Dominant discourses of gender that are related to physical activity, body image, and health are reproduced in PE. Join Dr. Göran Gerdin (@GerdinNG) to discuss boys’ experiences of gender discourses in PE during secondary school lessons in New Zealand. We will talk about his article that draws on a large ethnographic study that acknowledges boys as active subjects in problamatizing and negotiating power relations.

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You can find the full cite here: Gerdin, G. (2017). ‘It's not like you are less of a man just because you don't play rugby'—boys' problematisation of gender during secondary school physical education lessons in New Zealand. Sport, Education and Society, 22(8), 890-904. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1112781