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Khimich, Vita; Homoniuk, Olena; Rudnichenko, Mykola – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article deals with analysis of undergraduate courses for professional training of future physical culture teachers in Poland, Germany, France, and Ukraine. These countries set a number of requirements to higher educational establishments that have professionally oriented programmes for such specialists and are almost similar in majority of the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Danthony, Sarah; Mascret, Nicolas; Cury, François – European Physical Education Review, 2020
Test anxiety is experienced by a substantial number of students in many school subjects, including physical education, and it may be deleterious for their school performance and their well-being. The aim of our study was to explore through multiple regression and mediation analyses the relationships between test anxiety in physical education,…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Physical Education, Gender Differences, Age Differences
Polenghi, Simonetta, Ed.; Németh, András, Ed.; Kasper, Tomáš, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2021
The public dimension of the body became paramount in the first half of the 20th century, when the image of the modern man, with his virile stereotypes, became a cliché, in strict connection with nation building first and totalitarian ideologies later. Yet, different cultural and educational trends advocated for life reform and liberation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Human Body, Physical Education
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Attali, Michaël; Saint-Martin, Jean – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2017
During the twentieth century, outdoor physical education (OPE) gradually integrated with the French education system. Culturally speaking, OPE had to overcome several hurdles because it promoted values such as freedom, initiative and responsibility that were deemed incompatible with the existing educational model. Beyond being a pedagogical tool,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Educational History
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Escriva-Boulley, Géraldine; Haerens, Leen; Tessier, Damien; Sarrazin, Philippe – European Physical Education Review, 2021
It is widely acknowledged that teachers' (de)motivating style (what they say, do and how they act) affects students' learning. Understanding what leads teachers to adopt a (de)motivating style is necessary to develop effective training programmes. The current study aimed to identify antecedents of teachers' motivating (i.e. need-supportive) and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Influence, Student Motivation, Student Needs
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Komar, John; Potdevin, François; Chollet, Didier; Seifert, Ludovic – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Introduction: The constraints-led approach (CLA) and more generally a complex systems perspective on motor learning emphasizes the role of perceptual-motor exploration during learning in order to ensure the acquisition of a highly individualized, adapted and adaptable movement pattern. Recent studies have shown that human beings have a strong…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Jourand, Clément; Adé, David; Sève, Carole; Komar, John; Thouvarecq, Régis – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Introduction: Many studies in physical education (PE) have sought to identify and categorize the modes of student interaction in order to gain greater insight into the nature of cooperative activity. More others recent studies have examined how modes of interaction evolve on the basis of the modes of collective activity that they generate. These…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Interaction
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Lebossé, Clémence; Érard, Carine; Vivier, Christian – Power and Education, 2021
In a society where the politics of life is geared toward maximizing the physical and psychological dimensions of human capital to ensure economic growth, France's Inspectorate for Youth and Sports played a key role in disseminating a new mode of governance of bodies and youth--a form of self-governance based on the rising neoliberal values that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Team Sports, Physical Education
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Coudevylle, Guillaume R.; Boulley-Escriva, Géraldine; Finez, Lucie; Eugène, Karen; Robin, Nicolas – Educational Psychology, 2020
The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the motivational climates (MCs) drawn from achievement goal and self-determination theories would affect perceived competence and the use of claimed self-handicapping. Specifically, this study examined the effects of performance MC, mastery MC and need-supportive MC on these two…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Performance, Mastery Learning
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Potdevin, F.; Vors, O.; Huchez, A.; Lamour, M.; Davids, K.; Schnitzler, C. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Much of the existing research concerning the use of video feedback (VFB) to enhance motor learning has been undertaken under strictly controlled experimental conditions. Few studies have sought to explore the impact of VFB on the skill learning experience of the students in a structured, school-based physical education (PE) setting.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Feedback (Response), Physical Education, Novices
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Vors, Olivier; Gal-Petitfaux, Nathalie; Potdevin, François – European Physical Education Review, 2015
Since 2010, French middle schools with a high enrolment of difficult students have benefited from a compensatory policy called "Écoles Collèges et Lycées pour l'Ambition, l'Innovation et la Réussite" (ECLAIR) (Primary and Secondary Schools for Ambition, Innovation and Success). These difficult students frequently misbehave, disengage…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Teaching Methods
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Ligozat, Florence; Lundqvist, Eva; Amade-Escot, Chantal – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
One strand of comparative didactics aims at discussing the relationships between the theoretical constructions developed within subject didactics and how these can contribute to research about teaching and learning. This article explores the relationships between categories for analysing joint actions of teacher and students (didactic contract,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Science Education, Science Instruction
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Özkara, Abdullah Bora – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
Different countries differently address the physical education needs of disabled children. Some focus only on the classroom learning hence equipping the children with little knowledge on physical education. Others lack the facilities to facilitate the physical education of the disabled. This has led to an increased number of the disabled with…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Inclusion, Access to Education
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Legrain, Pascal; Escalié, Guillaume; Lafont, Lucile; Chaliès, Sébastien – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: One of the key questions of physical education teacher educators (PETE) programmes refers to whether future teachers are prepared to build knowledge and skills to feel self-efficacious in teaching physical education (PE). This issue concerns the instructional model of teaching used to help PE pre-service teachers to master both…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Roure, Cédric; Pasco, Denis – European Physical Education Review, 2018
Based on the framework of interest, studies have shown that situational interest possesses strong motivation potential for students in physical education. Understanding how teachers can use situational interest in a classroom context is critical to motivate students. However, such investigations have been exclusively conducted in the United States…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Secondary School Students, Task Analysis
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