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The politics of pedagogy: making a National Curriculum Physical Education1
John Evans,Dawn Penney +1 more
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In this article, the authors present the activities of the Working Group formed in July 1990 by central Government in the UK to "advise" on a National Curriculum Physical Education (NCPE) for state schools in England and Wales.Abstract:
This paper documents the activities of the Working Group formed in July 1990 by central Government in the UK to ‘advise’ on a National Curriculum Physical Education (NCPE) for state schools in England and Wales. The analysis concentrates on the interactions between group members and the Secretary of State for Education and the Minister for Sport, a process in which there was a struggle for control of what Bernstein refers to as the ‘pedagogic device’ (Bernstein 1990) ‐ the rules governing the form and content of the curriculum of PE and concomitantly how the body should be schooled. The data point to a complex dialectic between the discourses of cultural restoration and progressivism, and reveal how the latter was both circumscribed and ‘regulated’ by sometimes subtle, at other times quite brutal discursive strategies. Running through the discussion are issues relating to the nature of power, authority and control in the policy‐making process. 1. This paper draws on data from an Economic and Soci...read more
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Creating Difference: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Conservatism and the Politics of Educational Reform
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how different interests with different educational and social visions compete for dominion in the social field of power surrounding educational policy and practice, and document some of the complexities and imbalances in this fiel do f power.
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The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same: Factors Influencing Teachers' Interpretations and Delivery of National Curriculum Physical Education
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe teachers' differing interpretations of National Curriculum Physical Education (NCPE) and identify factors which influenced these interpretations, including occupational socialization theory and technological, ecological, and cultural perspectives on curriculum change identified by Sparkes.
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Physical Education: What Future(s)?
Dawn Penney,Tim Chandler +1 more
TL;DR: The current revision of the National Curriculum for Physical Education in England and Wales is used as a basis from which to present a case for a distinctly new orientation to be reflected in the design of PE curricula, units of work and lessons.
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Physical Culture, Physical Education and Relational Analysis
TL;DR: Kirk as discussed by the authors argues for the recovery of a notion of physical culture that can serve the purposes of relational analysis in social research, through a brief etymology of the term, and through an historical overview of shifts in physical culture during the twentieth century.
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The changing status of school sport and physical education: explaining policy change
Barrie Houlihan,Mick Green +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the changing political salience of school sport and physical education over the last 15 years and explore the significance of four possible sources of policy change: changing values, beliefs and ideas; interest group lobbying; changes in organizational infrastructure and patterns of resource dependency; the impact of key individuals.
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The structuring of pedagogic discourse
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an ongoing effort to understand the rules, practices, agencies and agents which shape and change the social construction of pedagogic discourse, and re-examine the findings of the author's earlier work.
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What is policy? texts, trajectories and toolboxes
TL;DR: In this article, what is policy? TEXTS, TRAJECTORIES, and TOOLBOXes, and what is policy are discussed. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 10-17.