Session Information
27 SES 07 C, Parallel Paper Session
Parallel Paper Session
Contribution
This proposal focuses on a theoretical discussion about the notion of “gender position” to analyze learning in physical education (PE). Research on gender in physical education has pointed out the social construction of gendered bodies and minds through the curriculum. It has been shown that female students do not benefit from equal opportunities to participate in physical activities. The purpose of this presentation is to focus, within a didactique research approach, on student learning with special attention to the gendered content taught and learned and with the aim of better understanding the differentiated process which is as the root of gender issues in PE (Amade-Escot, 2006).
In the first part of the presentation, we briefly show how the notion of “gender position” is a pertinent analytical tool to understand how gender inequities are co-constructed in PE classrooms (Amade-Escot, 2006; Elandoulsi, 2011; Verscheure & Amade-Escot, 2007). We point out, within the theoretical framework of the Joint Action Theory in Didactics (JATD), how teacher and students (female and male) jointly construct gendered content knowledge in PE classrooms.
In the second part we discuss the notion of “gender position” against the background of two theoretical frameworks: the JATD (Sensevy, Amade-Escot & Gruson, 2010) and the “Positioning theory” (Harré & van Langenhove, 1999). First, we show the connection between: (i) the concept of differentiated didactical contract (CDD) as developed in French speaking research in comparative didactics (Schubauer-Leoni, 1996, 2003), (ii) the notion of “gender position” that allow to understand how the subject matter shapes teachers’ and students’ joint actions, and (iii) the concept of “positioning” which can be seen as a dynamic alternative to the concept of role (Harré & van Langenhove, 1999). We then attempt to highlight the epistemological links between the two frameworks: mainly a situated approach within a social-interactionism background with respect to the theoretical works of Goffman, Mead and Vygotsky.
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References
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