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- Webb, Louisa, et al.
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Healthy bodies : construction of the body and health in physical education
- 2008
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - London : Routledge. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; 13:4, s. 353-372
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In physical education, bodies are not only moved but made. There are perceived expectations for bodies in physical education to be ‘healthy bodies’*for teachers to be ‘appropriate’ physical, fit, healthy and skilful ‘role models’ and for students to display a slim body that is equated with fitness and health. In teachers’ monitoring of students with the intention of regulating health behaviour, however, the surveillance of students’ bodies and associated assumptions about health practices are implicated in the (re)production of the ‘cult of the body’. In this paper, we consider issues of embodiment and power in a subject area where the visual and active body is central and we use data from Australian and Swedish schools to analyse the discourses of health and embodiment in physical education. In both Swedish and Australian physical education there were discourses related to a fit healthy body and an at risk healthy body. These discourses also acted through a range of techniques of power, particularly regulation and normalisation.
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- Öhman, Marie, et al.
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Feel good—be good : subject content and governing processes in physical education
- 2008
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Ingår i: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. - Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge. - 1740-8989 .- 1742-5786. ; 13:4, s. 365-379
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: In this paper a study of both subject content and governing processes in Swedish physical education is presented. The reason why an analysis of both content and processes is of special interest is that it makes it possible to understand the encounter between the institutional level and the practice of education.Purpose: The purpose of the paper is threefold: (1) to analyse the subject content in physical education through identifying discourses embedded in its practice; (2) to illustrate how the subject content is created/re-created in physical education practice through various governing processes; and (3) to discuss how governing processes also become content through thesocialization of students in terms of becoming a certain type of social citizen.Research design and data collection: The empirical material used is collected in connection with a national evaluation of physical education in Sweden, commissioned by the Swedish Government and the Swedish National Agency for Education. This paper uses local curriculum documents from 72 schools and 15 video-recorded physical education lessons from five schools. A starting point for the methodological framework is discourse theory and the governing perspective developed by Michel Foucault (1978/1991, 1980, 1982/2002). The governing perspective is used as a methodological tool, and we work with two overarching analysis themes: one oriented towards what pupils are governed, in terms of discourses embedded in physical education, and the other how the identified discourses are created/re-created in the practice of physical education. We also use the methodological framework as a tool to discuss how the governing processes also become content—a content of socialization.Findings: The results show that physical exertion and active participation are the main threads that run though the analysed material. In connection with physical exertion and active participation, pupils are also encouraged to cooperate with others and to compete. The content of socialization is primarily directed towards different components of willingness, for example a will to do one’s best and a will to try, where the pupils are expected to be participatory, take responsibility and govern their own actions in the direction of that which is most reasonable.Conclusions: A clear message is communicated in physical education in Sweden—be active and work up a sweat. This is also concerned with fostering good character, i.e. creating correct attitudes and approaches through physical activity—be an active and willing person. Physical education is consequently a place where both political volition and the creation of today’s citizens are staged. It is thus not only physical exertion—the physiological effects of exercise and involvement in sports and physical education—that is in the foreground of the activities we study in physical education. It is also about becoming a certain type of social citizen.
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- Bäckström, Åsa, 1966-
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Känsla och kroppsligt kunnade inom idrott / "Känsla" and bodily knowing in sports
- 2015
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Ingår i: In the flow.. - Linköping.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Inom idrott är känsla något en har eller inte. Känsla sätts ofta som förled till idrottsliga attiraljer eller idrottsliga göranden. Bollkänsla innebär en förmåga att hantera bollar på ett skickligt sätt och matchkänsla innebär att ha en helhetssyn på matchen. Till skillnad mot teknik, som kan övas upp, är känsla en förmåga som omtalas termer av kroppslig kompetens som funnits med hela livet. Känsla har också en estetisk dimension. I detta paper diskuteras idrottens känsla i relation till fenomenologisk teori. Genom empiriska exempel från etnografiska studier om idrott, synliggörs hur känslan och dess olika dimensioner kan sägas vara betydelsefulla komponenter i konstruktionen av kunnande.
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- Efverström, Anna, et al.
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Anti-doping and legitimacy : an international survey of elite athletes’ perceptions
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sport Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1940-6940 .- 1940-6959. ; , s. 491-514
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Anti-doping work is a comprehensive enterprise that entails control and governance of elite athletes’ everyday lives. However, in policy-making regarding doping and anti-doping in elite sports, the athletes’ perspective has not been considered adequately. Focusing on elite athletes’ perceptions of anti-doping as both principle and praxis, the study aimed to analyse how these perceptions can be understood from a legitimacy perspective. A survey study involving 261 elite athletes from 51 different countries and four international sports federations was conducted. The results showed that the athletes did not question the legitimacy of the rules, but had concerns about the legitimacy of the way the rules and principles are enforced in practice, specifically with regard to matters of privacy, lack of efficiency and equal conditions as well as athletes’ involvement in the anti-doping work. The article describes how athletes’ perceptions of the legitimacy of anti-doping work constitute the basis for their willingness to follow regulations as well as a precondition for the work’s functionality and stability. In light of this finding, the article calls for the empowerment of athletes in anti-doping work.
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- Ekenberg, Anna, et al.
