Those of us who have been participants in sport for much of our lives often find it a time-
consuming and irrelevant task to defend the joys and rewards of physical activity to the …

This book proposes alternative ways of looking at human movement and brings into
question the traditional role of the human-movement profession as an agent of social and …

Epistemologists identify different approaches to knowledge, but scholarship within
kinesiology has been dominated by the scientific method. Although some scholarship with …

Background: As the conversation regarding gender and physical education has evolved, a
great many suggestions have been offered that reflect ways of designing more gender …

The purpose of this study was to examine how one secondary physical education teacher
understood gender at her school and how that understanding developed. Theoretical …

The struggles associated with a male-dominated sport curriculum in England (Kirk, 2001,
chapter 3; Williams and Bedward, 2001, chapter 9) are also evident in the US (Chepyator …

In this article we propose a philosophical critique of two general, but not exhaustive,
approaches to gender studies in sport, namely gynocentric feminism and humanist …

In spite of this, physical activity scholars and practitioners have given scant attention to
economic impoverishment. For the most part, we have focused on personal problems of …

Gender equity in physical education has been a concern of physical educators. A decline in
participation of females in physical activity as they move through adolescence, the fact that …

The aim of the research was to determine the attitudes and the interests of schoolgirls and
schoolboys towards the physical education teaching and its content. The sample consisted …