Lisette Burrows
BPhEd. BA, PGDip (Education), PhD
Tel 64 3 479-8389
Email lisette.burrows@otago.ac.nz
Background
Lisette Burrows is an Associate Professor in Health and Physical Education Curriculum and Teaching at the School of Physical Education, and has been a member of staff since 1991. After completing her undergraduate and PGDip Arts (with distinction) degrees at University of Otago, she obtained her doctorate from University of Wollongong. She is on the editorial Boards of Sport Education and Society, Sociology of Sport Journal, Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal and editor of the refereed section of New Zealand’s Physical Educator. She is an executive board member of Physical Education New Zealand (PENZ) and member of the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) and the British Educational Research Association (BERA).
Research interests
Lisette’s broad research interests are in the social construction of health and physical education curriculum and the place and meaning of health and physical activity in young peoples' lives. Her doctoral work was a critical examination of the ways developmental discourses have infused teaching and curriculum in physical education over time. She has published work on gender, ethnicity and disability in school-based physical education and young New Zealanders constructions of 'health' and 'fitness'. Her current research focuses on critical interrogations of obesity discourse and understanding the impact new health imperatives have on young people’s sense of their bodies and 'selves'.
Dr. Burrows' work has been funded by the Ministry of Education, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, University of Otago, Australian Research Council, Sport and Recreation New Zealand, Social Science and Humanities Research Council and Fulbright New Zealand.
Selected recent publications
Burrows, L., McLachalan, F. & Spowart, L. (2011) The dissertation, in Armour, K. and Macdonald, D. (Eds) (2011) Research Methods in Physical Education and Youth Sport, Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-61885-4R.
Burrows, L. & McCormack, J. (2011) Sporting fat: Youth sport and the obesity ‘epidemic’, in Dagkas, S. and Armour, K. (Eds), Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport, Routledge, ISBN: 978-0-415-57803-5
Burrows, L. & McCormack, J. (2011) School culture meets sport: A case study in New Zealand, European Physical Education Review, 17(3) pp.301 - 312. DOI: 10.1177/1356336X11416732.
Sinkinson, M & Burrows, L. (2011). 'Reframing Health Education in New Zealand/Aotearoa schools, Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education 3(3/4), pp. 53-70.
Burrows, L. (2011) "I’m proud to be me”: Health, Community and Schooling", Policy Futures in Education, 9(3), 341-352. Doi:10.2304/pfie.2011.0.3.341.
Burrows, L. (2011). Thinking with attitude, in S. Brown (Ed.) Issues and Controversies in Physical Education: Policy, Power and Pedagogy. Pearson.
Burrows, L. (2010) Kiwi kids are weetbix kids: Body matters in childhood. Sport, Education and Society.
Burrows, L. (2010) Push play every day: New Zealand children’s constructions of health and physical activity. In M. O’Sullivan & A. McPhail (eds), Young People’s Voice in Physical Education and Youth Sport. London: Routledge.
Burrows, L. (2010) ‘Making castles in the sand’: community contexts and physical culture. In J. Wright & D. Macdonald (eds), Living physical activity: Young people, physical activity and the everyday. London: Routledge.
Spowart, L., Burrows, L. & Shaw, S. (2010) ‘I just eat, sleep and dream of surfing’: When surfing meets motherhood, Sport and Society
Burrows, L., Wright, J. &McCormack, J. (2009) Dosing up on food and physical activity: New Zealand children’s ideas about health. Health Education Journal
Burrows, L. (2009) ‘This is how we do it’: Pedagogising families in obesity discourse. Childrenz Issues
Burrows, L. (2009). Pedagogizing families through obesity discourse. In J. Wright & V. Harwood (eds). Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’ Governing Bodies. New York/London: Routlege.
Burrows, L. (2009) Discursive dilemmas in New Zealand’s Health and Physical Education curriculum. In M. Dinan (ed). Health and Physical Education: Contemporary issues for curriculum in Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Burrows, L. (2008). “Fit, fast and skinny”: New Zealand school students ‘talk’ about health. Journal of Physical Education New Zealand 41 (3), 26-36.
Zink, R. & Burrows, L. (2008). 'Is what you see what you get?’: The production of knowledge in-between the indoors and outdoors in outdoor education. Physical Education Pedagogy, 13(3)
Burrows, L. & Wright, J. (2007). Prescribing practices: Shaping healthy children in schools. International Journal of Children's Rights, 15, 83-98.
Wright, J. & Burrows, L. (2006). Re-conceiving ability in physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 11(2), 275-292.
Zink, R. & Burrows, L. (2006), 'Foucault on camp: What does his work offer outdoor education?’ The Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 6(1) 39-50.
Burrows, L. & Wright, J. (2004). The good life: New Zealand children’s perspectives of health and self. Sport, Education and Society, 9(2), 193-205.
Burrows, L. & Wright, J. (2004). The discursive production of childhood, identity and health. In Evans, J., Davies, B. & Wright, J. (Eds), Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of education and Physical Culture. London: Routledge (pp. 83-95).
Burrows, L. (2004). Understanding and investigating cultural perspectives in physical education. In Wright, J., MacDonald, D. & Burrows, L. (Eds), Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education. London: Routledge. pp. 105-109.
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Last updated 26 March 2012
