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Jama, Kaisa-Mari; Tynjälä, Päivi; Aarto-Pesonen, Leena; Malinen, Anita; Hämäläinen, Raija – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Previous research has revealed the challenges of sports graduates. Of particular concern is the question of how sports graduates navigate these difficulties in the job market. This study sought to understand the modern careers of sports graduates by describing different career story models among sports degree graduates. Life story data collection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, College Graduates, Labor Market
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Gråstén, Arto; Kokkonen, Marja – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2022
In many countries, sex equality is an essential aim of physical education (PE) curricula, while the PE grouping practices are widely hetero-normative. As far as there is a discrepancy between the curricula and practice, equality will not fully take place. This study examined the associations between PE teachers' perceived teaching efficacy…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Single Sex Classes, Coeducation, Physical Education Teachers
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Seunghyun Baek; Ben Dyson; Donal Howley; Yanhua Shen – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Despite growing attention on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in education settings (Jones, S. M., McGarrah, M. W., & Kahn, J. (2019). Social and emotional learning: A principled science of human development in context. "Educational Psychologist," 54(3), 129-143. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1080/00461520.2019.1625776), there also has been…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Emotional Learning, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education
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Virta, Jukka; Hökkä, Päivi; Eteläpelto, Anneli; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – European Physical Education Review, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the significance of informal learning contexts in physical education (PE) student teachers' professional identity construction. It addressed two research questions: How do informal learning contexts contribute to the construction of PE student teachers' professional identity? What forms of relationships can be…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Physical Education Teachers, Student Teachers, Professional Identity
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Angélica María Sáenz-Macana; Sofía Pereira-García; Javier Gil-Quintana; José Devís-Devís – European Physical Education Review, 2024
The purpose of this study was to review academic papers on the experiences of binary and non-binary trans people in physical education (PE), published between January 2000 and August 2022. The selection process yielded 16 articles from Brazil, the UK, Spain, Canada, Finland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the USA. The discussion focuses on five themes…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Student Experience, Physical Education, LGBTQ People
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McMullen, Jaimie M.; Kallio, Jouni; Tammelin, Tuija H. – European Physical Education Review, 2022
The World Health Organization ([WHO], 2018) encourages schools to engage with a multi-component, whole-of-school approach to physical activity promotion. However, little evidence exists describing the practices of schools that successfully promote a physically active school culture. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the best…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Physical Activities, Best Practices
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Mi An; Reia Tanaka; Naho Hirota; Takehiro Sasai; Hideki Takahashi; Yuuya Ogawa; Shizuko Horai; Mayumi Inoue; Randeep Rakwal; Toshihiro Kato – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Purpose: Adapted physical activity (APA) provides children and youth with disabilities more opportunities to be physically active. Nevertheless, it is not well known how APA implementation in different services has benefited them. This study reviews the existing literature on APA interventions to identify characteristics and program descriptions,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Intervention, Disabilities, Children
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Anne Soini; Anthony Watt; Arja Sääkslahti – European Physical Education Review, 2024
This study aimed to explore the relationships between Finnish early childhood pre-service teachers' (N = 274; aged 20-49; 92% female) self-reported physical activity (PA) and perceptions of their own enjoyment of schooltime physical education (PE), self-evaluation of the content of their current PE studies, perceived importance of PE, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Physical Activity Level, Student Attitudes
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Mihajlovic, Christopher – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
This paper investigates the relationship between the Finnish national curriculum and inclusive practices of physical education (PE) from the viewpoint of teachers from Finland. Case studies were conducted with the intention of developing understandings of the teacher's perspective on the current PE curricula at the time of transition to a new…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, National Curriculum, Physical Education, Special Education Teachers
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Damián Iglesias; Javier Fernandez-Rio; Pablo Rodríguez-González – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aimed to examine moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels in physical education. Method: A review of reviews was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. The screening process, data extraction, assessment of the risk of bias, and analysis of the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activity Level, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Suzanne Lundvall; Thordis Gisladottir; Åge Lauritzen; Annemari Munk Svendsen; Kasper Salin; Runa Stefansdottir; Andreas Fröberg – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
In the present study, we present a cross-country comparison of the status and condition of sustainable development (SD) in the Nordic physical education (PE) curricula. The aim of the study was to increase knowledge of how SD perspectives are represented and conceptualised in the Nordic PE curricula. An expert-driven research approach was used…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Curriculum, Sustainable Development, Cross Cultural Studies
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Huhtiniemi, Mikko; Sääkslahti, Arja; Tolvanen, Asko; Watt, Anthony; Jaakkola, Timo – European Physical Education Review, 2022
Despite the prominence of fitness testing in school physical education (PE), there is a sparsity of research examining the antecedents of students' affective experiences during fitness testing lessons. This study aimed to investigate the associations among task- and ego-involving motivational climates, perceived physical competence, physical…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Environment, Competence, Physical Fitness
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Kokkonen, Juha; Yli-Piipari, Sami; Kokkonen, Marja; Quay, John – European Physical Education Review, 2019
This study investigated the effectiveness of a creative physical education (CPE) intervention on students' perceptions of motivational climate in physical education (PE), leisure-time physical activity (PA) motivation, and overall PA. A sample of 382 fourth to sixth grade students (M[subscript age] = 10.87[0.93]) from two elementary schools were…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Leisure Time
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Van Rossum, Tom; Foweather, Lawrence; Hayes, Spencer; Richardson, David; Morley, David – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2021
The aim of this study was to establish the content of a teacher-oriented movement assessment tool (MAT) for children aged 4-7 years. A three-round Delphi poll with an international panel of forty-six academics and practitioners was conducted. Consensus was reached on a selection and number of fundamental movement skills to be assessed with four…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Basic Skills, Tests, Elementary School Students
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Huhtiniemi, Mikko; Salin, Kasper; Lahti, Jukka; Sääkslahti, Arja; Tolvanen, Asko; Watt, Anthony; Jaakkola, Timo – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: Fitness testing is a commonly applied learning and teaching practice implemented in both secondary and elementary school physical education (PE). Many teachers believe that by using a variety of different tests, they are able to provide students with feedback regarding their fitness status, and furthermore, increase students'…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Fitness, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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