A socially critical HPE (aka physical education) and the challenge for teacher education

Tinning, Richard (2012). A socially critical HPE (aka physical education) and the challenge for teacher education. In Barry Down and John Smyth (Ed.), Critical voices in teacher education: teaching for social justice in conservative times (pp. 223-238) Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.


Author Tinning, Richard
Title of chapter A socially critical HPE (aka physical education) and the challenge for teacher education
Title of book Critical voices in teacher education: teaching for social justice in conservative times
Place of Publication Dordrecht, Netherlands
Publisher Springer
Publication year 2012
Sub-type Critical scholarly text
Series Explorations of educational purpose, v.22
Editor Barry Down
John Smyth
ISBN 9789400739734; 9400739737
Chapter number 16
Start page 223
End page 238
Total pages 16
Total chapters 19
Collection year 2013
Language eng
Formatted Abstract/Summary The challenges facing contemporary teacher education are significant. Moreover, physical education teacher education (PETE) faces particular challenges that relate to the nature of physical education as a school subject and the centrality of the body in identity making. In this chapter, I discuss some of the tensions and dilemmas that confront PETE and offer a modest critical pedagogy as a realistic aspiration in an increasingly troubling context. In the face of conceptions of education as human capital and the juggernaut of increased prescription regarding competencies and standards, I contend that it is how physical education teachers think about education, social justice, physical activity, bodies and health that is the most important graduate attribute.
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