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Adolescent Girls' Embodied Identities: Exploring Strategies and Barriers to their Success and Survival in Physical Education - Couverture souple

Fisette, Jennifer

 
9783639160833: Adolescent Girls' Embodied Identities: Exploring Strategies and Barriers to their Success and Survival in Physical Education
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3639160835 ISBN 13 : 9783639160833
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Schools are institutions that produce and reproduce the meanings society has given to the construction of the body. Adolescent girls try to navigate the physical changes that occur within their bodies and compare themselves to their peers and the socially constructed idealized female body. Girls? lack of knowledge about their own bodies combined with power influences challenge girls? ability to understand their embodied selves. These issues are magnified in physical education due to the public nature of the environment, where students? bodies are on display and can be surveyed and judged by others. This book provides insight on how adolescent girls perceive and feel about their bodies and how they navigate ways to feel comfortable within their own bodies and the physical education environment. Girls? voices are represented through student-centered exploratory projects that are also provided in this book. The results should inform physical educators, parents, and students on factors that influence girls? embodied identities and why it is important to provide opportunities for their voices to be heard.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Schools are institutions that produce and reproduce the meanings society has given to the construction of the body. Adolescent girls try to navigate the physical changes that occur within their bodies and compare themselves to their peers and the socially constructed idealized female body. Girls? lack of knowledge about their own bodies combined with power influences challenge girls? ability to understand their embodied selves. These issues are magnified in physical education due to the public nature of the environment, where students? bodies are on display and can be surveyed and judged by others. This book provides insight on how adolescent girls perceive and feel about their bodies and how they navigate ways to feel comfortable within their own bodies and the physical education environment. Girls? voices are represented through student-centered exploratory projects that are also provided in this book. The results should inform physical educators, parents, and students on factors that influence girls? embodied identities and why it is important to provide opportunities for their voices to be heard.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jennifer L. Fisette, EdD: Studied Physical Education Teacher Education at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Assistant Professor of Physical Education Teacher Education at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639160835
ISBN 13 
9783639160833
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
164
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Personne responsable
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