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Direct linkIsgren Karlsson, Andreas; Alatalo, Tarja; Nyberg, Gunn; Backman, Erik – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
In the Swedish educational system, there has been a recent push for digital technology in different school subjects. This paper investigates what regulates Swedish physical education teachers' perceptions of digital technology in outdoor education. The results is reflected in a number of rules that govern Swedish physical education teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Nyberg, Gunn; Backman, Erik; Larsson, Håkan – European Physical Education Review, 2020
Scholars argue that movement content knowledge in physical education teacher education (PETE) needs to be revisited and problematised. In this paper we develop the concept of movement capability representing a widened view of movement content knowledge. If teacher educators want to teach movement capability as an intrinsic educational goal in PETE…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Psychomotor Skills
Tolgfors, Björn; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Backman, Erik; Nyberg, Gunn – European Physical Education Review, 2022
In many countries, assessment for learning (AfL) is recommended in both policy and research as a concept that should be integrated into the teaching of physical education (PE) in schools. AfL is also part of physical education teacher education (PETE) programs in several countries and, consequently, something future PE teachers are expected to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Teacher Education Programs, School Community Relationship
Tolgfors, Björn; Backman, Erik; Nyberg, Gunn; Quennerstedt, Mikael – European Physical Education Review, 2021
The purpose of this study is to explore the recontextualisation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) as a particular content area in the transition between a university course and a school placement course within Swedish physical education teacher education (PETE). By combining Basil Bernstein's pedagogic device and Stephen Ball's performativity…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Placement
Backman, Erik; Tolgfors, B.; Nyberg, G.; Quennerstedt, M. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: In this paper, we will address the question of how physical education teacher education (PETE) matters and suggest one way to explore the potential impact of PETE. A distinguishing feature of the studies of PETE's impact on physical education is that they either include perspectives from preservice teachers involved in PETE courses or…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Professionalism
Backman, Erik; Tidén, Anna; Wiorek, Dan; Svanström, Fredrik; Pihl, Lars – Cogent Education, 2021
As a part of the discussion about how movement knowledge is valued in physical education teacher education (PETE), issues of assessment have been brought to the fore. Studies have shown that how and when movement knowledge is assessed is strongly culturally dependent and based different epistemological orientations. The aim of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Backman, Erik; Nyberg, Gunn; Larsson, Håkan – European Physical Education Review, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to analyse and discuss physical education teacher education (PETE) students' conceptions of teaching and assessment of movement capability as a part of content knowledge in aquatics, dance and ice-skating at a university in Sweden. The theoretical perspective involves Shulman's concept of content knowledge, the further…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
Backman, Erik; Larsson, Håkan – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Research indicates that physical education teacher education (PETE) has only limited impact on how physical education (PE) is taught in schools. In this paper, our starting point is that the difficulties of challenging the dominating subject traditions in PE could be due to difficulties of challenging certain epistemological…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Education
Backman, Erik; Pearson, Phil – European Physical Education Review, 2016
The question of what knowledge a student of Physical Education (PE) needs to develop during PE teacher education (PETE) was recently discussed. One form of knowledge is the movement practices that students must meet during their education. Given the limited time, a delicate matter is whether to prioritize movement knowledge and consider it as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Educators
Backman, Erik – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
During the last decade, expanding research investigating the school subject Physical Education (PE) indicates a promotion of inequalities regarding which children benefit from PE teaching. Outdoor education and its Scandinavian equivalent "friluftsliv," is a part of the PE curriculum in many countries, and these practices have been…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Democracy, Physical Education Teachers
Backman, Erik – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2011
Research indicates that outdoor teaching practices within a physical education (PE) context are controlled by several factors with the potential to weaken or strengthen PE teachers' communication of pedagogic messages. Drawing on 12 qualitative interviews with PE teachers in compulsory schools in Sweden, the findings in this study suggest that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influences, Physical Education, Outdoor Education
Backman, Erik – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
The value assigned to "friluftsliv" (activities similar to outdoor education) in physical education teacher education (PETE) and in the physical education (PE) syllabus in Sweden does not seem to result in the implementation of "friluftsliv" in the practice of teaching in Swedish schools. This study investigates how the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Swedish
