ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the ideas around listening to young people emerged and how they evolved by chronicling the research on student perspectives and student-voice in physical education research. It discusses the research on student-centred pedagogy and how this differs from the physical education research on student perspectives and student voice. The chapter highlights how activist scholars have utilized the collective understandings from the research on student voice, student perspectives and student-centred pedagogy in their work with girls as a way of better facilitating girls' active engagement in physical education and physical activity. Activist scholars display an openness to trust girls to be capable and willing to actively participate in a collaborative process designed to help facilitate their engagement in physical education and physical activity. Educational gymnastics and related practices were child-centred in the sense that they focused on the individual rather than the group.
