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Fitzpatrick, Katie – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
This article explores how school physical education (PE) can both reinforce stereotyped notions of the brown body as inherently physical while also allowing young people to gain educational success. Drawing on a critical ethnographic study of Maori and Pasifika (Pacific Island) youth in PE in New Zealand, the article explores how the academic…
Descriptors: Race, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
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Sebbane, M.; Remaoun, M.; Harchaoui, Y.; Abdelkader, A.; Karrou, M. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2009
This study aims to explore the somatotype of Algerian high-school pupils of 16-19 years old. Various works in the field of sport have shown that athletic performance is a result of multiple factors that could be classified under psychological, physiological and physical. This last factor relates to the physical aspects. It gathers anthropometric…
Descriptors: High School Students, Selection, Athletics, Physical Characteristics
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Azzarito, Laura; Solmon, Melinda – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
Despite significant theoretical and practical progress over the past 20 years, the social construction of gender and its link to youths' participation in physical activity in school contexts remain critical issues that call for further socioeducational scrutiny. In this study, researchers investigated the ways students' embodiment of discursive…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Student Attitudes, Gender Differences
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Jermolajew, Anna M.; Newhouse, C. Paul – Australian Educational Computing, 2003
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in the provision of computing facilities in schools for student use. However, there is concern that the development of these facilities has often given little regard to the ergonomics of the design for use by children, particularly adolescents. This paper reports on a study that investigated the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Computers, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students