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Idrottslärares informationsbehov i yrkeslivet
- 2010
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Syftet med undersökningen var att studera och dokumentera idrottslärares yrkesrelaterade informationsbehov och informationsanvändning. Till detta använde vi följande frågeställningar:- Vilka läromedel använder lärare i idrott och hälsa i sin undervisning och hur får de tag på nytt material?- Vilka informationskällor använder lärare i idrott och hälsa i sin kompetensutveckling?Konkret ville vi använda resultatet till att implementera yrkesrelevant informationssökning i bibliotekets undervisning av lärarstudenterna vid GIH, samt utveckla GIH bibliotekets webbplats med information om användbara resurser för idrottslärare.Metoden vi använde var enkätundersökning med hjälp av ett webbenkätverktyg. Vi fick in svar från 122 lärare i idrott och hälsa.Resultaten visade att det material som flest lärare (74%) använde i undervisningen är sådant som de fick under sin lärarutbildning. 69% av lärarna i vår undersökning använde läroböcker i undervisningen i idrott och hälsa. Att använda bibliotek var däremot inte vanligt. För att hitta nytt material till undervisningen sökte 81% av lärarna på webben, främst genom Lektion.se och Google. 78% angav kurser och konferenser som källa till nytt material. Vad gäller informationskällor för den egna kompetensutvecklingen angav flest lärare (87%) att de läste facktidskrifter, där den vanligaste tidskriften var Idrott & hälsa. Många av lärarna var medlemmar i nätverk för idrottslärare och hade deltagit i kurser och konferenser för sin kompetensutveckling under det senaste året. Att prenumerera på nyhetsbrev eller att ha nyhetsbevakning (RSS) på någon webbsida eller blogg var inte lika vanligt.Ett framträdande resultat av undersökningen var att så många av lärarna efterlyste samlade övningsbanker med s.k. "tips och trix" att kunna använda som inspirationskälla i undervisningen. Detta lärarnas upplevda behov av praktiskt tillämpbart material kan ställas mot det faktum att lärarutbildningens akademiserats och att man efter genomgången högskoleutbildning, enligt högskolelagen, förväntas kunna söka och värdera kunskap på vetenskaplig nivå samt följa kunskapsutvecklingen inom sitt yrke och ämnesområde. Att under utbildningstiden visa på möjligheten att bevaka olika källor ser vi som ett sätt att underlätta för lärarstudenterna att följa kunskapsutvecklingen i deras kommande yrkesliv.
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- Kilger, Magnus, 1974-
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From hard work to grit : On the discursive formation of talent
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. - : Malmö universitet. - 2000-088X. ; 10:2, s. 29-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the long historical interest for the selection of young talented children in sports. This seemingly everlasting search for talents and the quest for the especially gifted is followed by the practice of trying to find and select the right individuals. This paper elucidates historical representations of talent and talent selection in a series of professional sports literature in Sweden during the 1930s, 1980s, 1990s and 2010s.Drawing on a discourse analytic approach, it illustrates the historical understanding of selection and how such practices produce formations of legitimacy. The study shows how certain historical elements reoccur in contemporary selection discourse and how specific actions are transformed into personal characteristics. These selection processes construct a rationale for a legitimate selection and illustrate how talent selection is based on historically specific assumptions, normative and moral statements and activities connected to a specific discursive formation. This insight can underlines that talent selection cannot be understood as essential skills identified through observation, tests or interviews. It is rather to be understood as a discursive repertoire responding to a specific historical legitimacy.
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- Kilger, Magnus, 1974-, et al.
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Talent Production in Interaction : Performance Appraisal Interviews in Talent Selection Camps
- 2017
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Ingår i: Communication & Sport. - London : SAGE Publications. - 2167-4795 .- 2167-4809. ; 5:1, s. 110-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In sports, there is an extensive interest in identifying and selecting talented children in order to develop elite adult athletes. The process of selecting and screening talents involves not only physical and technical skills but also efforts to find adequate personality traits. Therefore, different types of performance appraisal interviews (PAIs) are becoming increasingly common within the field. Departing from fieldwork in two selection camps for Swedish youth national teams in soccer and hockey, we will take a closer look at the PAIs employed during these camps. This article takes on a narrative approach, emphasizing PAI as a narrative genre and a framework for a specific form of interaction. Our findings show how eligibility is performed in interaction through following three practices: (i) showcasing gratitude without tipping into flattery, (ii) using temporality as a way of displaying developmental potential, and (iii) adopting the role of the self-reflecting subject. This genre of interviews not only produces certain practices but also preferred subject positions and narratives. The PAI is thus a narrative genre where the players are encouraged to perform talent in order to appear selectable.
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- Kilger, Magnus, 1974-
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Talent stories in youth sports : Discursively shared narratives of success
- 2017
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Ingår i: Narrative Inquiry. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 1387-6740 .- 1569-9935. ; 27:1, s. 47-65
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Success stories are a frequently investigated genre of shared cultural narratives. This paper will pay particular attention to success stories in sports and investigate how young participants in selection camps in soccer and hockey are using a set of shared narratives in order to produce their personal stories of success. By looking at narratives-in-interaction in this specific context, these interviews are investigated as a narrative genre. The analysis shows how a set of shared narratives are used in storylines in order to legitimize the personal story of success and how a number of dilemmatic spaces are addressed. This study shows how personal success stories are intimately tied to “discursively shared narratives” and how this context constitutes a specific narrative framework.
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