Senior Lecturer Jorge Knijnik

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Awards and Recognition
• Selected Publications
• Book Series
• Contact Details

Biography

Dr. Jorge Knijnik is a Senior Lecturer in Personal Development, Health and Physical Education. He was a Primary and Secondary Physical Education teacher in Brazil for several years, focusing his teaching on how boys and girls could play together, breaking gender boundaries. As a social and education worker, Jorge spent considerable time in the slums of Sao Paulo, where there are extensive and systematic human rights violations – including serious child abuse - introducing systematic initiatives to improve sanitation, minimise health problems (including sexuality programs), and promote accessible sport and exercise programs as alternatives from self-destructive or socially dysfunctional behaviours. Jorge has a strong commitment to issues on human rights, gender equity and social justice in sports and society in his broad career. His academic life started in 1992 in Brazil, and he has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sao Paulo, the largest one in South America. At the University of Western Sydney, he is developing in his students a passion and commitment on health and personal development, sports and physical education issues, working with them to improve the quality of PDHPE classes in NSW schools.

Qualifications - PhD (USP, Social Psychology); MA (USP); Bed (USP); Cert.Teaching (USP).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Gender and Embodiment; Game Sense; Sport Sociology; Human Rights in Sport and Physical Education.

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Grants / Current Projects

2009 - Prejudice against Women who practice Martial Arts (with Marco Antonio Ferretti) - CAPES.

2008 - The sport educator and sexual education programs (COSEAS/USP).

2007 - Je ne regrette rien - Zinedine Zidane and the sports masculinities (Mackenzie Research Fund).

2007 - The hero in trouble - (un)making sports masculinities (with Dr. Daryl Adair, University of Technology Sydney) supported by the Fund of Support on Research of Sao Paulo.

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Awards and Recognition

2009 - Building the Gender Equality (United Nations Development Fund for Women; Brazilian National Council Research;Brazilian Ministry of Education).

2008 - Supervisor of the Best Honours Award Student of the Bachelor Program in Physical Education (Mackenzie University, Brazil).

2005 - Supervisor of the Best Honours Award Student of the Bachelor Program in Physical Education (Mackenzie University, Brazil).

2005 - Supervisor of the Best Honours Award Student of the Physical Education Teaching Program (Mackenzie University,Brazil).

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Selected Publications

Books

Knijnik, J.D. (2009) Handebol. Odysseus Editora, Sao Paulo. http://www.odysseuslojas.com.br/agon/handebol.html

Knijnik, J.D (2003). A mulher brasileira e o esporte -seu corpo, sua historia (The Brazilizan Women and the sport - body and history). Sao Paulo, Editora Mackenzie.

Journal Articles

Knijnik, J; Horton, P;Cruz,L (2010). Rhizomatic bodies, gendered waves: transitional femininities in Brazilian Surf   Sport in Society, Volume 13, Issue 7 & 8 September 2010 , pages 1170 - 1185
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926788749~frm=titlelink
Knijnik, J.D.; Casco, P; Knijnik, S.C.; Castro, D (2010).
¿Acción x emoción? El cuerpo generificado y la Educación Física escolar. EF Deportes, Revista Digital - Buenos Aires - Año 15 - Nº 144 -
http://www.efdeportes.com/efd144/o-corpo-genereficado-e-a-educacao-fisica-escolar.htm
  
Melo, V.A.; Knijnik, J.D. (2009) Futebol, cinema e masculinidade:
uma análise de Asa Branca, um Sonho Brasileiro (1981) e Onda Nova (1983)
Soccer, movies and masculinity: an analysis of Asa branca,
um sonho brasileiro (1981) and Onda nova (1983). Revista POrtuguesa de Ciencias do Desporto, vol. 9, nr. 2-3 http://www.fade.up.pt/rpcd/entradaPT.html
 
Moraes, D.S.C.; Knijnik, J.D. (2009). Estudo qualitativo sobre a opinião de atletas juvenis de tênis de campo sobre a sua preparação psicológica para a competição. Psicologia: Teoria e Prática  11(2):97-113 http://www3.mackenzie.br/editora/index.php/ptp/article/viewFile/1663/1225
Souza, J. S. S. & Knijnik, J.D. (2007). A mulher invisível – Gênero e esporte em um dos mais importantes jornais diários do Brasil (The invisible woman: gender and sport in an important newspaper in Brazil). Brazilian Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 21 (1), p.35-48.

Ferreti, M. C., & Knijnik, J. D. (2007). Mulheres podem praticar lutas? Um estudo sobre as representações sociais de lutadoras universitárias (Can women practice fighting? A study on the social representations of the College female fighters). Revista Movimento (Movement Journal), Porto Alegre, v. 13(1), p.18-30.

Marcelino, E. P. & Knijnik, J. D. (2006). A escola vai ao baile? Possíveis relações entre dança e Educação Física na escola. (Does the school go to the party? Possible relationships between dance and physical education in the school). Revista Mackenzie de Educação Física e Esporte (Mackenzie Journal of Physical Education and Sport), Barueri, v. espec, p p. 65-72, .

