Thesis Title
Brooches, Blues and Bloomers: How Material Culture creates, sustains and enriches sport and physical education at Brisbane Girls Grammar School Pauline Harvey-Short DipT. (Sec Phys Ed), BHMS. A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Philosophy at The University of Queensland in 2015 School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences 1 | P a g e Abstract This thesis seeks to illustrate how material culture has created, sustained, and enriched the sporting culture of the Brisbane Girls Grammar School, a secular secondary girls’ school in Queensland, while attempting to contextualise the place sport plays in a schoolgirl’s education. There is an obvious void in the historical examination of girls’ physical education and sporting culture and this thesis is unique in the use of material culture as a methodology for its focus. The purpose has been to research the development of schoolgirl physical activity, specifically at Brisbane Girls Grammar School, through the media of objects and artefacts, not only illustrating the impact “things” have on people’s experiences and culture, but also exploring the value of artefacts as resources in the sporting context. Examining specific artefacts from perspectives of usage, style, context, and intrinsic and extrinsic value has enabled an assessment of the sporting and physical education culture of Brisbane Girls Grammar School. To explain the role sport and physical activity played in Queensland’s first secondary girls’ school, representative and original items were selected: prizes and awards for sport and physical education, photographs, and specific items of uniform. By using material culture as the lens, this study has enriched the traditional written history of the School.
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