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Mordal-Moen, Kjersti; Green, Ken – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
A feature of academic literature on physical education teacher education (PETE) is the expectation that it can and should impact upon student teachers' beliefs and prospective practices in some significant ways. This is despite research over the last 20 years or more alluding to the apparent failure of PETE to "shake or stir" (Evans et…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Halvari, Hallgeir; Skjesol, Knut; Bagoien, Tor Egil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The present research tested the longitudinal relations over a school-year between motivational climates, achievement goals, and five physical education outcomes, namely intrinsic motivation, perceived competence, positive attitude, exertion, and attendance in physical education. The results showed that students' mastery goals measured early in the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Environment
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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
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Karhus, Svein – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2010
Background: A major consequence of the neo-liberal ideology underpinning recent reforms in higher education in the Western world has been the significant increase in the competitiveness of institutions to recruit students in the marketplace of education and to keep them. Accordingly bachelor degrees relating to physical education teacher education…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Kjonniksen, Lise; Fjortoft, Ingunn; Wold, Bente – European Physical Education Review, 2009
This study examined the relationship between participation in organized youth sport and attitude to physical education (PE) during adolescence and physical activity in young adulthood. The sample comprised 630 participants who completed questionnaires over a 10-year period. Analysis of variance and regression were used to examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Questionnaires
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Dowling, Fiona – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: Despite the evidence that many girls and some boys are regularly subjected to inequalities within school physical education (PE) in Norway today, and international research showing how physical education teacher education (PETE) courses often construct unequal learning opportunities for their students on the basis of gender, few…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Foreign Countries
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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
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Annerstedt, Claes – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate meanings attached to physical education in the Scandinavian countries through (1) the different national syllabi; and (2) interpretations and conclusions researchers make in their studies of Scandinavian physical education and how these findings look like compared with other researchers'…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Physical Activities
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Skille, Eivind Asrum – Sport, Education and Society, 2007
Based on a general belief in society about the good outcome of sport, this article critically examines the meaning--that is both the personal experience of participation and the potential educational outcome--which is derived from participation in two sport contexts under the umbrella of the Sports City Program (SCP) in Norway. With a theoretical…
Descriptors: Socialization, Family (Sociological Unit), Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education
Hinderman, Lin McGovern; And Others – Journal of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, 1971
Descriptors: Athletics, Climate, Curriculum, Physical Education
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Ommundsen, Yngvar; Kvalo, Silje Eikanger – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
We investigated the role of motivational climates, teacher autonomy support, perceived competence and autonomy on pupils' self-regulated motivation in physical education (PE) classes of Norwegian 10th-graders. Path analyses revealed that a mastery climate and teacher autonomy support both (a) positively influenced intrinsically regulated…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Student Motivation, Outcomes of Education
Ingram, Anne – 1978
The purpose of this study was to assemble a profile of the status of women in four countries, including their accomplishments in international sports events. The status of women within a country must be defined and understood before equivalence in sport opportunities for males and females can be comprehended. The first hypothesis was that a lack…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences, Females, Foreign Countries
Polidoro, J. Richard – Research Quarterly, 1977
Scandinavian students pursuing teaching careers in physical education receive a limited program of studies in general liberal education but experience an intense and detailed preparation within the specialized field of physical education. (JD)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Evaluation, Degree Requirements, Foreign Countries
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Krotee, March L.; And Others – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 1991
Seven articles explore ways to meet the needs of elderly people around the world through sport, health, physical education, recreation, and dance. The articles address model service programs, senior athletes, International Elderhostel programs, and programs in the USSR, Great Britain, and Norway. (SM)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Athletics, Demonstration Programs, Global Approach
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Ommundsen, Yngvar – European Physical Education Review, 2006
This study examined the relationship of motivational climate and differential achievement goals to meta-cognitive self-regulation, regulation of effort, help-seeking and self-handicapping in physical education (PE). The sample consisted of 273 pupils (boys n = 125; girls n = 148) attending 10th grade PE classes in Norway. Both motivational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
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