, to ascertain what rules are suited to his particular situation, and to adopt those which are likely to be most efficacious. (Sinclair 1818: 13) Motivating Sir John’s tome nearly two hundred years ago was his concern that ‘people seldom attend to their health till it be too late’ (p.12) and that ‘the attainment of longevity, …
What Does A ‘Sociocultural Perspective’ Mean In Health And Physical Education?, Kenneth P. Cliff, Jan Wright, D. Clarke
What Does A ‘Sociocultural Perspective’ Mean In Health And Physical Education?, Kenneth P. Cliff, Jan Wright, D. Clarke
Jan Wright
Chapter Intention: • To explore the discourse of ‘sociocultural perspective’ and its representations in Health and Physical Education curriculum; • To explore sociocultural perspective alongside the emphasis of critical pedagogies and critical inquiry; • To consider possibilities and limitations to embedding a ‘sociocultural perspective’ in teaching practices.
Analysing Sportsmedia Texts: Developing Resistant Reading Positions, Jan Wright
Analysing Sportsmedia Texts: Developing Resistant Reading Positions, Jan Wright
Jan Wright
[Extract] The American educator Darryl Siedentop includes in his definition of a physically educated person the capacity to be 'involved critically in the sport, fitness and leisure cultures of their nations' (in Tinning 2002: 338). David Kirk uses the term physical culture to refer to the meanings, values and social practices concerned with the maintenance, representation and regulation of the body through institutionalised forms of physical activity such as sport, physical recreation, and exercise (Kirk 1997). He argues that in the process of their engagements with physical culture, young people do not merely 'participate' in physical activities, they are also …
Critical Inquiry And Problem-Solving In Physical Education, Jan Wright
Critical Inquiry And Problem-Solving In Physical Education, Jan Wright
Jan Wright
[Extract] Whether they agree that we are now in a period of postmodernity, late modernity or high modernity (Kirk 1997), social commentators do agree that we live in times characterised by profound social and cultural changes which are recognisable globally but reach into the everyday lives of individual. The nature of these changes is in large part attributed to enormous advances in technology which have allowed for the rapid processing and transmission of information within and across countries and cultures. On one hand, the greater accessibility of information from a larger range of sources has exposed different points of view …
Social Class, Femininity And School Sport, Jan Wright, Gabrielle O'Flynn
Social Class, Femininity And School Sport, Jan Wright, Gabrielle O'Flynn
Jan Wright
This paper examines the relationship between the discursive and material practices associated with school sport and physical education and the formation of particular classed and gendered subjectivities; and how these, in turn, impact on young women’s potential life chances. In so doing, the paper will attempt to go beyond an understanding of ‘subjectivity’ as formed in relation to cultural and institutional discourses, to engage with the notion of ability or ‘embodied capacity’ as a form of physical capital (Shilling 1993) which has particular salience in a consumerist ‘performance’ motivated market economy and which is differentially made available in schools. This …
Disciplining The Body: Power, Knowledge And Subjectivity In A Physical Education Lesson, Jan Wright
Disciplining The Body: Power, Knowledge And Subjectivity In A Physical Education Lesson, Jan Wright
Jan Wright
Extract: In recent years there has been a move in feminist and social theory towards an interest tin the body as a social and cultural site. The dominant discourses in Western society have traditionally, emphasized the body as a physical and biological given, to be understood like other 'natural' phenomena, through empirical investigation. Philosophical, feminist and poststructuralist discussions around the body (Foucault 1979, Foucault 1981, Bartky 1988, Bordo 1990, Grosz 1994) have demonstrated how our knowledge of the body and the body itself is constituted in specific cultural and historical circumstances and in the context of particular relations of power. …