Chicago Press Research Articles

Enacting a new curriculum: Chile's social uprising and the reshaping of physical education

ABSTRACT The relationship between society and schools is deeply interconnected. One of the primary ways societies exerts influence on education is through policy, especially curriculum reform, which reflects social values and shapes the educational framework. In the field of physical education, numerous examples highlight the complexities of reforming and enacting new curricula. This study builds on that literature, examining how societal changes and educational policies inform curriculum practices in contemporary contexts. Using a heuristic framework, we investigate the enactment of a new PE curriculum within the context of Chile’s post-social uprising curriculum reform [Evans, V., Aldous, D., & Penney, D. (2024). Embodying policy work: An exploration of contexts, actions and meanings towards new possibilities for physical education teacher education (PETE). Sport, Education and Society, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2024.2398614]. A 14-month mini-ethnographic design [Fusch, P. I., Fusch, G. E., & Ness, L. R. (2017). How to conduct a mini-ethnographic case study: A guide for novice researchers. The Qualitative Report, 22(3), 923–941. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2017.2580] was employed, divided into three phases: (a) familiarization with the context, (b) visiting and experiencing the context and (c) reflecting on the findings. Data were generated through reflective diaries kept during the fieldwork (i.e. second phase; [Emerson, R. M., Fretz, R. I., & Shaw, L. L. (2011). Writing ethnographic fieldnotes (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press]) and analyzed using a six-phase reflexive thematic analysis [Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2022). Thematic analysis: A practical guide. SAGE]. Three key themes were generated from the data analysis: (a) Navigating the Intersection of Comprehensive Pedagogies and the Chilean Sociocultural Context, (b) Exploring the Viability of Comprehensive Pedagogies in Chile: Opportunities and Challenges and (c) ‘Disoñando’ Another Physical Education for Chile: Educational Possibilities from Comprehensive Pedagogies. This study exemplifies the challenges and opportunities of enacting a new curriculum in a Latin American context. While educators’ views of physical education may align with the curriculum’s aims, their capacity to adapt pedagogical practices to these reforms is crucial. The findings emphasize the importance of equipping Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Educators and Pre-Service Teachers with the necessary resources and support to adjust their practices to new curricular guidelines. Future research should prioritize teachers’ perspectives to understand how to facilitate their adaptation to these evolving policies.

The channels of student activism how the left and right are winning (and losing) in campus politics today By Amy J.Binder and Jeffrey L.Kidder, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 224. Paperback $25.00. ISBN 9780226819877

The channels of student activism how the left and right are winning (and losing) in campus politics today By Amy J.Binder and Jeffrey L.Kidder, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 224. Paperback $25.00. ISBN 9780226819877

Review of The Hittites. By Damien Stone

The Hittites. By Damien Stone. Lost Civilizations. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Pp. 188, illus. $25, £18. [Distributed by University of Chicago Press.]

Solvable. How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again, by SusanSolomon (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2024)

Solvable. How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again, by SusanSolomon (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2024)

Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending. By Ann Southworth. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 336p. $99.00 cloth, $32.50 paper

Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending. By Ann Southworth. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 336p. $99.00 cloth, $32.50 paper

“I Crossed My Own Line, But Here is What I do”: The Moral Transgressions of Sustainable Fashion Consumers and Their Use of Alternating Moral Practices as a Cognitive-Dissonance-Reducing Strategy

AbstractDrawing on the notion of ethical subjectivity (Foucault, in Fruchaud, Lorenzini (eds) Discourse and truth and parrēsia. The University of Chicago Press, 1983; Foucault, in Rabinow (ed) Essential works of Foucault 1954–84, The New Press, 1997), cognitive dissonance theory (Festinger, A theory of cognitive dissonance, Stanford University Press, 1957) and transgressive behaviours (Jenks, Transgression, Routledge, 2003), this research addresses the empirical question of how regular consumers of sustainable fashion overcome cognitive dissonance when they transgress their own code of conduct in sustainable fashion consumptionscapes. We utilize a top-down thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, Qual Res Psychol 3:77–101, 2006) of 20 semi-structured existential-phenomenological interviews (Cherrier, in Harrison, Newholm, Shaw (eds) The ethical consumer, SAGE Publications, 2005) and depict a novel, behavioural-level, practice-based cognitive-dissonance-reducing strategy that we term the strategy of alternating moral practices. We demonstrate this dissonance-reducing strategy to be more than just a withdrawal from the value systems attributed to sustainable fashion consumption, either temporary or permanent. Rather, regular consumers of sustainable fashion demonstrate hands-on efforts to find ways of doing that manifest an alternative ethical behaviour. This strategic action is, in turn, held to be enhancing the ethical subjectivities of the consumers. Theoretical discussions of the relationship between these expanded ethical subjectivities and their host consumptionscapes are provided. Using this new approach to understanding transgressive behaviours in the market for sustainable fashion, a range of directions for future research are suggested.

