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Direct linkTarkington J. Newman; Fernando Santos; Scott Pierce; Karen Collins; Bob Barcelona; Virginia Mercier – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: Despite the fact that research supports the positive impact coach education has on increasing the quality of athletes' developmental experiences in sport, there remains resistance regarding the use of positive youth development (PYD) content within coach education. The purpose of the current study is to explore what scholars, who are…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Student Athletes, Student Development, Daily Living Skills
Rocchi, Meredith; Couture, A. Lauren – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Within the field of coach development, previous research has ascertained that elite coaches learn through a variety of formal, non-formal, and informal sources. Little is known, however, about how coaches from different coaching contexts such as recreational and developmental learn to coach. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Recreational Programs, Online Surveys, Questionnaires, Athletic Coaches
Ferreira, Heidi Jancer; Kirk, David; Drigo, Alexandre Janotta – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: It is well established in the literature how exercise prevents chronic diseases. Nevertheless, we still lack knowledge about the ways in which health-related bodily practices might contribute to health promotion. Less is known about pedagogies in public health directed at adult and older-age groups, within non-formal educational…
Descriptors: Adults, Older Adults, Health Education, Health Promotion
Sawiuk, Rebecca; Taylor, William. G.; Groom, Ryan – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Within the context of sports coaching and coach education, formalised mentoring relationships are often depicted as a mentor--mentee dyad. Thus, mentoring within sports coaching is typically conceptualised as a one-dimensional relationship, where the mentor is seen as the powerful member of the dyad, with greater age and/or experience…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Mentors, Athletics, Physical Education
Camiré, Martin; Trudel, Pierre; Forneris, Tanya – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Research indicates that some youth sport coaches have specific strategies in their coaching plan to facilitate positive youth development (PYD) while others struggle in articulating how they promote the development of their athletes in actual practice. These variations can be largely attributed to the fact that coaching is a complex…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Foreign Countries, Models, High School Students
Winchester, Geoff; Culver, Diane; Camiré, Martin – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: There are approximately 52,000 teacher-coaches coaching 750,000 high school student-athletes in Canada. Despite this large population, Canadian high school teacher-coaches remain relatively unstudied. High school coaches in Canada are often asked to coach sports with which they are unfamiliar, and because they are not required to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Athletic Coaches, Focus Groups
Garn, Alex C.; Cothran, Donetta J.; Jenkins, Jayne M. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Past research has revealed the positive impact that interest development can have on achievement outcomes with early-adolescents in physical education (PE). Interest is considered a psychological state of engaging and willingness to reengage in specific content that develops over time; however, little work to date has examined interest…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Participant Observation
Spittle, Michael; Byrne, Kate – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2009
Background: Physical educators are faced with trying to provide motivating and enjoyable experiences in physical education. Sport Education is an instructional model that aims to provide positive motivational sport experiences by simulating the features of authentic sport. Research support for Sport Education is positive, however, the effects on…
Descriptors: Group Instruction, Control Groups, Physical Education, Self Concept
Stran, Margaret; Curtner-Smith, Matthew – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2010
Background: Teachers' and pupils' responses to the Sport Education (SE) model have been very positive. Pupils clearly enjoy SE and the model created lasting changes in teachers' beliefs and perspectives on teaching. While much research has been done on the impact of SE on teachers and students, there has been relatively little research on how both…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education
McCaughtry, Nate – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: As the conversation regarding gender and physical education has evolved, a great many suggestions have been offered that reflect ways of designing more gender sensitive environments. The problem now turns the transformation of theoretical suggestions into real change in the practices of schools. Purpose: The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Research Design, Physical Education, Middle Class
