A Feminist Poststructuralist View on Student Bodies in Physical Education: Sites of Compliance, Resistance, and Transformation

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Azzarito ◽  
Melinda A. Solmon
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
The Body ◽  
School Students ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Physical Education Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Activity Choices ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist

The study of the social construction of the body has become crucial to contemporary academic discourses in education and physical education. Employing feminist poststructuralist theory and a qualitative ethnographic design, this study investigated how high school students identified themselves with images of bodies drawn from fitness and sports magazines, and how their body narratives were linked to their participation in physical education. Students’ body narratives reflected notions of comfortable, bad, and borderland bodies that influenced students’ physical activity choices and engagement in physical education. Girls’ narratives of their physicality were found to be significantly less comfortable than boys’. Critical pedagogy to destabilize gendered dominant discourses of mass media body culture and to develop positive, meaningful, and empowering student physicality is discussed.

A Poststructural Analysis of High School Students’ Gender and Racialized Bodily Meanings

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Azzarito ◽  
Melinda A. Solmon
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
The Body ◽  
School Students ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Poststructural Analysis

Recently, national studies have reported on young people’s low level of participation in physical activity. Because the effect of gender and racial differences among youth participating in physical activity have not been sufficiently addressed, examining the social construction of the body in physical education can provide valuable insights. This study uses poststructuralism as a lens to investigate how students’ construction of meanings around the body varied by gender and race, and how bodily meanings related to students’ participation in physical education classes. The participants were 528 students from public high schools. An instrument was used to assess students’ racial and gendered construction of bodily meanings around specific discursive constructs. Results indicated that students’ meanings differ by race and gender, especially in regard to size, power, muscularity, and appearance. These findings suggest that bodily meanings were influential in students’ self-reported levels of participation in physical education classes.

scholarly journals Oficinas temáticas na educação física escolar

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Luciana Santos Collier
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
The Body ◽  
School Students ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Body Practices

INTRODUÇÃO: A Educação Física é a disciplina do currículo escolar que aborda a cultura corporal, com a finalidade de introduzir e integrar o estudante a essa esfera do conhecimento, formando o cidadão que vai produzir, reproduzir e transformar essa cultura. Possibilitar experiências diversificadas no âmbito das práticas corporais e fortalecer a participação dos estudantes nas aulas são fatores fundamentais no desenvolvimento da disciplina. OBJETIVO: Este relato que tem como objetivo apresentar e discutir a proposta de oficinas temáticas nas aulas de Educação Física escolar, a partir das opiniões de estudantes do ensino fundamental 2 e médio de uma escola pública federal no município de Niterói (RJ). MÉTODOS: Se caracteriza como uma pesquisa qualitativa crítica que utilizou como registro, as respostas dadas por aproximadamente 160 estudantes nas avaliações da disciplina, que, além de nortear a tomada de decisão para a realização das atividades, constituiu o corpo da investigação que ora apresentamos. RESULTADOS: Percebemos que as oficinas temáticas possibilitaram a ampliação dos conhecimentos e vivências relacionados à cultura corporal e uma maior maturidade na relação dos estudantes com a disciplina, com os colegas das diferentes turmas e com a professora. CONCLUSÃO: Foi perceptível a modificação da percepção dos estudantes sobre a Educação Física escolar, bem como ampliação da consciência crítica, colaborando com desenvolvimento da cidadania.ABSTRACT. Thematic workshops in school physical education.BACKGROUND: Physical Education is the discipline of the school curriculum that addresses body culture, with the purpose of introducing and integrating the student into this sphere of knowledge, forming the citizen who will produce, reproduce and transform this culture. Enabling diverse experiences within the scope of body practices and strengthening the participation of students in classes are fundamental factors in the development of the discipline. OBJECTIVE: This report aims to present and discuss the proposal for thematic workshops in school Physical Education classes, based on the opinions of elementary and high school students from a federal public school in the city of Niterói (RJ, Brazil). METHODS: The investigation is characterized as a qualitative critical research that used as a record, the answers given by approximately 160 students in the evaluations of the discipline, which, in addition to guiding the decision making for the performance of the activities, constituted the body of the investigation that we present here. RESULTS: We realized that thematic workshops enabled the expansion of knowledge and experiences related to body culture and greater maturity in the relationship of students with the discipline, with colleagues in different classes and with the teacher. CONCLUSION: It was noticeable that students’ perception of school Physical Education changed, as well as the expansion of critical awareness, collaborating with the development of citizenship.

