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Direct linkLauritsalo, Kirsti; Sääkslahti, Arja; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Physical education is a subject that generates strong feelings and emotions, as can be seen in written accounts of PE experiences. It is also important to listen to students' voices in the research context. Nowadays, students can be listened to in a new way--through the Internet. Various discussion forums on the Internet make it…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Internet, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Mediated Communication
Slade, Dennis G.; Webb, Louisa A.; Martin, Andrew J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Over the last 30 years, traditional skill-based game teaching models have gradually been supplemented by instruction under an inclusive banner of "Teaching Games for Understanding" (TGfU). This approach focuses on developing tactical understanding through modified games and a philosophy that places the learner rather than the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Team Sports, Sport Psychology, Physical Education
MacLean, Justine; Mulholland, Rosemary; Gray, Shirley; Horrell, Andrew – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Curriculum for Excellence, a new national policy initiative in Scottish Schools, provides a unified curricular framework for children aged 3-18. Within this framework, Physical Education (PE) now forms part of a collective alongside physical activity and sport, subsumed by the newly created curriculum area of "Health and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Oliver, Kimberly L.; Oesterreich, Heather A.; Aranda, Raquel; Archeleta, Jarrod; Blazer, Casey; de la Cruz, Kandy; Martinez, Daniel; McConnell, Jenn; Osta, Maggee; Parks, Lacie; Robinson, Rinalldo – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges and benefits that emerged while using an innovative field-based student-centered inquiry as curriculum model in a secondary physical education methods course. Participants and setting: This study took place in the Southwest USA. Participants included 11 pre-service teachers who were…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
Perlman, Dana J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: A major goal within physical education is to develop a student who will engage in a lifetime of physical activity. A concept deemed critical and strongly associated with engagement in physical activity is motivation. As such, a number of research studies have been focused on elements that facilitate student motivation in physical…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Physical Education
Whatman, Susan L.; Singh, Parlo – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Over the last 20 years, curriculum development in Health and Physical Education (HPE) (or Physical Education, Physical Education and Health, Sport Education as it is variously called) has repeatedly attempted to address issues of equity and social inclusion. Why then does systemic educational disadvantage persist, and why do the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Indigenous Populations, Health Education, Curriculum Development
Fitzpatrick, Katie; Russell, Dan – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: This paper is a reflection on being a critical teacher of health and physical education. It is a conversation of sorts between the two authors: a critical educator and researcher, and a critical teacher. It is based on the shared experiences of one of the author's (Dan) high-school PE and health classes over the course of a year…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Critical Theory, Ethnography
Iserbyt, Peter – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: This study is a part of a larger research project where the effect of instructional guidance in terms of role definition and role switching was investigated on students' learning of Basic Life Support (BLS) during a 20-minute reciprocal learning episode with task cards. BLS is a lifesaving skill consisting of nine sub skills to be…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, Task Analysis, Daily Living Skills, Pretests Posttests
Forrest, Gregory – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Game-centred approaches (GCA) have been promoted as a more meaningful way to teach games and sports due to their connections with constructivist learning principles. However, the implementation is dependant on the teacher implementing it rather than just the model. There has been little research into what it means to use a GCA well and…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Physical Education, Test Construction, Concept Formation
Pasco, Denis; Ennis, Catherine D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Students' prior knowledge plays an important role in learning new knowledge. In physical education (PE) and physical activity settings, studies have confirmed the role of students' prior knowledge. According to Placek and Griffin, these studies demonstrate that: "our students are not empty balls waiting to be filled with…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Models, Exercise Physiology, Prior Learning
McEvilly, Nollaig; Verheul, Martine; Atencio, Matthew – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Preschool physical education has been largely unexplored by researchers. This article examines the meaning of the term "physical education", in relation to preschool contexts, to 14 practitioners working at three preschool settings in Scotland. Our focus on preschool physical education reflects a change in the language…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation, Educational Policy
Harvey, William J.; Wilkinson, Shawn; Pressé, Cindy; Joober, Ridha; Grizenko, Natalie – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Physical educators suggested that they are not well-informed about behaviors of children with disabilities, especially attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Children with ADHD represent a significant number of students in school systems worldwide who often experience difficulties in performing fundamental movement skills.…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children, Physical Education
Evin, Agathe; Sève, Carole; Saury, Jacques – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Introduction: One of the aims of physical education (PE) is to develop social skills such as cooperation, teamwork, and mutual helping among students. Cooperation is a broad research topic, implicating several disciplines in the human sciences (e.g. psychology, sociology, linguistics, philosophy). It is also an important topic in various domains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Cooperation, Trust (Psychology)
Vandercleyen, François; Boudreau, Pierre; Carlier, Ghislain; Delens, Cécile – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Emotions play a major role in the learning of pre-service teachers. However, there is a lack of in-depth research on emotion in the context of physical education (PE), especially during the practicum. Lazarus's model and its concepts of appraisal and coping is a salient theoretical framework for understanding the emotional…
Descriptors: Coping, Case Studies, Physical Education, Interviews
Casey, Ashley – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Many critical curriculum theorists in physical education have advocated a model- or models-based approach to teaching in the subject. This paper explores the literature base around models-based practice (MBP) and asks if this multi-models approach to curriculum planning has the potential to be the great white hope of pedagogical change…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Models, Curriculum Development
