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Health by Stealth--Exploring the Sociocultural Dimensions of Salutogenesis for Sport, Health and Physical Education Research
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McCuaig, Louise; Quennerstedt, Mikael – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
Sport, health and physical education (SHPE) researchers have increasingly embraced the salutogenic model of health devised by Aaron Antonvosky, to re-understand and problematise the relation between movement, physical activity or physical education on one hand, and health on the other. However, contemporary research employing Antonovsky's theories…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Wellness, Educational Research
Physical Education and the Art of Teaching: Transformative Learning and Teaching in Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy
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Quennerstedt, Mikael – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The paper is the José María Cagigal Scholar Lecture presented at the AIESEP World Congress in Edinburgh 2018. In the paper I argue that the only real sustainable aim for physical education is "more" physical education, where different ways of being in the world as some-body are both possible and encouraged. To reach this aim, a focus on…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Teaching Methods, Role of Education
"I Just Remember Rugby": Re-Membering Physical Education as More than a Sport
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Casey, Ashley; Quennerstedt, Mikael – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate how boys communicate previous experiences of cultural norms in physical education (PE) practice. This was done by analyzing what boys (from a school in the United Kingdom) remember about PE 2 years after they last participated. Making use of autobiographical memory theory and John Dewey's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Cultural Influences, Physical Education
Being a Competent Athlete or a Competent Teacher? Aesthetic Experiences in Physical Education Teacher Education
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Maivorsdotter, Ninitha; Lundvall, Suzanne; Quennerstedt, Mikael – European Physical Education Review, 2014
The aim of this study was to explore physical education teacher education students' meaning-making of participating in lessons--in this case gymnastics and basketball--based on their aesthetic judgements, expressed in written stories. A transactional approach, drawing on the work of John Dewey, was used in the study and the empirical data was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Athletics, Team Sports
Transactions in Primary Physical Education in the UK: A Smorgasbord of Looks-Like-Sport
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Ward, Gavin; Quennerstedt, Mikael – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Crum proposes the term "movement culture" as a means to best understand the relationships between PE and wider movement practices. Learning within movement culture is practical and embodied, and integral to the cultural and institutional contexts within which PE is situated. Purpose: Using visual data gathered from PE lessons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Movement Education, Athletics
PE on YouTube--Investigating Participation in Physical Education Practice
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Quennerstedt, Mikael – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: In this article, students' diverse ways of participating in physical education (PE) practice shown in clips on YouTube were investigated. YouTube is the largest user-generated video-sharing website on the Internet, where different video content is presented. The clips on YouTube, as used in this paper, can be seen as a user-generated…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Internet, Video Technology