Social Justice Pedagogies in Health and Physical Education (PDF)

Göran Gerdin is Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden where he is responsible for the Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programme. His research focuses on how issues of gender, bodies, spaces and (dis)pleasures shape students' participation, enjoyment and identities in school Health and Physical Education (HPE). He is on the editorial board for the journal Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education and a convenor in the Research in Sport Pedagogy network for the European Educational Research Association (EERA).

Wayne Smith is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research and major teaching contributions are in critical pedagogy in Physical Education (PE) and skill learning (how we learn to become skillful). His recent work also focuses on how we learn, both consciously and sub-consciously, in and through our physical engagement in play.

Rod Philpot is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Social Work, at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where he is programme leader for the Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Education. His research and teaching focuses on critical justice pedagogies in diverse sport, physical education and health contexts.

Katarina Schenker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research interests concern PETE and the inclusion and exclusion of children and youth in sport and in the Swedish school subject Physical Education and Health (PEH). Additionally, she researches the relationship between sport and social entrepreneurship from a Swedish sport policy perspective.

Kjersti Mordal Moen is Professor in Physical Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her research field is PETE, practicum in PETE, as well as the school subject PE. She is