Reliability and Validity Evidence for the Social Goal Scale-Physical Education (SGS-PE) in High School Settings

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianmin Guan ◽  
Ron E. McBride ◽  
Ping Xiang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Social Goal ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Settings ◽  
The Social

Two types of social goals associated with students’ academic performance have received attention from researchers. One is the social responsibility goal, and the other is the social relationship goal. While several scales have been validated for measuring social relationship and social responsibility goals in academic settings, few studies have applied these social goal scales to high school students in physical education settings. The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability, validity, and generalizability of the scores produced by the Social Goal Scale-Physical Education (SGS-PE) in high school settings. Participants were 544 students from two high schools in the southern United States. Reliability analyses, principal components factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and multistep invariance analysis across two school samples revealed that the SGS-PE produced reliable and valid scores when used to assess students’ social goal levels in high school physical education settings.

scholarly journals O CORPO E O CONTROLE DA NATUREZA NA CONTEMPORÂNEIDADE: POSSÍVEIS IMPLICAÇÕES PARA A FORMAÇÃO DOCENTE EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Guenther Carlos Feitosa De Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

The body becomes the object of intense study and investigations with the modernity. But he was not the object of indifference. Even with the denial of the bodily pleasures that the average age undertook, the body was object of attention and normalization, being understood in a double meaning, the sacred and the profane. The relation body and nature gains different contours with the birth of modern science, giving rise to new dualities, between matter and spirit or psyche. Such dualities have produced enduring and persistent meanings in bodily practices and body conceptions. Physical Education as an area of knowledge and intervention that has in the body culture its privileged object, inherits and re-signifies such conceptions, reproducing or breaking with dualistic practices and understandings of the relation body and nature. This essay seeks to discuss the relationships between body and nature as well as its implications for the formation of the academic and professional field of Physical Education. We seek to reflect on the social-historical constructions on the body, especially those centered on biological aspects. We understand that the relationship body nature is an important point of understanding the uniqueness and continuities on the conceptions of body. In this way we undertake a qualitative, historical and sociological analysis centered on authors who elucidate these questions, such as: Corbin, Courtine e Vigarello (2010), Gélis (2010), Suassuna et al. (2005), Vaz (1999), Csordas (2008) and Le Breton (2003). Based on the elements discussed by the authors, we identify ruptures and continuities in relation to conceptions and practices with the body, remaining a desire for the split between body and spirit/mind.

scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN TIME MANAGEMENT AND STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Jusuf Blegur ◽  
M. Rambu P. Wasak ◽  
Mieke Souisa
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
School Year ◽  
Physical Education Students ◽  
Relationship Of

This research was conducted with an aim to examine the relationship of time management with the physical education learning outcomes in high-school students of both genders, aged 17.60±0.89 (Mean±SD). The data of Time management from respondents were taken using the Time Management Questionnaire (Alay & Kocak, 2002). Data on learning outcomes were taken from the learning value of Physical Education students in the first semester of the school year 2018/2019. The results of the descriptive test indicates that the time management of students was classified as fair (62.71%) and their learning outcomes were also good (83.05%), while the results of the Pearson test showed a significant relationship between time management with physical education learning outcomes (0.314) Thus, educators can train students to develop time management skills by arranging plans before doing, determining and setting work priorities, being responsible for work time and priorities, and avoiding unfavorable activities.

scholarly journals Guía de ejercicios para mejorar la coordinación motriz de los estudiantes de bachillerato de la Unidad Educativa Atahualpa

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Jonathan Eudaldo Valencia Román ◽  
Rafael Tejeda Díaz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
The Body ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dynamic Coordination ◽  
Motor Difficulties

