The course explores how physical education, friluftsliv/outdoor life, disability and difference have been covered historically, culturally and by society. The course focuses on discussions, values, educational context and context of experience regarding 'location/place', 'time' and 'space', 'indoors' and 'outdoors'. The course consists of two parts: Discourses and Values (5 credits) and Educational Context and Context of Experience (5 credits). The course covers discourses and values in an institutional setting regarding policy making, culture and society, as well as ethical issues, conflict of values and power structures. In addition, the course explores how people with different qualifications experience, are influenced by and impact on contexts, and how various contexts have been defined culturally and theoretically and made available/unavailable for the individual and groups. The course is taught in English.

Knowledge
The students should be familiar with core discourses and key conflicts of values and power structures in different contexts of experience.
The students should know how people are influenced by and impact on location and space, indoors and outdoors and how these interchanges are regarded in a historical and cultural perspective.

Skills
The students must be able to identify and analyze discourses and values in different practical contexts.
The students must be able to analyze and discuss how location/place and space have been defined, applied, changed, valued and experienced.

General Knowledge
The students must be able to present and discuss conflicts of values and power structures in relation to policy making and practical contexts.

The course consists of lectures, individual work, group work and master's seminar. The students must show initiative during the course and master's seminar. The students shall complete an individual analysis of supplementary literature on a relevant topic.

The students will work on four texts to be included in the course folder. Individual essay (3000 words) based on supplementary literature. Graded A-F.

CORE READING 2014-2015

MA431 Policy Making and Practical Context (10 ects)
(Inclusive TEOS)

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PART 1: Discourse and values (5ects):
Bay, A-H., Strömblad, P. & B. Bengtsson (2010). An introduction to diversity, inclusion and citizenship in Scandinavia. In: B. Bengtsson, P. Strömblad & A-H. Bay (Eds.), Diversity, inclusion and citizenship in Scandinavia. (pp. 1-18). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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Gough, D. (2007). Weight of evidence: A framework for the appraisal of the quality and relevance of evidence: Applied and practice-based research. Special Edition of Research Papers in Education, 22(2), 213-228.
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Gruenewald, D. (2008). The best of both worlds: A critical pedagogy of place. Environmental Education Research, 14(3), 308-324.
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Kjørholt, A-T. (2013). Childhood studies: The ethics of an encounter. In: H. Fossheim (Ed.), Cross-cultural child research: Ethical issues. (pp. 17-44). [Oslo]: The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees.
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Løvlie, L. (2002). The Promise of bildung. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 36(3), 467-486.
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Telhaug A. O., Mediås, O. A. & Aasen, P. (2006). The Nordic model in education: Education as part of the political system in the last 50 years. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 59(3), 245-283.
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Wattchow, B. & Brown, M. (2011). The case for place. In: B. Wattchow & M. Brown, A Pedagogy of place: Outdoor education for a changing world. (pp. 51-76). Monash University Publishing.
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PART II: Educational Context and Context of Experience (5 ects):

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Atenco, M., Beal, B. & Wilson, C. (2009). The distinction of risk: Urban skateboarding, street habitus and the construction of hierarchical gender relations. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, 1(1), 3-20.
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Augestad, P. (2003). The architecture of the gymnasium and corporeal education: The gymnasium in the Norwegian physical training, 1889-1930. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 20(3), 58-76.
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Christensen, O. (2008). “Boards with the World”: Youthful aproaches to landscapes and mediascapes. In: M. Gutman & N. de Coninck-Smith (Eds.), Designing modern childhoods: History, space, and the material culture of children. (pp. 171-190). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
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Eichberg, H. (2010). Outdoor activities and landscaping: Understanding natures in the plural. In: H. Eichberg (ed.), Bodily democracy: Towards a philosophy of sport for all. (pp. 80-101). London & New York: Routledge.
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Gibson, J.J. (1986). The ecological approach to visual perception. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Chapter 2 and 3, pages 16-46:
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Kozlovsky, R. (2008). Adventure playgounds and postwar reconstruction. In: M. Gutman & N. de Coninck-Smith (Eds.), Designing modern childhoods: History, space, and the material culture of children. (pp. 171-190). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
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Noble, G. & Watkins, M. (2003). So, how did Bourdieu learn to play tennis? Habitus, consciousness and habituation. Cultural Studies, 17(3/4), 520-538.
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Pink, S. (2009). Principles of sensory ethnography: Perception, place, knowing, memory and imagination. In: S. Pink, Doing sensory ethnography. (pp. 23-43). London: Sage.
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Ray, S. J. (2009). Risking bodies in the wild: The "Corporeal Unconscious" of American adventure culture. Journal of Sport & Social Issue, 33(3), 257-284.
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Sandseter, E. B. H. (2009). Characteristics of risky play. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 9(1), 3-21.
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Tuan, Y-F. (1977). Introduction, experiential perspective & space, place, and the child. In: Y-F. Tuan, Space and place: The perspective of experience. (pp. 3-34). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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BOOKS:
Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education. (Kappa Delta Pi lecture series). New York: Macmillan.
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Roberts, J.W. (2012). Beyond learning by doing: Theoretical currents in experiential education. New York: Routledge.
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