A diverting quarter century? Evidence-based police-led diversion 25 years on

It is more than 25 years since Lawrence Sherman delivered his ‘Ideas in American Policing’ lecture on ‘evidence-based policing’ for the US Police Foundation. The original work [Sherman LW (1998) Evidence-Based Policing. Ideas in American Policing. Washington, DC: Police Foundation], Sherman’s equally seminal study on ‘preventing crime’ [Sherman LW, Gottfredson D, MacKenzie D, et al. (1997) Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising. Washington, DC: Office of Justice Programs] and the subsequent development of evidence-based policing in the ‘Triple T’ [Sherman LW (2013) The rise of evidenced-based policing: targeting, testing and tracking. In: Tonry M (ed.) Crime and Justice in America 1975–2025. Chicago: University of Chicago Press] have been immensely influential as well as, for some, controversial. In 1998, Sherman challenged scholars, practitioners and policymakers to use the ‘best available evidence’ to guide policy and practice. He then posed four questions: ‘What is it? What is new about it? How does it apply to a specific example of police practice? How can it be institutionalized?’. Taking the lead from Sherman's questions, this contribution to the 25-year anniversary collection focuses on one example – police-led diversion – to illustrate the development and challenges of institutionalizing evidence-based policing since 1998.

Coming together for a cause - Benjamin Abrams, The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2023, 307 p.)

Coming together for a cause - Benjamin Abrams, The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2023, 307 p.)

Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought. By David Myer Temin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 288p. $99.00 cloth, $32.50 paper. - Indigenous Peoples and Borders. Edited by Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. 384p. $114.95 cloth, $30.95 paper.

Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought. By David Myer Temin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 288p. $99.00 cloth, $32.50 paper. - Indigenous Peoples and Borders. Edited by Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. 384p. $114.95 cloth, $30.95 paper.

Matthew Daniel Eddy. Media and the Mind: Art, Science & Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 512. $65.00 (cloth).

Matthew Daniel Eddy. Media and the Mind: Art, Science & Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp. 512. $65.00 (cloth).

Pictures and the past: Media, memory, and the specter of fascism in postmodern art By AlexanderBigman, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 256. £26.97(hbk)

Pictures and the past: Media, memory, and the specter of fascism in postmodern art By AlexanderBigman, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2024. pp. 256. £26.97(hbk)

Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory By Eric L.Santner, University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 256. $75.00 (hardcover), $25.00 (paperback), $24.99 (ebook)

Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory By Eric L.Santner, University of Chicago Press. 2022. pp. 256. $75.00 (hardcover), $25.00 (paperback), $24.99 (ebook)

The Future of Humanity—From Global Civilization to Great Civilization By ZhouyingJin, Chicago: Intellect, the University of Chicago Press. 2022. 2nd ed. Translated by Lane Jennings and Ying Bai. 338 pp of text + references (no index)

The Future of Humanity—From Global Civilization to Great Civilization By ZhouyingJin, Chicago: Intellect, the University of Chicago Press. 2022. 2nd ed. Translated by Lane Jennings and Ying Bai. 338 pp of text + references (no index)

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy, by TeresaGhilarducci (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2024), pp. 260

Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy, by TeresaGhilarducci (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2024), pp. 260

Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality. By Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 280p. $99.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality. By Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024. 280p. $99.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

The perils of cybersecurity regulation

AbstractCybersecurity is a major U.S. policy issue with a sizable coalition advocating for greater government intervention due to perceived information challenges. Most proposals, however, do not assess whether the prescription actually improves the transmission of relevant knowledge and appropriately channels motivations towards producing socially optimal cybersecurity. In fact, knowledge and incentive problems associated with regulatory regimes may imperil the market’s ability to innovate, which is critical due to the dynamics of cyberspace. I employ Israel Kirzner’s (University of Chicago Press, 1985) market process framework to investigate these regulatory perils, highlighting analogous policies that have resulted in worse information security outcomes. Incorrect policy prescriptions, regime uncertainty, procedural rigidity, increased barriers to entry, and perverse incentives are among the leading threats to cybersecurity market entrepreneurialism from state intervention.

Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word. Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World. London, University of Chicago Press 2022

Pamela H. Smith, From Lived Experience to the Written Word. Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World. London, University of Chicago Press 2022

Trade‐Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, Third Edition, by HaroldWinter (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2023), pp. 193

Trade‐Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning, Third Edition, by HaroldWinter (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2023), pp. 193

Power of movement capability

ABSTRACT This conceptual paper takes a departure in the concept of powerful knowledge, developed by Young, M., & Muller, J. (2013. On the powers of powerful knowledge. Review of Education, 1(3), 229–250. https://doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3017). Powerful knowledge can in short be described as knowledge that people need to understand and change the world. The aim is to examine when movement capability, as theorized through empirical research, becomes powerful. To delineate our perspective on knowledge, the concept of knowledge and knowing as theorized by Polanyi, M. (1962. Personal knowledge. University of Chicago Press) and (Carlgren, I. (2020). Powerful knowns and powerful knowings. Journal of Curriculum Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2020.1717634) is outlined, showing that movement capability comprises ways of knowing which are neither merely physical (the doing) nor mental (the thinking), but rather a fusion of both. With a widened understanding of powerful knowledge as including the knowing involved in the doings, we illustrate through empirical examples from previous and ongoing research, and how physical education can offer students possibilities to develop powerful movement capabilities.

Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or At Least Respectably Wrong), by Jeremy G.Weber (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2024), pp. 1–185

Statistics for Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or At Least Respectably Wrong), by Jeremy G.Weber (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2024), pp. 1–185