Resumen de An Investigation of Students� Embodied Discourses in Physical Education: A Gender Project
Laura Azzarito, Melinda A. Solmon
Despite significant theoretical and practical progress over the past 20 years, the social construction of gender and its link to youths� participation in physical activity in school contexts remain critical issues that call for further socioeducational scrutiny. In this study, researchers investigated the ways students� embodiment of discursive constructs differed in terms of gender and race, and the relation between students� embodied discursive constructs and students� favorite or least favorite physical activities in physical education classes. The participants were 528 students from three public high schools. A survey was developed to assess students� embodiment of discursive constructs. These results suggest that discursive constructs are influential in producing students� choice of �gender-appropriate� physical activities. To destabilize the gender binary, therefore, the creation and promotion of a discourse of the �multiplicity of physicality� is proposed.
