Deportigualízate : developing a critical intersectional feminist curriculum for physical education

Physical education literature has primarily focused on how critical and feminist pedagogies are enacted in different settings. At the same time, there has been very little literature documenting the process of developing critical and feminist pedagogies in physical education. In this paper, we present two things. In this paper, we present two main things. First, the developmental process of a critical intersectional feminist unit called the deportigualízate curriculum. Second, a synthesis of what we have learned after such a developmental process, which is presented as the four organising principles of a critical intersectional feminist approach to physical education. To do so, we outline four distinct phases of this process (1) Learning about people, context and content; (2) Working with co-developers; (3) Initial Pilot; and (4) Practice of the Curriculum. Whilst outlining these phases we also provide a reflective narrative that unpacks the emotions, tensions, contradictions, and challenges we encountered during this curriculum development process. We then reflect on previously published research about the deportigualízate curriculum to present its four organising principles, which are the outcome of the development process. We conclude the paper by providing the main insights of the curriculum development process and reflect on ways to support others in developing their own critical and feminist instructional units.