School of Human Movement Studies
Associate Professor Michael GARD
BPE Aust. Coll. Physical Ed, MSpSc UNSW, PhD W'gong
Telephone: +6102 6338 4484
Facsimile: +6102 6338 4065
Email: mgard@csu.edu.au
Office: Room 1.14, Allen House (N1)
Profile
Editorial Boards
- Sport, Education and Society
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy
Research
- The social construction of masculinity within professional dance.
- Gender, masculinity and physical education.
- The use, misuse and non-use of dance in school physical education.
- The social and cultural politics of the so-called 'obesity epidemic'
- The shortcomings of biological determinism in all its forms
Teaching
- Curriculum Personal Development, Health and Physical Education studies for primary and early childhood teacher education.
- Creative dance and movement education.
- Functional anatomy.
Professional Membership
- International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry
- Australian Association of Research in Education
- American Educational Research Association
- Australian Teacher Education Association
Publications
Books
Gard, M. (forthcoming) The End of the Obesity Epidemic (London, Routledge).
Gard, M. (2006) Men Who Dance:Aesthetics, Athletics and the Art of Masculinity (New York, Peter Lang).
Gard. M. & Wright, J. (2005) The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality and Ideology (London, Routledge).
Refereed Journal Articles
Gard, M. (2008) Producing little decision makers and goal setters in the age of the obesity crisis, Quest, 60(4), 488-502.
Gard, M. & Fitzgerald, H. (2008) Tackling Murderball: masculinity, disability and the big screen. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2(2), 126-141.
Águila, C., Sicilia-Camacho, A., Tejada, A. J. R., Delgado-Noguera, M. A. & Gard, M. (2008) Postmodern values and leisure in young Spanish university students: an exploratory study, Leisure Sciences, 30(4), 279-282. `
Gard, M. (2008) When a boy’s gotta dance: New masculinities, old pleasures, Sport, Education and Society, 13(2), 181-193.
Zanker, C. & Gard, M. (2008) Fatness, fitness and the moral universe of sport and physical activity, Sociology of Sport Journal, 25(1), 48-65.
Gard, M. (2007) Is the war on obesity a war on children? Childrenz Issues: Journal of the Children’s Issues Centre, 11(2), 20-24.
Gard, M. &Kirk, D.(2007) Obesity discourse and the crisis of faith in disciplinary technology, Utbildning & Demokrati: Tidskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, 16(2), 17-36.
Gard, M. (2006) Why understanding itself is physical education's greatest challenge: a response to Himberg, Teachers College Record, ID Number 12533,7th June, http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=12533
Gard, M. (2006) Neither flower child nor artiste be: aesthetics, ability and physical education, Sport, Education and Society, 11(3),231-241.
Gard, M. (2005) What does 'relevant' physical education mean? Physical Education New Zealand, 38(1), 30-40.
Gard, M. (2005) A reply to Hancox: the problem with medicaland scientific thinking about obesity, Childrenz Issues: Journal of the Children's Issues Centre, 9(1), 37-39.
Gard, M. (2004) Mashing the 'couch potato', Childrenz Issues: Journal of the Children's Issues Centre, 8(1), 17-21.
Gard, M. (2003) Moving and belonging: dance, sport and sexuality, Sex Education, 3(2), 105-118.
Gard, M. (2003) Being someone else: using dance in anti-oppressive teaching, Educational Review, 55(2), 211-223.
Gard, M. & Wright, J. (2001) Managing uncertainty: obesity discourses and physical education in a risk society, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 20(6): 535-549.
Gard, M. (2001) Sport, physical education and country towns: diverse enough?, Education in Rural Australia, 11(2), 19-26.
Gard, M. (2001) Dancing around the 'problem' of boys and dance, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 22(2), 213-225.
Micalos, P. S., Marino, F. E., Tarpenning, K., Kay, D. & Gard, M. (2001) Ammonia and lactate responses to isokinetic arm and leg exercise, Isokinetics and Exercise Science, 9(2-3), 143-149.
Gard, M. & Bradley, B. S. (2000) Getting away with rape: erasure of the psyche in evolutionary psychology, Psychology, Evolution and Gender, 2(3), 313-319.
Gard, M. & Meyenn, R. (2000) Boys, bodies, pleasure and pain: interrogating contact sports in schools, Sport, Education and Society, 5(1), 19-34.
Edited Book Chapters
Gard, M. (2009) Understanding obesity by understanding desire, in: H. Malson & M. Burns (Eds) Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders (London, Routledge).
Gard, M. ( 2009) Friends, enemies and the cultural politics of critical obesity research , in: J. Wright & V. Harwood (Eds) Biopolitics and the ‘Obesity Epidemic’: Governing Bodies (New York, Routledge).
Gard, M. (2008) ‘Couch potatoes’ and ‘wind-up dolls’? A critical assessment of the ethics of youth physical activity research, in: A. L. Smith & S. J. H. Biddle (Eds) Youth Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour: Challenges and Solutions (Champaign, Il., Human Kinetics).
Gard, M. (2006) More art than science? Boys, masculinities and physical education, in: D. Kirk, D. Macdonald & M. O'Sullivan (Eds) Handbook of Physical Education (Thousand Oaks, Sage).
Gard, M. (2005) HPE and the 'obesity epidemic', in: R. Tinning, L. McCuaig & L. Hunter (Eds) Teaching Health and Physical Education in Australian Schools (Frenchs Forest, Pearson Education Australia).
Pickering, S. & Gard, M. (2004) Everybody's business: the privatisation of women's imprisonment, in: S. Pickering & C. Lambert (Eds) Global Issues, Women and Justice (Sydney, Institute of Criminology).
Gard, M. (2004) Desperately seeking certainty: statistics, physical activity and critical inquiry, in: J. Wright, D. Macdonald & L. Burrows (Eds) Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education (London, Routledge).
Gard, M. (2004) Movement, art and culture: problem solving and critical thinking in dance, in: J. Wright, D. Macdonald & L. Burrows (Eds) Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education (London, Routledge).
Gard, M. (2004) An elephant in the room and a bridge too far, or physical education and the 'obesity epidemic', in: J. Evans, B. Davies & J. Wright (Eds) Body Knowledge and Control: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health (London, Routledge).
Gard, M. (2002) What do we do in physical education?, in: R. Kissen (Ed.) Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield).
Gard, M. (2001) "I like smashing people, and I like getting smashed myself": addressing issues of masculinity in physical education and sport, in: W. Martino & R. Meyenn (Eds) What About the Boys?: Issues of Masculinity in Schools (Buckingham, Open University Press).
Reports
Pickering, S., Gard, M. & Richardson, R. (2003) 'We're working with people here": The Impact of the TPV Regime on Refugee Settlement Service Provision in NSW.