TY - JOUR
T1 - Now, I'm Magazine Detective the Whole Time: Listening and Responding to Young People's Complex Experiences of Popular Physical Culture
T2 - Listening and responding to young people's complex experiences of popular physical culture
AU - O'Sullivan, Mary
AU - Enright, Eimear
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Popular physical culture serves as a site, subject and medium for young people's learning (Sandford & Rich, 2006) and impacts their relationship with physical education, physical activity and the construction of their embodied identities. This paper addresses the potential of scrapbooking as a pedagogical and methodological tool to facilitate physical education researchers and teachers to listen to, and better understand and respond to extend students' existing knowledge of, and critical engagement with popular physical culture. The data draws from a three year Participatory Action Research project that was undertaken in an urban, secondary school and was designed to engage 41 girls (aged 15-19) in understanding, critiquing and transforming aspects of their lives that influenced their perspectives of their bodies and their physical activity and physical education engagement. In this paper the focus is on the engagement of eleven of these girls in a five week popular physical culture unit. The students' scrapbooks, audio-recordings of classes, a guided conversation, and field notes constitute the data sources. Findings suggest scrapbooking has the potential to allow researchers access, understand and respond to students' perspectives on popular physical culture and their lives in a way that other methods may not. Pedagogically, scrapbooking supported students in critically appraising and making meaning of "scraps" of popular physical culture.
AB - Popular physical culture serves as a site, subject and medium for young people's learning (Sandford & Rich, 2006) and impacts their relationship with physical education, physical activity and the construction of their embodied identities. This paper addresses the potential of scrapbooking as a pedagogical and methodological tool to facilitate physical education researchers and teachers to listen to, and better understand and respond to extend students' existing knowledge of, and critical engagement with popular physical culture. The data draws from a three year Participatory Action Research project that was undertaken in an urban, secondary school and was designed to engage 41 girls (aged 15-19) in understanding, critiquing and transforming aspects of their lives that influenced their perspectives of their bodies and their physical activity and physical education engagement. In this paper the focus is on the engagement of eleven of these girls in a five week popular physical culture unit. The students' scrapbooks, audio-recordings of classes, a guided conversation, and field notes constitute the data sources. Findings suggest scrapbooking has the potential to allow researchers access, understand and respond to students' perspectives on popular physical culture and their lives in a way that other methods may not. Pedagogically, scrapbooking supported students in critically appraising and making meaning of "scraps" of popular physical culture.
KW - Bodies
KW - Critical health literacy
KW - Media
KW - Participatory visual methods
KW - Student voice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885908415&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1123/jtpe.32.4.394
DO - 10.1123/jtpe.32.4.394
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885908415
SN - 0273-5024
VL - 32
SP - 394
EP - 418
JO - Journal of Teaching in Physical Education
JF - Journal of Teaching in Physical Education
IS - 4
ER -