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Running: A Way to Increase Body Awareness in Secondary School Physical Education
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Bergentoft, Heléne – European Physical Education Review, 2020
Research suggests that young people's understanding of how their bodies move in space and time is deteriorating. The aim of this study was to examine how students learn to analyse sensations and feelings while running. In total, 94 students aged 16-19 years and seven physical education (PE) teachers from two different secondary schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Human Body, Self Concept
Unspoken: Exploring the Constitution of Masculinities in Swedish Physical Education Classes through Body Movements
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Joy, Phillip; Larsson, Håkan – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: Masculinities are fluid and socially constructed. Physical education is one means by which masculinities are constituted. Some masculinities may be limited through content, activities, and pedagogy of physical education that shape the way students come to know gender. The purpose of this study was to explore how movements contribute to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masculinity, Human Body, Physical Education
Embodiment in Physics Learning: A Social-Semiotic Look
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Euler, Elias; Rådahl, Elmer; Gregorcic, Bor – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
In this paper, we present a case study of a pair of students as they use nondisciplinary communicative practices to mechanistically reason about binary star dynamics. To do so, we first review and bring together the theoretical perspectives of social semiotics and embodied cognition, therein developing a new methodological approach for analyzing…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Logical Thinking, Semiotics
Tactile Signing with One-Handed Perception
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Mesch, Johanna – Sign Language Studies, 2013
Tactile signing among persons with deaf-blindness is not homogenous; rather, like other forms of language, it exhibits variation, especially in turn taking. Early analyses of tactile Swedish Sign Language, tactile Norwegian Sign Language, and tactile French Sign Language focused on tactile communication with four hands, in which partially blind or…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deaf Blind, Tactual Perception, Foreign Countries
Knowing and Teaching Kinaesthetic Experience in Skateboarding: An Example of Sensory Emplacement
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Bäckström, Åsa – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
The body has become a vital research object in several disciplines in recent years. Indeed, in the social sciences and humanities, a corporeal turn in which embodiment has become a key concept related to learning and socialisation is discussed. This cross-disciplinary paper addresses the epistemological question of how we know what we know and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Motion, Human Body
Moving (in) the Heterosexual Matrix. On Heteronormativity in Secondary School Physical Education
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Larsson, Hakan; Redelius, Karin; Fagrell, Birgitta – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Studies on heteronormativity in PE either appear to have explored the experiences of and conditions for non-heterosexual students, or adopt a retrospective point of view. Further, the relation between heteronormativity and movement and how movement activities embody social norms and values related to gender and sexuality has not been…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries