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Extra‐Curricular Physical Education in England and Wales: A Sociological Perspective on a Sporting Bias

2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1740898000050206

1362-7120

Ken Green,

Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport

This paper explores the alleged sporting 'bias' within extra‐curricular physical education (PE) in England and Wales, from a sociological perspective. By drawing upon aspects of figurational sociology ‐‐ in particular, by exploring the habituses of PE teachers and the networks of relationships in which they, as the providers of extra‐curricular PE, are bound up ‐ the paper attempts to expand our understanding of the particular orientation of extra‐curricular PE towards competitive team sport and the more able youngsters. The apparent sporting 'bias' inherent in extra‐curricular PE is explained in terms of how sporting ideologies and practices come to be embedded in the normative behaviour of PE teachers and the manner in which a variety of constraints at the local and national level serve to reinforce the apparent tendency towards providing 'more of the same for the more able'.