Making a Difference? Education and ëAbilityí in Physical Education

By J. Evans. 2004

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Subfields: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Evidence for the social construction of ability in physical education (2010, methodology): “Another key element of the definition of ability is its assumed nature—whether a person's ability is innate, the product of their environment, an interrelationship between genetics and environment, or a construct reflecting the way in which certain individual and collective attributes are valued in ”
The effects of setting on classroom teaching and student learning in mainstream mathematics, English and science lessons: a critical review of the literature in England (2014, background): “…evidence to suggest that stratification and “ability” grouping, along with the labelling and segregation of the “gifted and talented” and “low attainers” (Evans 2004) are increasingly overt features of physical education (PE) departments in secondary schools in England and Wales (Penney and…”
Physical literacy in the field of physical education – A challenge and a possibility (2015, background): “It is built on a scientific framework, on a philosophical underpinning rationale that can support and complement the society’s understandings of the PE.”
Exploring social and environmental factors affecting adolescents' participation in physical activity (2007, background): “This reflects comments from Evans (2004) who suggests that structured provisions of physical activity in deprived areas is limited to ‘common’ activities such as football for boys and netball for girls.”
Still feeling like a spare piece of luggage? Embodied experiences of (dis)ability in physical education and school sport (2005, methodology): “(Evans, 2004, p. 100) In this paper, I will consider ability as embodied social constructs, and in so doing, attempt to move the thinking offered by Evans forward by exploring how these embodied conceptions of ability are manifest through young disabled people’s experiences of physical education…”