'Can i do it in my pyjamas?' negotiating a physical education curriculum with teenage girls

European Physical Education Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-222

  Enright, Eimear ^a   O'Sullivan, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

curriculum negotiation; participatory action research; physical education; student activists; students as researchers

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650423623     PISSN: 1356336X     EISSN: 17412749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356336X10382967     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Azarrito L., Ennis C. (2003) A sense of connection: toward social constructivist physical education. Sport Education and Society 8(2): 179-98.
2. Bain L. (1995) Mindfulness and subjective knowledge. Quest 47: 238-53.
3. Boomer G. (1992) Negotiating the curriculum. In: Boomer G, Lester N, Onore C, and Cook J (eds) Negotiating the Curriculum: Educating for the 21st Century. London: Falmer Press.
4. Brooker R., Macdonald D. (1999) Did we hear you? Issues of student voice in curriculum innovation. Journal of Curriculum Studies 31(1): 83-97.
5. Christensen P., Prout A. (2002) Working with ethical symmetry in social research with children. Childhood 9(4): 477-97.
6. Connelly M., Clandinin J. (1990) Stories of experience and narrative inquiry. Educational Researcher 14(5): 2-14.
7. Cook J. (1992) Negotiating the curriculum: programming for learning. In: Boomer G, Lester N, Onore C, and Cook J (eds) Negotiating the Curriculum: Educating for the 21st Century. London: Falmer Press.
8. Cothran DJ, Ennis CD (1999) Alone in a crowd: meeting students' needs for relevance and connection in urban high school physical education. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 18: 234-47.
9. Darling-Hammond L. (1997) The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
10. Department of Education and Science (DES) and National Council of Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) (2000) Leaving Certificate Applied: Leisure and Recreation Syllabus. Dublin: The Stationary Office.
11. Department of Education and Science (DES) and National Council of Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) (2003) Junior Cycle Physical Education Syllabus. Dublin: The Stationary Office.
12. Dyson B. (2006) Students' perspectives of physical education. In: Kirk D, Macdonald D, and O'Sullivan M (eds) The Handbook of Physical Education. London: SAGE.
13. Eccles JS, Midgley C., Wigfield A., Miller-Buchanan C., Reuman D., Flanagan C., and Mac Iver D. (1993) The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families. American Psychologist 48(2): 90-101.
14. Enright E., O'Sullivan M. (in press)'Producing different knowledge and producing knowledge differently': rethinking physical education research and practice through participatory methods. Sport, Education and Society.
15. Enright E., O'Sullivan M. (2010) Carving a new order of experience with young people in physical education: Participatory Action Research as a pedagogy of possibility. In: O'Sullivan M, MacPhail A (eds) Young People's Voices in Physical Education and Youth Sport. London: Routledge.
16. Ennis CD (1999) Creating a culturally relevant curriculum for disengaged girls. Sport Education and Society 4(1): 31-49.
17. Ennis CD (2000) Canaries in the coal mine: responding to disengaged students using theme-based curricula. Quest 52: 119-30.
18. Ennis CD, Cothran DJ, Davidson KS, Loftus SJ, Owens L., Swanson L., and Hopsicker P. (1997) Implementing a curriculum within a context of fear and disengagement. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 17(1): 52-71.
19. Erickson F., Shultz J. (1992) Students' experiences of the curriculum. In: Jackson PW (ed.) Handbook of Research on Curriculum. New York: Macmillan, 465-85.
20. Evans J., Davies B. (2004) Sociology, the body and health in a risk society. In: Evans J, Davies B, and Wright J (eds) Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health. London: Routledge, 35-51.
21. Fine M. (2008) An epilogue, of sorts. In: Cammarota J, Fine M (eds) Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. Abingdon: Routledge, 213-35.
22. Fine M., Torre ME (2005) Researching and resisting: democratic policy research by and for youth. In: Ginwright S, Noguera P, and Cammarota J (eds) Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change. New York: Routledge, 269-85.
23. Fine M., Roberts R., Torre M., and Upegui D. (2001) Participatory action research behind bars. Critical Psychology: The International Journal of Critical Psychology 2: 145-57.
24. Flick U. (2005). An Introduction to Qualitative Research (2nd edn). London: SAGE.
25. Flintoff A. (2009) Inaugural lecture: What's the difference? The contribution of feminist thought to physical education and school sport, 4 June, Leeds Metropolitan University.
26. Flintoff A., Scraton S. (2001) Stepping into active leisure? Young women's perceptions of active lifestyles and their experiences of school physical education. Sport, Education and Society 6(1): 5-22.
27. Glasby T., Macdonald D. (2004) Negotiation the curriculum: challenging the social relationship in teaching. In Wright J, Macdonald D, and Burrows L (eds) Critical Inquiry and Problem-Solving in Physical Education. London: Routledge.
28. Glesne C. (1999) Becoming Qualitative Researchers: An Introduction. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman.
29. Gordon T. (2006) Girls in education: citizenship, agency and emotions. Gender and Education 18(1): 1-15.
