Despite good intentions:The elusiveness of socialjustice in health and physicaleducation curricula acrossdifferent contexts

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dc.contributor.authorKitching, Ansie
dc.contributor.authorGerdin, Göran
dc.contributor.authorLundin, Katarina
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-10T09:46:42Z
dc.date.available2025-06-10T09:46:42Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThis paper draws on critical discourse analysis to examine how health and physical education (HPE) curricula from Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand may influence possibilities for the enactment of social justice in schools. The findings highlight the presence of social justice intentions across the five curricula as related to embodied movement experiences, social cohesion, and activism. That said, the findings simultaneously suggest that the language used to orient teaching towards social justice objectives is often elusive. In this paper, we contend that despite the presence of social justice intentions in these five HPE curricula, the articulation and function of the language within the curriculum documents do not necessarily support the enactment of this in practice. To conclude, we therefore suggest that more work is needed to ensure that curricula and other supporting artefacts and resources can better support both teachers’ practice and students’ learning in raising awareness of, and addressing, social justice outcomes in HPE. © The Author(s) 2024.
dc.identifier.citationGerdin, G., Lundin, K., Philpot, R., Berg, E., Mooney, A., Kitching, A., Alfrey, L., Schenker, K. and Linnér, S., 2025. Despite good intentions: The elusiveness of social justice in health and physical education curricula across different contexts. European Physical Education Review, 31(1), pp.109-128.
dc.identifier.issnhttps://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X241249820
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/20480
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltd
dc.subjectcurriculum
dc.subjectdiscourse
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectlanguage
dc.subjectPhysical education
dc.titleDespite good intentions:The elusiveness of socialjustice in health and physicaleducation curricula acrossdifferent contexts
dc.typeArticle

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