Despite good intentions : The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts
(2024) In European Physical Education Review- Abstract
- This paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine how health and physical education (HPE) curricula from Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand may influence possibilities for the enactment of social justice in schools. The findings highlight the presence of social justice intentions across the five curricula as related to embodied movement experiences, social cohesion, and activism. That said, the findings simultaneously suggest that the language used to orient teaching towards social justice objectives is often elusive. In this paper, we contend that despite the presence of social justice intentions in these five HPE curricula, the articulation and function of the language within the curriculum documents do not... (More)
- This paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine how health and physical education (HPE) curricula from Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand may influence possibilities for the enactment of social justice in schools. The findings highlight the presence of social justice intentions across the five curricula as related to embodied movement experiences, social cohesion, and activism. That said, the findings simultaneously suggest that the language used to orient teaching towards social justice objectives is often elusive. In this paper, we contend that despite the presence of social justice intentions in these five HPE curricula, the articulation and function of the language within the curriculum documents do not necessarily support the enactment of this in practice. To conclude, we therefore suggest that more work is needed to ensure that curricula and other supporting artefacts and resources can better support both teachers’ practice and students’ learning in raising awareness of, and addressing, social justice outcomes in HPE. (Less)
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- Gerdin, Göran ; Lundin, Katarina LU ; Philpot, Rod ; Berg, Ellen ; Mooney, Amanda ; Kitching, Ansie ; Alfrey, Laura ; Schenker, Katarina and Linnér, Susanne
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- Physical education, health, curriculum, social justice, discourse, language
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- European Physical Education Review
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- 20 pages
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- 10.1177/1356336X241249820
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abstract = {{This paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine how health and physical education (HPE) curricula from Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand may influence possibilities for the enactment of social justice in schools. The findings highlight the presence of social justice intentions across the five curricula as related to embodied movement experiences, social cohesion, and activism. That said, the findings simultaneously suggest that the language used to orient teaching towards social justice objectives is often elusive. In this paper, we contend that despite the presence of social justice intentions in these five HPE curricula, the articulation and function of the language within the curriculum documents do not necessarily support the enactment of this in practice. To conclude, we therefore suggest that more work is needed to ensure that curricula and other supporting artefacts and resources can better support both teachers’ practice and students’ learning in raising awareness of, and addressing, social justice outcomes in HPE.}},
author = {{Gerdin, Göran and Lundin, Katarina and Philpot, Rod and Berg, Ellen and Mooney, Amanda and Kitching, Ansie and Alfrey, Laura and Schenker, Katarina and Linnér, Susanne}},
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language = {{eng}},
month = {{05}},
series = {{European Physical Education Review}},
title = {{Despite good intentions : The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts}},
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doi = {{10.1177/1356336X241249820}},
year = {{2024}},
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