Fitness testing: How do students make sense of the gender disparities?

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-224

  Domangue, Elizabeth A ^a   Solmon, Melinda A ^a  

^a Harrison School District Two   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Fitness testing; Gender; Physical education; Post structuralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859393761     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.607950     Document Type: Article

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