Reconceptualizing student motivation in physical education : an examination of what resources are valued by pre-adolescent girls in contemporary society
O'Donovan, T. and Kirk, D. (2008) Reconceptualizing student motivation in physical education : an examination of what resources are valued by pre-adolescent girls in contemporary society. European Physical Education Review, 14 (1). pp. 71-91. ISSN 1356-336X
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Despite receiving an unprecedented level of government funding to ensure young people have two hours of high quality physical education (PE) and sport, physical educators in the UK continue to decry poor motivation levels and disengaged youth in PE. The major purpose of this paper is to achieve a greater understanding of the factors that motivate young girls' engagement in PE. Throughout this paper we foreground the perspectives of 13 white pre-adolescent girls through an ecological analysis of naturally occurring talk and interviews with pupils in year 7 (aged 11 to 12 years) of a suburban town in the UK Midlands. The discussion that follows attempts to provide new vantage points for contemplating what motivates pre-adolescent girls' engagement in PE. This paper examines the ways that this group of girls position themselves around available discourses in a wider physical and popular culture.
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O'Donovan, T. and Kirk, D. ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 49133 |
Keywords: | popular physical culture, student agendas, physical education, Special aspects of education, Education, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation |
Subjects: | Education > Special aspects of education |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 08 Sep 2014 09:05 |
Last modified: | 20 Jan 2021 21:26 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/49133 |
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