What is it about?
Recently, the Queensland Studies Authority (formally the Queensland Board of Senior Secondary School Studies) implemented the subject Physical Recreation, a new stream of vocational education. The aim of this study was to examine how power operates in two Physical Recreation case study schools using Foucault's techniques of power.
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Why is it important?
The paper concludes that Physical Recreation perpetuated a male hierarchy that favoured elite athletes and offered limited educative experiences to the majority of students.
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This page is a summary of: Masculinities in Physical Recreation: the (re)production of masculinist discourses in vocational education, Sport Education and Society, February 2008, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13573320701780506.
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