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Berkshire, M., Mason, J. and Hardwicke, J. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1152-0920,
2024.
The continuity of PE-as-sport: exploring secondary school students’ accounts of the meaning and purpose of PE in England.
European Physical Education Review.
ISSN 1356-336X
Abstract
Physical education (PE) has long been contested as various discourses compete and conflict on what the subject is and what its purpose ought to be. Within these discussions, less attention has been placed on student accounts of the purpose of compulsory secondary school PE in England, nor on the meanings constructed based on experiences of the subject. Therefore, this study sought to build on and extend the insights in this area from the student perspective. Drawing on data generated through six focus groups with 27 students, aged between 11 and 14, we show the obdurate nature of dominant sport discourses within PE in England. The meaning and purpose of PE was largely constructed as sport and positive experiences of PE came mostly from students who enjoyed and participated in sport. PE-as-sport was reported to broadly, and sometimes negatively, influence student experiences based on ability, gender and through lack of choice and autonomy within the subject. We do not conclude with clear ‘practical’ recommendations for change in practice, but instead suggest a continued focus on critically questioning the role of sport in PE amongst practitioners and researchers is necessary.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | European Physical Education Review | ||||||
| Creators: | Berkshire, M., Mason, J. and Hardwicke, J. | ||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
| Date: | 30 May 2024 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1356-336X | ||||||
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| Rights: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 03 May 2024 13:09 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2024 09:32 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51383 |
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