This paper explores gendered student learning in physical education (PE) viewed as a situated emerging process involving a triadic relationship between teacher, student(s) and forms of knowledge that are socioculturally bounded. It concerns gymnastic teaching and learning in Tunisia. It was conducted against the background of the Joint Action Studies in Didactics (JASD). Three Tunisian PE teachers having different expertise and experience and 12 male and female students with contrasted skill levels were observed within a gymnastics unit. Based on the video record of the lessons and on teachers' interviews, the findings stress the personal, institutional and cultural dimensions that shape the observed PE practices with special attention to the gendered content taught and learned. The use of the JASD framework highlights the intertwined processes during classroom interactions that influence the co-construction of gendered learning. It makes visible the interplay between the teacher's practical epistemology and the students' gender positioning and its consequence on inequalities in terms of students' learning and the maintenance of gender order in the gym.Keywords: Physical education; Joint action in didactics; Student's learning; Gender positioning; Differential didactic contract; Teacher practical epistemology
IntroductionIn physical education (PE), as in many other school subjects, an increasing volume of gender studies over the past years have recognised that pedagogical practices reproduce gendered aspects of the cultural heritage of societies (e.g. Davisse & Louveau, 1998;Ennis, 1999;Erraïs, 2002;Evans, Davies, & Penney, 1996;Flintoff & Scraton, 2006;Kirk, 2010;Larsson, Fagrell, & Redelius, 2009;Penney, 2002;Wright, 1997). In this paper we focus on the relationships between day-to-day school PE and physical culture in Tunisia, with special attention paid to the gendered content taught and learned. With a departure in the French didactique research tradition (Amade-Escot, 2006) of Joint Action Studies in Didactics (JASD) (Ligozat, 2011), the study seeks to understand how teachers and students co-construct both
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Pour Perrenoud (2002, p. 48), deux concepts sont nécessaires pour définir le curriculum : « l'un pour penser les parcours effectifs de formation des individus scolarisés, l'autre Curriculum et construction différentielle des savoirs selon le genre en EPS Questions Vives, n° 22 | 2015
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