Reading material

A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.

Compulsory reading list

  1. Fitzpatrick, K. (2019). What happened to critical pedagogy in physical education? An analysis of key critical work in the field. European Physical Education Review, 25(4), 1128-1145.
  2. Ruiz, B. M., & Fernandez-Balboa, J. M. (2005). Physical education teacher educators’ personal perspectives regarding their practice of critical pedagogy. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 24(3), 243-264.
  3. Giroux, H. A. (2020). On critical pedagogy. Bloomsbury Publishing.

List for further reading

  1. Tinning, R. (2002). Toward a “modest pedagogy”: Reflections on the problematics of critical pedagogy. Quest, 54(3), 224-240.
  2. Philpot, R. (2016). Physical education initial teacher educators’ expressions of critical pedagogy (ies) Coherency, complexity or confusion?. European Physical Education Review, 22(2), 260-275.
  3. Smyth, J. (2011). Critical pedagogy for social justice (Vol. 2). A&C Black.