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Download full textLagestad, Pål – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2017
Longitudinal studies on adolescents' enjoyment in physical education (PE) are lacking. This study examined students' self-reported enjoyment and predictors of enjoyment in PE in school among students from age 14 to 19, using questionnaires and interviews. From the results, enjoyment in PE increases among girls during high school, while students…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Physical Education
Direct linkLyngstad, Idar; Hagen, Per-Magnus; Aune, Ola – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
Previous research shows that some pupils find physical education (PE) demanding and difficult. Some pupils use strategies to avoid participation in PE when it is demanding and difficult. The present study aims to illuminate and describe strategies used by pupils to avoid negative self-perception in difficult situations and activities in PE…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Behavior, Interviews, Focus Groups
Standal, Øyvind Førland; Moen, Kjersti Mordal; Moe, Vegard Fusche – European Physical Education Review, 2014
Previous studies have found that student teachers value the practicum over other parts of physical education teacher education and that they experience a gap between theory and practice in their education. The purpose of this study was to provide more knowledge about the theory-practice relations in the context of the practicum of physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
Walseth, Kristin; Engebretsen, Berit; Elvebakk, Lisbeth – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background and purpose: The research literature in physical education (PE) is placing a growing focus on the need for research that can illuminate not only the challenges PE faces but also how we can develop PE to meet the needs of all students. The activist approach aims to study future possibilities in PE, and the goal is for all young people…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Relevance (Education)
Karhus, Svein – Sport, Education and Society, 2012
Framed within a shift from a highly centralized system of higher education (HE) to a de-regulated system in Norway, this article addresses how the foci upon student recruitment and incentives in the governmental funding of HE have stimulated market dynamics which affect local configurations of bachelor degrees in sport, physical education and…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Student Recruitment
Dowling, Fiona – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
The concept of the "professional teacher" is highly contestable, and the array of definitions that circulate in teacher education draw on competing theoretical and ideological positions. This paper explores what discourses about professionalism are currently available within Norwegian physical education teacher education (PETE) and, in…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Physical Education, Colleges, Teacher Collaboration
Walseth, Kristin – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
Recent years have seen an increase in scholarly attention to minority pupils and their experience of physical education (PE). UK research identifies specific challenges related to Muslim pupils' participation in PE. In Norway, little research has been undertaken on Muslim pupils' experiences in PE, something this paper hopes to redress in part. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Factors
Dowling, Fiona; Karhus, Svein – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Physical education (PE) is a subject which has a long history of legitimising itself on the grounds of its contribution to pupils' social and moral welfare. It therefore seems probable that PE teacher education (PETE) might embrace recent calls for the need to re-moralise society due to the conditions of the late-modern age and not…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
Dowling, Fiona – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
This paper attempts to illustrate how embodied ways of knowing may enhance our theoretical understanding within the field of physical education teacher education (PETE). It seeks to illustrate how teacher educators' viewpoints and understanding of gender relations are inevitably linked to socially constructed webs of emotions, as much as to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Emotional Response, Human Relations, Physical Education Teachers
Standal, Oyvind F.; Jespersen, Ejgil – Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 2008
The purpose of this study was to investigate the learning that takes place when people with disabilities interact in a rehabilitation context. Data were generated through in-depth interviews and close observations in a 2 one-half week-long rehabilitation program, where the participants learned both wheelchair skills and adapted physical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Rehabilitation Programs, Peer Relationship, Interaction
