Authoring Students' Perspectives: Toward Student-Centered Pedagogy in Physical Education

• In Event: 14.044 - Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: 14.044-19 - Articulating Students' Perspectives, Meaning-Making, and Pedagogical Cultural Differences

Abstract

In this paper we identify the key features of student-centered pedagogy as a means for engaging students in physical education. Specifically we: a) Name student-centered pedagogy as a way of authorizing student perspectives; b) Review the PE pedagogy literature uses of terms such as student voice/attitudes/perspectives associated with student-centeredness differentiating these terms from what is more broadly considered student-centered pedagogy; c) Conduct an analysis of activist research that intentionally disrupted traditional student-teacher power relations in order to better meet the physical activity needs of girls, from which emerged four general characteristics of what we are proposing is student-centered pedagogy; and d) Exemplify this characterization of student-centered pedagogy in research with both girls and boys in a range of activity contexts.

Authors

• Kimberly L. Oliver, New Mexico State University

• David Kirk, University of Strathclyde