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Heterotopias in physical education: towards a queer pedagogy?
GIH Swedish Sch Sport & Hlth Sci, Stockholm, Sweden.
Örebro University, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8748-8843
Örebro University, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden.
2014 (English)In: Gender and Education, ISSN 0954-0253, E-ISSN 1360-0516, Vol. 26, no 2, p. 135-150Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article sets out to outline how prevailing gender structures can be challenged in physical education (PE) by exploring queer potentials in an event that took place during a dancing lesson in an upper secondary PE class. The event and its features were documented through video recording and post-lesson interviews with the teacher and some of the students. It is argued that the event can be seen as a heterotopia, according to Michel Foucault a 'counter-site' enabling the resistance to authority, where the production of normalcy was challenged. Furthermore, even though the event happened spontaneously, the authors suggest that it can show a way towards a queer pedagogy for PE through teaching paradoxically; it indicates a preferred ethos of the lesson and the use of conceptual tools by teachers and students that make them able to intervene in the production of normalcy.

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Abingdon: Routledge, 2014. Vol. 26, no 2, p. 135-150
Keywords [en]
education, gender, heteronormativity, teaching paradoxically, sexuality
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Sport and Fitness Sciences
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Sports Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-34999DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2014.888403ISI: 000333886900004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84898037945OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-34999DiVA, id: diva2:716335
Available from: 2014-05-09 Created: 2014-05-09 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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