Marques, L. D., & Knijnik, J.D. (2006). Interfaces entre orientação sexual e Educação Física: reflexões a partir de uma proposta de intervenção na Escola Pública de Ensino Fundamental ciclo II. (Interfaces between sexual orientation and physical education from a proposal at intervention in the Public Elementary School). Lecturas Educación Física y Deportes (digital magazine - www.efdeportes.com), v. 103, pp. 103, .

Santos, S. C., & Knijnik, J. D. (2006). Motivos de adesão à prática de atividade física na vida adulta intermediária. (Adhesion reasons to practice physical activity in the middle age). Revista Mackenzie de Educação Física e Esporte (Mackenzie Journal of Physical Education and Sport), Barueri, v. 5, pp. 23-34, .

Knijnik, J. D. , & Knijnik, S. C. F. (2005). Jogo e Pluralidade Cultural: Estudo exploratório com base nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais de Arte e Educação Física. (Play and cultural plurality: an exploratory study based on the National Curricular Parameters of Art and Physical Education). Revista Brasileira de Educação Física e Esporte (Brazilian Journal of Physical Education and Sport), Brasília, v. 19, pp. 285-293.

Knijnik, J. D. & Knijnik, S.C.F. (2004). Sob o signo de ludens: interfaces entre brincadeira, jogo e os significados do esporte de competição (Under the sign of ludens: interfaces between play, games and the meaning of competition sports). Revista Brasileira de Ciência e Movimento (Brazilian Journal of Science and Movement), Brasília, v.12 (2), pp.103-109.

Knijnik, J.D. (2004). Conceitos básicos para elaboração de processos de ensino e aprendizagem na iniciação à prática do handebol (Basic concepts for the conception of teaching and learning processes in handball initiation). Revista Ludens – Ciências do Desporto,(Ludens Journal- Sport Science), Lisboa, v.17 (4), , pp. 75-81, Apr-Jun.

Knijnik, J.D. (2003. TV Addicts (ou por mais Paulo Freire na Educação Física). Lecturas EF Deportes – digital magazine (www.efdeportes.com). v.9 (62).

Knijnik, J.D. & Pires, R.N. (2002). O jogo, a educação física e a escola: é possível falsear as implicações da teoria piagetiana? (Play, physical education, and school: is it possible to falsely interpret the implications of Piaget’s theory?) Revista Mackenzie de Educação Física e Esporte (Mackenzie Journal of Physical Education and Sport), Barueri, v.1 (1).

Knijnik, J.D., Greguol, M., & Sileno, S. (2001). Motivação no esporte infanto-juvenil: uma discussão sobre razões de busca e abandono da prática esportiva entre crianças e adolescentes (Motivation in children/teenager sports: a discussion of the reasons children and teenagers begin practising sports and then drop out). Revista do Instituto de Ciências da Saúde (Journal of Health Institute), São Paulo, v.19 (1), pp.7-13.

Knijnik, J.D. & Simoes, A.C. (2000). Ser é ser percebido: uma radiografia da imagem corporal das atletas de handebol de alto nível no Brasil (Being is to be perceived: an x-ray of high-level female handball athletes’ body image). Revista Paulista de Educação Física (São Paulo Journal of Physical Education), 14(2), pp.196-213, July/December, .

Book chapters

Knijnik, J.D (2009). Muito além dos estereótipos: teatro, gênero e Direitos Humanos na cultura infantil (“Far beyond stereotypes: Theatre, Gender and Humans Rights at Children´s Culture”). In Federal Council of Scientific Research - `Construindo a igualdade de genero – livro dos premios (Building the Gender Equality - awards book), Brasilia .

Knijnik, J. D. ; Vasconcellos, E. G. (2005). Les femmes en crampons à coeur ouvert au Brésil. In: TERRET, T (org). Sport et genre: v1 – La conquête d´une citadelle masculine. Paris, L´ Harmattan, , p. 295-308.

Knijnik, J.D., Massa, M. & Ferreti, M.C. (2008). Direitos Humanos e especialização esportiva precoce: considerações metodológicas e filosóficas (“Human Rights and premature sports specialization; philosophical and methodological speculations”). In Afonso Antonio Machado (ed.). Especialização esportiva precoce: perspectivas atuais da Psicologia do Esporte, Jundiaí, Fontoura, , pp. 109-128.

Knijnik, J.D.; Souza, J.S. (2004).Diferentes e Desiguais: Relações de Gênero na Mídia Esportiva Brasileira (“Different and Unequal: Gender Relations in Brazilian Sports Media”) in: Simoes, A. C.; Knijnik, J.D. (orgs.) O mundo psicossocial da mulher no esporte – comportamento, gênero, desempenho. São Paulo: Aleph, , pp. 191-212.

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Book Series

Agôn – o Espírito do Esporte (Agôn – The Soul of The Sport), with 9 books about sports written for children and adolescents to encourage them to love sport. (Track & field, judo, tennis, volleyball, climbing, cycling, gymnastics, capoeira, swimming, european handball).

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