Abstract

SILVA, Paula; GOMES, Paula Botelho  and  GOELLNER, Silvana. Gender relations in physical education’s classes - students’ perceptions. Rev. Port. Cien. Desp. [online]. 2008, vol.8, n.3, pp.396-405. ISSN 1645-0523.

The purpose of this study was to analyse how students, boys and girls, observe and classify the gender relations in the Physical Education (PE) mixed classes. The analysed data came by from 60 semi-structured interviews from Oporto secondary school students (30 boys and 30 girls). An inductive analysis and interpretation of the data was carried out following the information treatment by the program QSRNVivo. The results suggest that boys and girls analyse differently the gender relations in PE classes. Half of the female students understand that the relations are not good, expressing some complains about their colleagues’ behaviours and attitudes which bother them offend them and lead them to a disinvestment in the PE activities.

Keywords : gender relations; physical education; mixed classes.

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