File(s) under permanent embargo
Reason: This item is currently closed access.
Neoliberalism and the future for a socio-educative physical education
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-04, 13:50 authored by John EvansBackground: This paper represents the Discussant’s response to the variety of papers
presented to the AIESEP-ICSEMIS symposium entitled: School Physical Education
Curricula for Future Generations: Global Patterns? Global Lessons? Glasgow,
Glasgow 19–24 July 2012.
Purpose: With reference to the symposium papers, this paper identifies some of the key
features of neoliberalism and reflects on the very many challenges they present to
Physical Education (PE) in schools and Initial Teacher Education in many countries
across the globe.
Findings: The paper highlights the overbearing attention given in government policies
in many countries to sport and performance-based curriculum and the reductive
distortions it effects in teachers’ and pupils’ thinking and their pedagogical transactions.
Conclusions: Overgeneralised observations with regard to the practices described in the
papers of this edition are unhelpful, while crystal ball gazing, questionable, even in our
turbulent, socio-economic circumstances and proffering ‘one-size-fits-all solution’ to
them across the globe, might be regarded as particular anathemas. Notwithstanding,
this paper suggests that together the perspectives represented in this journal invite
serious discussion as to the potential future, and future potential, of PE wherever it
occurs. The final analyses call for the protection and celebration of Education in PE
and pursuit of culturally sensitive socio-educative principles, eschewing
neoliberalism’s reductive ideals.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT PEDAGOGYVolume
19Issue
5Pages
545 - 558 (14)Citation
EVANS, J, 2014. Neoliberalism and the future for a socio-educative physical education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 19 (5), pp. 545 - 558.Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge) © Association for Physical EducationVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2014Notes
Closed accessISSN
1740-8989Publisher version
Language
- en