Cooperative learning processes about gender in physical education and health
Studies about the subject physical education and health illustrate that the subject have been and still is influenced by a strong gender order. The aim of the project Cooperative learning processes is to extend the understanding of how gender is constructed in the subject by an analysis of the dialogue about boys and girls conditions in physical education and health between qualified teachers/scientists and teachers in PE. Three qualified teachers at GIH in Stockholm and four teachers in PE at an upper secondary school in Huddinge were talking four times about gender in PE. Each dialogue was transcribed and sent to each member. The transcribed conversation was a bas for the coming talk. The method is inspired from the method which Lenz Taguchi used in her dissertation Emancipation and resistance (2000), The learning process of cooperation is highly about to untie the images and social hierachies´ that control relations between, on one hand, the one who stands as the interpreter of the practice (the scientist) and, on the other hand, the one who has the corporal experience of the practice (the one who ought to know). This is a greater challenge than you can imagine.