When: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWhere: Online
Join us for the first in a series of four webinars organised by the Childhood, Law & Policy Network. This series will explore social issues relating to children and their bodies. The first webinar will focus on children’s voices and experiences in sports and physical education.
Professor Déirdre Ní Chróinín (Head of Department of Arts Education and Physical Education, Mary Immaculate College)
Topic: ‘Growing voice in primary physical education’
Despite compelling evidence of the value of student voice in enhancing children’s experiences, student voice remains an atypical practice in primary physical education (Iannucci and Parker, 2022; Cardiff et al, 2023). I will share stories of primary teachers and students learning how to use student voice as part of their everyday practice of primary physical education. Using children’s and teacher’s testimonies, the potential for student voice to promote more meaningful experiences for all children in physical education will be explored.
Dr Bonnie Pang (Senior Lecturer in Sport and Deputy Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research, the University of Bath)
Topic: ‘Researching ethnic minority children’s experiences of sport’
In an increasingly complex world marked by globalisation, the role of sport in everyday life is undergoing change, as people with different orientations to movement and bodies, especially its dominant Western forms, negotiate their relationships to it. This talk is based on my research with children from British Chinese backgrounds their experiences in sport, as a lens to explore broader psycho-social and cultural issues around subjectivities, migration and cultural norming.
Dr Suzanne Everley (Reader in the Sociology of Physical Education, Activity and Health, the University of Chichester)
Topic: ‘Children’s Voices in Sport – How are they listened to and where is the fear?’
Recent reporting on negative experiences of children such as in the Sheldon Report (2021) and the Whyte Review (2022) have led to calls for the centralisation of children’s voices in sport. Organisations such as ‘Play their way’ actively advocate listening to, and empowering children in their own playing environments. From work conducted for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and English Football Association I will share perspectives of children, welfare officers, coaches and parents regarding how sport is experienced and how this can be practically enhanced through the expression of children’s voices to create positive, more fulfilling, playing environments.
**Please note joining details will be sent the day before the event.