What is it about?
The paper deals with an ethnographic approach of Physical Education Subject with students of 11 year old. It shows that there is a conflit between instituted norms and « arts de faire » (arts of doing : De Certeau), in the practices of students and teacher. It also shows that the teacher is not the center, core of the group but a student a little more old than the others. It shows how two students are excluded of the group one because being by the only side of the « arts de faire » and the other because being on the contrary by the side of the institution.
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Why is it important?
It's important because it show that the group in P.E. subject has a specific dynamic and that the teacher is not the center of the group.
Perspectives
It could be important to practice others ethnographic approach in others subjects and others classes to make the whole ethnology of school in France (see Woods for England) and not only the ethnology of a class level and of one subject.
Pr. Jacques Gleyse
University of Montpellier, France
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This page is a summary of: Everyday physical education for 11-year-olds in a ‘rurban’ (outer city) secondary school in the south of France: the conflict between norms andarts de faire– an ethnographic approach, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, July 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2012.690373.
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