Social Justice and Intersectionality in Sport, Physical Education, Physical Activity, Sport-for-All and the Pedagogy of Health
Keywords:
Social Justice, Intersectionality, Pedagogy of Health, Gender, Race, EthnicityAbstract
Sport, Sport Pedagogy and Education for Social Justice focus on and highlight social inequalities and injustice among socially disadvantaged communities. Our text delves deep and critically analyses issues of social justice and sport relevant to health and public health; along with physical activity, these are issues that concern all young people from social disadvantaged communities, for example, the ones of particular racial backgrounds. In parallel, this text explores and discusses the significance of employing Intersectionality in current and future sport research. Intersectionality engages with sport, physical activity and pedagogy of health and it simultaneously appears ideal to promote the principles of social justice and to thoroughly explain the complicated relationships that exist and intersect in social issues [e.g. race, gender and social class]; further, Intersectionality influences human action and suggests sport and physical activity as a vehicle for breaking the barriers for socially disadvantaged young people, such as people of color and/or of various racial backgrounds(e.g. Black, Asian Ethnic Minorities/BAME).
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