CRITICAL INQUIRY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
CRITICAL INQUIRY AND PROBLEM-SOLVING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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体育中的批判性探究和问题解决
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10.4324/9781315016085
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2013
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通讯作者:
Jan Wright
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作者:
Jan Wright
Whether they agree that we are now in a period of postmodernity, late modernity or high modernity (Kirk 1997), social commentators do agree that we live in times characterised by profound social and cultural changes which are recognisable globally but reach into the everyday lives of individual. The nature of these changes is in large part attributed to enormous advances in technology which have allowed for the rapid processing and transmission of information within and across countries and cultures. On one hand, the greater accessibility of information from a larger range of sources has exposed different points of view and thus provided more spaces for the challenging of taken-for-granted truths. At the same time, however, the ubiquitous presence of television and other forms of electronic media have provided a context in which populations can be persuaded to particular points of view, which include ways of understanding health and the values and meanings associated with physical activity and sport. For individuals the information explosion, rapid changes in values across and between generations and social groups, and exposure to a wide range of values, produces a world in which knowledge is less certain and in which identities are no longer experienced as fixed and constant (Fernandez-Balboa 1997). These uncertainties extend to work, health, livelihoods, relationships and so. Living in such times has effects on how young people think about and do schooling. In Britain, Furlong and Cartmel (1997) have linked these changes to the concept of the risk society (Beck 1992), in which traditional and institutional forms of social and economic relationships have become fragmented and individuals bear the responsibility and cost of shaping their lives. Rather than follow a predetermined linear trajectory, young people are now called on to balance their multiple involvements in study, employment, relationships and leisure; they are active in constructing their own lives. Wyn and Dwyer (1999) and others (Du Bois-Reymond 1998) call this a 'choice biography', emphasising the extent to which