Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling

Basing her discussion on observations made from her personal experiences with a physical education class in a public school in the New Zealand city of Auckland that was populated primarily by indigenous Maori and Pacific Island immigrant students who are frequently stereotyped as naturally athletic but nonacademic, Fitzpatrick (U. of Auckland, New Zealand) explores how health and physical education can serve as a site of learning and empowerment for marginalized youth as well as sites that are fraught with narrow, gendered, and racialized conceptions of the body, health, and physicality. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Katie Fitzpatrick is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests include critical approaches to health and physical education and how urban youth live articulations of gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality. Dr. Fitzpatrick has her PhD in education.