Physical Education, Restoration and the Politics of Sport
Open Access
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Curriculum Studies
- Vol. 3 (2) , 183-196
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0965975950030205
Abstract
This discussion draws on data from research that is investigating the impact of the 1988 Education Reform Act on the provision of sport and physical education in schools in Britain. The analysis explores the ways in which the political Right in the United Kingdom has attempted to both regulate and control the ‘re‐making’ of the National Curriculum and embed the principles and ideals of ‘cultural restoration’ in the curriculum of physical education in state schools in England and Wales. Specifically, the paper highlights the nature and significance of discursive strategies and the manipulation of institutional structures in the struggles to define what is to count as the ‘official pedagogic discourse’ of physical education in state schools. Drawing on the work of Bernstein (1990) the discussion points to the subtle way in which the consciousness of teachers and pupils may, in the future, be framed by the texts of the National Curriculum Physical Education (NCPE).Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Structuring of Pedagogic DiscoursePublished by Taylor & Francis ,2004
- The politics of pedagogy: making a National Curriculum Physical Education1Journal of Education Policy, 1995
- The Changing State of Policy Production in Education: some Australian reflections on the state of policy sociologyInternational Studies in Sociology of Education, 1993
- Education, Majorism and ‘the Curriculum of the Dead’Curriculum Studies, 1993
- Defining a Subject: the rise and rise of the new PE?British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1990