"Physical Education-Curriculum 2000": Programs of Implementing
Dr. Rosa Diketmuller, Austria
Feminist
Approaches
in Physical Education for Girls and Consequences for Physical Education
Teacher Education Program- the Austrian Example. The Austrian situation
in physical education is influenced by a completely new curriculum, which
will be implemented in September 2000 and a new curriculum for teacher
education for physical education at the universities, which has to be
amended
within the next two years. From a feminist point of view this is an
excellent
opportunity to develop holistic strategies to promote sports and physical
education for girls.
Therefore a group of female experts (teachers
as well as sport pedagogysts) are constructing guidelines, based on
feminist
theories, for the physical education of girls. The main problem, as we
see it, it not the lack of feminist theories but the practical
implementation
in schools, because the teachers do not know how to integrate feminist
approaches within their current practices. So it is necessary to enlarge
the curriculum with a commentary, where models of good practices are given
and explained. Only in this way is it possible to make teachers sensitive
to the specific needs of girls. On the other hand it is necessary to
integrate
feminist approaches in teacher education. How women, and gender, studies
will get an increasing function within teacher education at Vienna's
Institute
of Sports Science will be discussed too.
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