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Burrows, Lisette; McCormack, Jaleh – European Physical Education Review, 2011
This article draws on ethnographic work undertaken with 21 students and several members of staff at an elite girls' school in New Zealand to investigate the relation between school culture, pedagogical practices and discourses of physical education and school sport. It explores what and who contours the participation of these young women in sport,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Womens Athletics, School Culture, Females
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Stroobant, Emma; Jones, Alison – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
"School refuser" is an always-already negative child identity. The term is used to categorize children or adolescents who appear to dislike and fear school (or aspects of school) and persistently refuse to attend or attend very unwillingly. Given that school attendance is generally considered a necessary social good, regular and anxious…
Descriptors: Attendance, Separation Anxiety, School Phobia, Foreign Countries