30. Greene M. (1995) Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts and Social Change. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
31. Greenwood DJ, Foote Whyte W., and Harkavy I. (1993) Participatory action research as a process and a goal. Human Relations 46(2): 175-92.
32. Harrison B. (2002) Photographic visions and narrative inquiry. In: Andrews M (guest ed.), Narratives and Counter-Narratives, Special Issue of Narrative Inquiry 12(1): 87-111.
33. Hastie PA (1998) The participation and perception of girls within a unit of sport education. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 17: 157-71.
34. Hastie PA, Sinelnikov OA (2006) Russian students' participation in and perceptions of a season of sport education. European Physical Education Review 12(2): 131-50.
35. Hyde S. (1992) Negotiating mathematics. In: Boomer G, Lester N, Oncore C, and Cook J (eds) Negotiating the Curriculum: Education for the 21st Century. London: Falmer Press.
36. Kincheloe J. (2007) Clarifying the Purpose of engaging students as researchers. In: Thiessen D, Cook-Sather A (eds) International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary Education. Dordrecht: Springer.
37. Kinchin GD, O'Sullivan M. (1999) Making high school physical education meaningful for students. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance 70(5): 40-4.
38. Kirk D. (2004) Towards a critical history of the body, identity and health: corporeal power and school practice. In: Evans J, Davies B, and Wright J (eds) Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health. New York: Routledge, 52-67.
39. Kirk D., Fitzgerald H., Wang J., and Biddle S. (2000) Towards Girl-Friendly Physical Education. The Nike/Youth Sport Trust Girls in Partnership Project, Final Report. Loughborough: Institute of Youth Sport.
40. Kirk D., Tinning R. (1994) Embodied self-identity, healthy lifestyles and school physical education. Sociology of Health and Illness 16(5): 600-25.
41. Linnan L., Lopez M., Moore D., Daniel M., McAlister E., and Wong C. (2001). Power of photovoice: voices for the 'voice-less' in the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd. Paper presented at the 129th Annual Meeting of American Public Health Association Atlanta, GA.
42. Lykes MB (2001) Creative arts and photography in participatory action research in Guatemala. In: Reason P, Bradbury H (eds) Handbook of Action Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 363-71.
43. Madriz M. (2000) Focus groups in feminist research. In Denzin, Lincoln (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd edn). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
44. Martin-Baro I. (1994) Writings for a Liberation Psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
45. National Council of Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) (2009) Leaving certificate applied: a look into the current provision of LCA in schools. URL (consulted Oct. 2010): at www.ncca.ie.
46. Nieuwenhuys O. (2004) Participatory action research in the majority world. In: Fraser S, Lewis V, Ding S, Kellett M, and Robinson S (eds) Doing Research with Children and Young People. London: SAGE.
47. Nilges LM (1998) I thought only fairy tales had supernatural power: a radical feminist analysis of Title IX in physical education. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 17: 172-94.
48. Oliver K. (2001) Images of the body from popular culture: engaging adolescent girls in critical inquiry. Sport, Education and Society 6(2): 143-64.
49. Oliver KL, Lalik R. (2000) Bodily Knowledge: Learning about Equity and Justice with Adolescent Girls. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.
50. Paechter C. (2003) Power, bodies and identity: how different forms of physical education construct varying masculinities and femininities in secondary school. Sex Education 3: 47-59.
51. Reason P. (1998) Three approaches to participative inquiry. In: Denzin NK, Lincoln YS (eds) Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry. London: SAGE, 261-91.
52. Rich E. (2003) The problem with girls: liberal feminism, equal opportunities and gender inequality in physical education. British Journal of Physical Education 34(1): 46-9.
53. Rich E. (2004) Exploring teachers' biographies and perceptions of girls' participation in physical education. European Journal of Physical Education 10(2): 215-40.
54. Rubin H., Rubin I. (1995) Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE.
55. Sandford R., Rich E. (2006) Learners and popular culture. In: Kirk D, Macdonald D, and O'Sullivan M (eds) The Handbook of Physical Education. London: SAGE.
56. Satina B., Solmon MA, Cothran DJ, Loftus SJ, and Stockin-Davidson K. (1998) Patriarchal consciousness: middle school students' and teachers' perspectives of motivational practices. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 3(2): 181-200.
57. Scraton S. (1992) Shaping up to Womanhood: Girls and Physical Education. Buckingham: Open University Press.
58. Shor I. (1992) Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
59. Shor I. (1996) When Students have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. London: University of Chicago Press.
60. Torre ME (2005) Echoes of Brown 50 years later: addressing the opportunity gap. Amnesty International's Human Rights Education: The Fourth R 15(2): 4-8.
61. Wang C., Burris M. (1997) Photovoice: concept, methodology and use for participatory needs assessment. Health Education and Behaviour 24: 369-87.
62. Wright J. (1996) The construction of complementarity in physical education. Gender and Education 8(1): 61-79.