Research In Physical Educ.& Sp

Andrew Sparkes

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136363672
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The text aims to provide an in-depth exploration of a range of traditions that are beginning to reshape the nature of research in physical education and the sports sciences. The chapters are all original contributions by leading scholars that bring together new data from a variety of research approaches. Each offers its own specific challenge to the orthodoxy that has dominated the field. A range of traditions are considered by the contributors who provide specific examples from their own work that include phenomenology, ethnography, life histories, discourse analysis, feminist research, curriculum history and action research. These cases are highlight for the reader the basic assumption of each approach, the significance of the understanding they develop, and their potential for the future development of research in physical education and sport. The forms of analysis provided should be of interest to a wider audience, such as students of education and the social sciences. It is aimed at physical education researchers, BEd, MEd, BSc, MSc courses on physical education and sport and teachers of sports science.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Paradigms Debate: An Extended Review and a Celebration of Difference
• Chapter 2. Studying the Lifeworld of Physical Education: A Phenomenological Orientation
• Chapter 3. Describing the Experience of Lesbian Physical Educators: A Phenomenological Study
• Chapter 4. Life Histories and Physical Education Teachers: Exploring the Meanings of Marginality
• Chapter 5. Learning the Language: Discourse Analysis in Physical Education
• Chapter 6. Feminist Research and Physical Education
• Chapter 7. Action Research as Epistemology and Practice: Towards Transformative Educational Practice in Physical Education
• Chapter 8. Curriculum History in Physical Education: A Source of Struggle and a Force for Change
• Chapter 9. A Short Paper About People, Power and Educational Reform. Authority and Representation in Ethnographic Research. Subjectivity, Ideology and Educational Reform: The Case of Physical Education
• Chapter 10. Telling Stories From the Field? A Discussion of an Ethnographic Approach to Researching the Teaching of Physical Education
• Chapter 11. Writing and the Textual Construction of Realities: Some Challenges for Alternative Paradigms Research in Physical Education
• Notes on Contributors
• Index