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Exploring Social Identities and Social Inequalities in Physical Education

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The intent of this activity is for in-service physical education teachers to engage in an activity (one of hopefully many) that explicitly address sociocultural issues (e.g., social identity, inequalities, justice, etc.) in the physical education context.

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Walton-Fisette, J.L. (2016). Exploring Social Identities and Social Inequalities in Physical Education. In: Dowdy, J.K., Gao, Y. (eds) Pump It Up. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-612-5_18

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