113 Frank Kennedy Centre
Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2
Phone: (204) 272-1699
Fax: (204) 474-7634
E-mail: leanne.petherick@umanitoba.ca
Education:
PhD, University of Toronto, Department of Exercise Science, Faculty of Physical and Health Education
M.P.E., Memorial University of Newfoundland, School of Human Kinetics and Recreation
B.Kin. (Hons). McMaster University, Faculty of Kinesiology
Courses Taught:
PHED 3710 Active Health and Human Potential
PHED 2720 Developmental Games and Activities
Research:
Broadly speaking, my research program examines cycles of knowledge production in physical education and health promotion focusing on the development and translation of ideas about the body, children/youth and contemporary health culture. More specifically, my research investigates the diverse social, cultural and material conditions mediating individual experiences of physical activity, sport and health and how these experiences are impacted by the emergence of new social health imperatives, particular those that centre around body weight, shape and size.
Publications/Proceedings:
Petherick, L. & Beausoleil, N. (submitted). Obesity Panic, Body Surveillance and Stigmatization: Elementary Teachers’ Response to Obesity Messaging. In D. McPhail, W. Mitchinsen, & J. Ellison (Eds.), Obesity in Canada: Historical and Critical Perspectives.
Petherick, L. (2011). Producing the Young Biocitizen: Secondary School Students Negotiation of Learning in Physical Education. Sport, Education and Society
Card, A., & Petherick, L. (2008). “Fitting” into the Agenda. The legitimacy of the health agenda in Physical Education. Symposium 2008: Post-Confederation Education Reform: From Rhetoric to Reality. Conference Proceedings. Memorial University
Petherick, L. (2008). Curriculum Pedagogy and Embodied Experience: The Reproduction of Health Discourse in Grade 9 Health and Physical Education.
Donnelly, P. & Petherick, L. (2006). Worker’s Playtime?: Child Labour in the sporting spectrum. In D. McArdle & R. Giulianotti (Eds.), Sport and Civil Liberties in Contemporary Society. London: Frank Cass.
Presentations
Petherick, L. & Beausoleil, N., & McCloy, C. (2012). Biopedagogies and Health: Localized and Cultural Knowledge and School-Based Health Promotion. American Education Research Association. Vancouver, British Columbia. April 12-17.
Petherick, L. & Beausoleil, N., & McCloy, C. (2012). Moving Beyond Biopedagogy to Embrace Regional and Cultural Components of Health: The Unique and Privileged Position of the ‘Critical’ Physical Educator. Canadian University Professors Conference, CUPR/PHE Canada. Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 10-12.
Hulburt, J., Loucks-Atkinson, A., LeFort, S. & Petherick, L. (2012). Biopsychosocial Factors Influencing Physical Activity Participation Among People with Chronic Pain
American College of Sports Medicine, May 30-June 2.
Petherick, L. (2011). Bodily (Dis)satisfaction. An International Symposium Speaks the Unspoken. Masculinities, Bodies and Body Image. Ottawa, Ontario June, 6-8.
Beausoleil, N., Petherick, L., & McCloy, C. (2010). Research on Body Image in the School Environment. National Conference on Body Image, Breaking the Mold, Breaking the Silence. Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 4-6.
Morrison, M., Beausoleil, N., Petherick, L., & McCloy, C. (2010). Dialogue and Drawing the Body. A look into the narratives of children. National Conference on Body Image, Breaking the Mold, Breaking the Silence. Halifax, Nova Scotia, November 4-6.
Petherick, L. (2010). VANCO: Intellectual Muscle. Dialogues from the 2010 Games.
Petherick, L. (2009). Resisting the Saviour Subjectivity and Rethinking Health Moralisms: Physical Educators’ Negotiation of Healthy Active Living. Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Ottawa, Ontario, May 22-24.
Curriculum Material
Body Image Network Resource Kit (2009). Healthy Bodies Come in Different Shapes and Sizes. Curriculum Resource for Newfoundland and Labrador Elementary Curriculum Grade 2 – 4. Department of Education, Newfoundland and Labrador. [writing team]
Active for Life. Student Portfolio (2008). Newfoundland and Labrador Physical Education Curriculum Support. Thompson Educational Publishing. [writing team]
Health and Physical Education Evaluation Board Report (2003). Ontario Physical and Health Education Association. [principal writer]
Research Groups:
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba
Qualitative Research Group, University of Manitoba
International Critical Obesity Network
Children’s Program Affiliation
Part of my academic appointment centres around research and pedagogical capacity building through the University of Manitoba’s Children’s Programs, housed in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management. With a focus on exploring experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate students, mentoring graduate students interested in youth health, physical activity and/or recreation, the goal of my academic connection to the Children’s Programs is to facilitate and build research capacity both within the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management specifically, as well as across the University more broadly, in the development of top-notch children’s programming.
Graduate Student Supervision
I am interested in supervising students who are wanting to think past the dominant ideas of children and young people’s involvement in physical activity, school experiences and health. Examining school health policies and university student-athlete experiences are two additional programs within my current research portfolio. Using critical sociological and pedagogical approaches, I aspire to mentor graduate students with interests in:
- Children’s Physical Activity and Health
- Physical Education, Health Education, Educational policy and pedagogy
- Health promotion in general and health promotion in schools
- Comprehensive school health/health promoting school initiatives
- Student-athletes and health, student-athletes and the body
- Girls and women’s experiences of physical activity, exercise, sport
- Re-imagining possibilities of moving bodies in physical education
