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  • Should you buy? Neo-liberalism, neo-HPE and your neo-job

    Author(s)
    Macdonald, Doune
    Hay, Peter
    Williams, Benjamin
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Williams, Benjamin
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    Have you noticed a proliferation of commercial services and programmes to help schools do Health and Physical Education (HPE), school sport, or physical activity better? It is no accident that more and more businesses want to promote their product to schools and that schools are seeking a "competitive edge" by purchasing these new products. This paper addresses the socio-political conditions, reflecting the ideology of neo-liberalism, that have shaped the rise of a market philosophy in education. HPE and school sport, important educational spaces for the production of healthy, self-managing citizens, are ripe for the ...
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    Have you noticed a proliferation of commercial services and programmes to help schools do Health and Physical Education (HPE), school sport, or physical activity better? It is no accident that more and more businesses want to promote their product to schools and that schools are seeking a "competitive edge" by purchasing these new products. This paper addresses the socio-political conditions, reflecting the ideology of neo-liberalism, that have shaped the rise of a market philosophy in education. HPE and school sport, important educational spaces for the production of healthy, self-managing citizens, are ripe for the intervention of market forces. Often commercial providers have no educational expertise yet, through their co-option of the "right" language, they find themselves teaching a simplified or populist version of HPE. This ultimately raises the question, "What is the value of HPE teachers' expertise to 'trade' in the education market place?" Time for a neo-job?
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Physical Education New Zealand
    Volume
    41
    Publisher URI
    http://www.penz.org.nz/default.asp
    Subject
    Sociology of Education
    Physical Education and Development Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/53185
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