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Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals) - The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain (Paperback)
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Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals) - The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1992, David Kirk's book analyses the public
debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and
purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this
debate in a historical context, specifically in the period
following the end of the Second World War, it attempts to
illustrate how the meaning of school physical education and its
aims, content and pedagogy were contested by a number of vying
groups. It stresses the influence of the culture of postwar social
reconstruction in shaping these groups' ideas about physical
education. Through this analysis, the book attempts to explain how
physical education has been socially constructed during the postwar
years and, more specifically, to suggest how the subject came to be
used as a symbol of subversive, left wing values in the campaign
leading to the 1987 election. In more general terms, the book
provides a case study of the social construction of school
knowledge. The book takes an original approach to the question of
curriculum change in physical education, building on increasing
interest in historical research in the field of curriculum studies.
It adopts a social constructionist perspective, arguing that change
occurs through the active involvement of competing groups in
struggles over limited material and ideological (discursive)
resources. It also draws on contemporary developments in social and
cultural theory, particularly the concepts of discourse and
ideological hegemony, to explain how the meaning of physical
education has been constructed, and how particular definitions of
the subject have become orthodoxes. The book presents new
historical evidence from a period which had previously been
neglected by researchers, despite the fact that 1945 marked a
watershed in the development of the understanding and teaching of
physical education in schools.
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