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Intergenerational touch in physical education in relation to heteronormativity: Female students’ perspectives
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1097-8750
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences.
2020 (English)In: European Physical Education Review, ISSN 1356-336X, E-ISSN 1741-2749, Vol. 26, no 2, p. 392-409Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Research within the field of intergenerational touch has shown that there is a tension between the need to use physical contact as an obvious pedagogical tool, and the no-touch discourse. Within this tension physical contact between physical education teachers and students has also been shown to be a gender/ed issue with heteronormative points of departure. The aim of this study is to investigate how young adult female students’ talk about physical contact between teachers and students in physical education is related to heteronormativity. The study takes its starting point in Foucault’s work on discourses and Butler’s performative perspective. Thirteen female students in upper secondary school were interviewed in four focus groups using photo elicitation. In the findings, three performatives are identified that show how the students’ talk about physical contact between teacher and student in physical education is related to heteronormativity. The three performatives are: (a) gendering with age; (b) being wary of men; and (c) feeling sympathy for men. The paper discusses the effects the heteronormative discourse has on young adult female students and male teachers in relation to physical contact in physical education.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2020. Vol. 26, no 2, p. 392-409
Keywords [en]
Intergenerational touch, physical contact, physical education, student perspective, heteronormativity
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences Pedagogy
Research subject
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-79848DOI: 10.1177/1356336X19865556ISI: 000526459000006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85070405895OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-79848DiVA, id: diva2:1392166
Available from: 2020-02-06 Created: 2020-02-06 Last updated: 2021-05-18Bibliographically approved
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1. Physical contact in physical education: New perspectives and future directions
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Physical contact in physical education: New perspectives and future directions
2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis takes its point of departure in the research field of intergenerational touch in educational settings. Specifically, it is mainly the student perspective of physical contact between teachers and students in physical education (PE) that is of interest. In addition, a scoping review has also been conducted. The results are presented in four studies and offer different perspectives of physical contact in PE: students’ perspectives, students perspectives related to heteronormativity, immigrant students’ perspectives and a research field perspective. Two of the four studies that make up the thesis are analysed through the lens of the didactic contract, although a discourse analytical framework has also been used.

The empirical data in Studies I-III consists of interviews with upper secondary school students, where photo elicitation has been used as a technique. The results suggest that students expect and appreciate physical contact in PE, as long as the purpose and intent of the physical contact is clear to the students. It is, however, evident that female students’ talk about physical contact can be related to heteronormativity. It is also shown that immigrant students take several negotiation aspects into consideration when determining whether or not physical contact is perceived as legitimate.

The results of Study IV, the scoping review, indicate that research related to physical contact in educational settings centres around fears and anxieties among practitioners as a result of child safety and no touch guidelines. This has also had an effect on practitioners’ professional identity. In addition, the results centre around the functions and needs of physical contact as well as gender and cultural differences.

The thesis contributes to the research field and to the teaching of PE by providing a student perspective on the issue of physical contact in PE, by its didactical reasoning and by discussing alternatives to the one-size-fitsall guidelines for appropriate and inappropriate touch.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Örebro: Örebro University, 2021. p. 117
Series
Örebro Studies in Sport Sciences, ISSN 1654-7535 ; 33
Keywords
Physical contact, physical education, PE, touch, student perspective, heteronormativity, gender, immigrant students, scoping review
National Category
Sport and Fitness Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90893 (URN)9789175293875 (ISBN)
Public defence
2021-06-11, Örebro universitet, Forumhuset, Hörsal F, Fakultetsgatan 1, Örebro, 13:15 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2021-04-07 Created: 2021-04-07 Last updated: 2021-05-31Bibliographically approved

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