Negotiations of gender discourse: experiences of co-education in a Swedish sports initiative for children

Grahn, Karin; Torell, Viveka Berggren

doi:10.1080/17430437.2015.1096262

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“…Fostering democratic childrenhere understood as listening to everyone's opinions and considering various suggestions about how to handle situationswas not often a manifest aspect of the activities. Moreover, Grahn and Berggren Torell (2015) explore how children understand gender in government-financed sports initiatives and in sports activities that take place during the children's leisure time. They found that the children reasoned about leisure-time soccer and soccer players within a discourse of difference and described boys and men as better and tougher soccer players.…”

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“…They found that the children reasoned about leisure-time soccer and soccer players within a discourse of difference and described boys and men as better and tougher soccer players. At the same time, the gendered notions shown in Grahn and Berggren Torell (2015) were challenged when both boys and girls disagreed with statements that presented boys as being better and tougher. The observations of the activities showed somewhat different gender patterns than the children described.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In contrast with previous research, the leaders do not seem to contribute to equal sports practice. Grahn and Berggren Torell (2015) showed that when the activities were structured by the coach, frequent interactions occurred between girls and boys. In these activities, gender was not salient to the children's interactions.…”

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A sport for all programme in school: girls’ experiences

Carlman

Hjalmarsson

2018

Sport in Society

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This article examines a Swedish Sport for All Programme (SAP) in school. We use a case study to discuss girls' debut in alternative sports programme organized in collaboration between school and the sports movement. The empirical data are derived from repeated focus group interviews with one group of seven 10year-old girls participating in one SAP. The analyses focus on their subjective experiences and how broader gender structures influence these experiences. Drawing on the results of this study, we argue that certain sports can be interpreted as oppressive activities that produce asymmetric power relationships between different groups of children. Simultaneously, the girls see the idea of sports as joyful activities, without male abuse and oppression or hierarchical gender relationships. Based on the girls' accounts, we claim that both the leaders and the children actively reproduce gender stereotypes in the SAP.

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A sport for all programme in school: girls’ experiences

Carlman

Hjalmarsson

2018

Sport in Society

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“…I vissa sammanhang utmanas traditionella könsmönster, i andra förstärks de, men i flera av studierna framkommer att både utmaning och förstärkning sker parallellt av både män och kvinnor. 93 Grahn & Berggren Torell, 2016, s. 1198-1199Maclean, 2016Maclean, , s. 1378Maclean, -1382Priyadharshini & Pressland, 2016, s. 1242-1243. 94 Di Carlo, 2016, s. 1367Fink m.fl., 2016Fink m.fl., , s. 1328Fink m.fl., -1329McSharry, 2017, s. 349-350;Winiarska m.fl., 2016Winiarska m.fl., , s. 1344.…”

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Vi och de Andra: Om idrott, genus och normer på en idrottsprofilerad högstadieskola

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“…Relatively few scholars have searched for explanations of why and how children construct gender categories during PE. Grahn and Torell (2015) explored the views of Swedish children participating in a co-ed sports initiative regarding their thoughts about participating in soccer. The researchers found that children expressed stereotypical views pertaining to abilities, for example, that boys have more ball sense, are better skilled and are much tougher than girls.…”

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Exploring task-related student peer interactions in physical education

Koekoek¹

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General introduction General introductionMovement and education are essential for each living human. For that reason, I am very fortunate that I had many opportunities in my youth to be engaged in sports and to be physically active. I enjoyed most of the movement activities during physical education (PE) lessons at school, and I will never forget the exciting time when I learned how to play handball at my sports club. I had many positive experiences in PE and in most sports activities and sport events that took place during my school period. Looking back, I was particularly attracted to the sports environment and the sports culture in my school, but I also very much appreciated the dedication and positive feedback of my teachers and coaches who taught me the necessary insights and skills. Even more important, I attached great value in learning and playing together with my classmates and friends. Although I was not specifically aware of why, what or how I learned, my current knowledge makes me realize that I learned much more than I thought. Besides learning movement activities, I learned about what happens during work groups in PE as I was implicitly and explicitly confronted with my classmates' attitudes and expectations. The PE classroom was also frequently the place where Perspectives on physical literacy in continental Europe

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Negotiations of gender discourse: experiences of co-education in a Swedish sports initiative for children

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

A sport for all programme in school: girls’ experiences

A sport for all programme in school: girls’ experiences

Vi och de Andra: Om idrott, genus och normer på en idrottsprofilerad högstadieskola

Exploring task-related student peer interactions in physical education

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