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Racial Representation in Physical Education Textbooks for Secondary Schools

Author(s) -

María Inés Táboas Pais,

Ana Rey Cao

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244015574972

Subject(s) - psychology , physical education , race (biology) , social psychology , prejudice (legal term) , ethnic group , competence (human resources) , representation (politics) , mathematics education , developmental psychology , gender studies , sociology , politics , anthropology , political science , law

The purpose of this article is to examine the representation ofrace through images that are published in Spanish physical education textbooks forsecondary schools and to offer an insight into students’ beliefs related to racialstereotypes in physical education. The sample was composed of 2,583 images and 87secondary school pupils. The analysis was carried out through the elaboration of an adhoc coding scheme. The results showed that people whose appearance is similar to thein-group predominate. The kind of physical activity, the field, space, and level ofcompetence vary according to race. The textbooks analyzed in this study engender astigmatized vision of racial diversity, and the images reproduce and reinforce racialprejudice

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