Social Justice Pedagogies in Health and Physical Education

About Göran GerdinKatarina SchenkerKjersti Mordal MoenKnut WestlieLena LarssonRod PhilpotSusanne LinnérWayne Smith

Göran Gerdin is Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Science at Linnaeus University Sweden where he is responsible for the Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programme. His research focuses on how issues of gender bodies spaces and (dis)pleasures shape students participation enjoyment and identities in school Health and Physical Education (HPE). He is on the editorial board for the journal Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education and a convenor in the Research in Sport Pedagogy network for the European Educational Research Association (EERA).Wayne Smith is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland New Zealand. His research and major teaching contributions are in critical pedagogy in Physical Education (PE) and skill learning (how we learn to become skillful). His recent work also focuses on how we learn both consciously and sub-consciously in and through our physical engagement in play.Rod Philpot is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland New Zealand where he is programme leader for the Bachelor of Sport Health and Physical Education. His research and teaching focuses on critical justice pedagogies in diverse sport physical education and health contexts.Katarina Schenker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Science at Linnaeus University Sweden. Her research interests concern PETE and the inclusion and exclusion of children and youth in sport and in the Swedish school subject Physical Education and Health (PEH). Additionally she researches the relationship between sport and social entrepreneurship from a Swedish sport policy perspective.Kjersti Mordal Moen is Professor in Physical Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Norway. Her research field is PETE practicum in PETE as well as the school subject PE. She is leading the research group Teaching and Learning in Physical Education and is responsible for the Master in Physical Education and Sports at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.Susanne Linnér is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sport Science at Linnaeus University Sweden. Her main research interests are ethics social issues learning and leadership issues in both children/youth sport and elite sport but also in school PEH.Knut Westlie is Associate Professor in Physical Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Norway. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience in Norwegian schools including physical education. He is a member of the research group Teaching and Learning in Physical Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.Lena Larsson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport Science at Linnaeus University Sweden. Her research interests revolve around the passing on of values and the difficulties of challenging taken-for-granted beliefs within PETE and the Swedish school subject PEH and how teachers practice address democracy and social justice.