Short description:

Bringing together a set of first-person accounts of physical education from the perspectives of disabled children and adults, this book puts disabled people?s voices in the foreground.

Long description:

Bringing together a set of first-person accounts of physical education from the perspectives of disabled children and adults, this book puts disabled people?s voices in the foreground.

The book provides a rich set of case study material that deepens our understanding of the experiences of disabled people and challenges students, researchers, and practitioners to reflect critically upon their own positionality. The first part of the book discusses the ways in which disability has been conceptualized, how the voices of disabled people have sometimes been marginalized, and how nondisability power has historically framed the narratives of disabled people in physical education literature. It also discusses the innovative methods used in this book?such as storytelling through recorded conversations and drawings in addition to more traditional chapter writing?to empower disabled children and adults to act as authors of their own stories. Then the book presents the stories themselves in a variety of written, narrative, and alternative formats, a series of authentic accounts of the lived experiences of disabled people in physical education. Finally, the book concludes with the editors? final thoughts and reflections about this collection of stories that can be used in the classroom to foster dialogue and encourage critical thinking. Importantly, these prompts have been co-constructed between the editors and the disabled people themselves.

This book is essential reading for any course in adapted physical education, physical education, or disability, for any pre- or in-service teacher, instructor, or coach working with disabled people, and for people who experience disability or their families with an interest in education, physical activity, or methods for elevating the voices of disabled people.

Table of Contents:

1. Case-Based Learning and the Physical Education of Disabled Students. 2. Our Methodology for Case-Based Learning and Strategies for Reader Engagement. 3. "I Loved Sports and Physical Activity, but I Hated Physical Education": Lindsay?s Story. 4. Titanium Strides: Conquering Able-Bodied Physical Education with a Prosthetic Leg. 5. The Search for a Medal. 6. The Difference between Mainstream (Inclusive) and Adaptive (Self-Contained) Physical Education Classes. 7. The Empty Promise of "You Can Do Anything". 8. Account of My PE Experiences. 9. Too Loud and Sitting Out. 10. "It?s Not Really an Activity ? That?s Just Having a Beach Ball". 11. A Physical Education Story about Best Friends. 12. The Physical Education Experience through the Eyes of a Teacher with a Disability. 13. An Interview about PE with Carson Jones. 14. Pushing Past Expectations. 15. Autism in the Locker Room. 16. PE and Sports Are Awesome!. 17. Fitness with Fun and Friends. 18. Sports as a Bridge to Success in Life. 19. "I Realize How Utterly Absurd My PE Experience Was". 20. Peer Tutors Are PE Friends. 21. "Forced Inclusion": Inclusion Looks Different for Everyone. 22. Our Reflections and Concluding Thoughts.