El artículo investigativo se centra en la importancia de la coordinación motriz en los estudiantes de bachillerato de la Unidad Educativa “Atahualpa”, debido a que es parte esencial en la ejecución de acciones locomotoras y perceptivas necesarias para la práctica deportiva y el desempeño cognitivo, con este enfoque se propuso como objetivo determinar una guía de ejercicios para mejorar la coordinación motriz de los estudiantes y así incentivarlos a participar activamente de la clase de educación física. En la investigación participaron 59 estudiantes y se aplicó un test de coordinación motriz TGMD (Tarea de desarrollo de la motricidad gruesa) y KTK (coordinación motora) en forma individual de manera consecutiva, lo que demostró en el análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo las dificultades motrices de los alumnos, y con la finalidad de contrarrestar esta realidad se planteó ejercicios relacionados a la coordinación dinámica general (desplazamientos, saltos, movimientos naturales, actividades rítmicas) y la coordinación óculo-segmentaria (lanzamientos, golpes, formas de atrapar, saltos con obstáculos), para que el docente de educación física los ejecute en la clase y así los estudiantes adquieran las competencias motrices y físicas necesarias para su correcta movilidad y alcancen los objetivos del plan curricular, se concluyó que la capacidad motriz influye en el desarrollo de las áreas cognitivas y del lenguaje y que la conexión entre el cerebro y el cuerpo son importantes para el adecuado desempeño académico e inclusive para la salud. PALABRAS CLAVES: acciones locomotoras; desempeño cognitivo; ejercicios de coordinación; habilidades motrices. EXERCISE GUIDE TO IMPROVE MOTOR COORDINATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS OF THE ATAHUALPA EDUCATIONAL UNIT ABSTRACT The research article focuses on the importance of motor coordination in the high school students of the Educational Unit "Atahualpa", because it is an essential part in the execution of locomotive and perceptive actions necessary for sports practice and cognitive performance, with the objective of this approach was to determine an exercise guide to improve the motor coordination of the students and thus encourage them to actively participate in the physical education class. 59 students participated in the research and a motor coordination test TGMD (Gross Motor Development Task) and KTK (motor coordination) were individually applied consecutively, which demonstrated in the qualitative and quantitative analysis the motor difficulties of the students, and in order to counter this reality, exercises related to general dynamic coordination (movements, jumps, natural movements, rhythmic activities) and oculo-segmental coordination (throws, blows, ways to catch, jumps with obstacles) were proposed, so that the physical education teacher executes them in class and thus the students acquire the motor and physical competences necessary for their correct mobility and achieve the objectives of the curriculum, it was concluded that motor capacity influences the development of cognitive areas and language and that the connection between the brain and the body are important for the adequacy or academic performance and even for health. KEYWORDS: locomotive actions; cognitive performance; coordination exercises; motor skills.

scholarly journals Criteria for evaluation of educational achievements of primary school students with positional disorders in physical education lessons

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
Valentyn Lukiianchuk
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
The Body ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
School Students ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pathology ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation ◽  
Postural Disorders

The article substantiates the need to assess the success of junior high school students in physical education classes. The system of pedagogical control of coordination abilities of junior schoolchildren with postural disorders is presented, which objectively reflects the health effectiveness of physical education lessons in grades 1-4 and determines the quality of the process of motor training of students with musculoskeletal pathology. Given that coordination abilities and posture are interrelated, because since the mechanism of their development involves the same morphofunctional and psychophysiological indicators of the body, and informative strength and flexibility in forming a stereotype of posture, criteria for assessing the development of coordination skills, and as well as control tests and standards for assessing the strength of the muscular corset and flexibility of the spine of primary school children with posture defects. The choice of motor tests is related to the focus of exercise on the development of coordination skills, and also takes into account the informativeness of the strength of the muscular corset and the mobility of the spine. Objective criteria for assessing the academic achievements of students with postural disorders in physical education classes: in the motivational, cognitive and activity spheres are determined. There are three levels of academic achievement of student youth: low, medium, high. In an effort to achieve complete certainty in the establishment of a particular level, qualitative characteristics have been developed that allow to objectively assess the health effects of physical education lessons for students with posture defects.

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