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Barker, Dean – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
Scholars have drawn some damning conclusions on the current state of the academy. They argue that neoliberal developments such as corporatization and privatization are undermining research and teaching quality, disrupting social relations and impacting negatively on the health and well-being of academic staff. Academia is, according to these…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Neoliberalism, Ethnography, Commercialization
Öhman, Marie; Quennerstedt, Ann – Sport, Education and Society, 2017
In this paper we question the rationality of "no-touch policies" and offer an alternative approach to the matter of physical contact between teachers and students in the context of physical education (PE) in schools. Earlier research has drawn attention to how a discourse of child protection is starting to affect how physical contact is…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Physical Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Student Relationship
Schubring, Astrid; Bergentoft, Heléne; Barker, Dean – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2021
'Characteristics and consequences of different body ideals' are a mandatory curriculum content in Swedish physical education (PE). Didactic strategies for teaching on body ideals are, however, scarce. In this paper, we introduce a classroom-based teaching unit on body ideals and present didactic possibilities and challenges of the unit. We used a…
Descriptors: Human Body, Norms, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
Öhman, Marie – European Physical Education Review, 2017
The question of physical interaction is especially relevant in school physical education, where a lot of the teaching and activities are based on body movements. However, the issue of "touching" has been questioned in recent years. This paper takes its starting point in the discourse of child protection and the growing anxiety around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Interaction
Gunn Nyberg; Erik Backman; Richard Tinning – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
In this paper, we consider the challenges for Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) that were presented during the COVID-19 pandemic in regard to preservice teachers' knowledge in and about movement and their developing movement capability. Historically, learning about movement as well as learning in movement has always been central for…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Larsson, Håkan; Nyberg, Gunn – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Movement is key in physical education, but the educational value of moving is sometimes obscure. In Sweden, recent school reforms have endeavoured to introduce social constructionist concepts of knowledge and learning into physical education, where the movement capabilities of students are in focus. However, this means introducing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Motion, Physical Education
Moen, Kjersti Mordal; Westlie, Knut; Gerdin, Göran; Smith, Wayne; Linnér, Susanne; Philpot, Rod; Schenker, Katarina; Larsson, Lena – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
The Health and Physical Education (HPE) profession has increasingly advocated for caring teacher-student relationships. In this paper, we draw on data from an international research project called 'EDUHEALTH' [Education for Equitable Health Outcomes -- The Promise of School Health and Physical Education] to explore caring teaching and the…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Justice, Inclusion
Mikaels, Jonas – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2018
This study explores the educational potential of a place-responsive pedagogy to teaching and learning in "friluftsliv" within the Swedish physical education and health (PEH) curriculum. The study draws on qualitative empirical materials from a yearlong research project, together with a group of high school PEH teachers working in seventh…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Physical Education
Tolgfors, Björn – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Assessment "for" learning (AfL) is now marketed across the Western world as a key to an improved goal attainment in most school subjects. The concept has also attracted increased interest in the international research field of physical education (PE) in recent years. According to (Chan, K., P. J. Hay, and R. Tinning. 2011.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Formative Evaluation, Educational Theories, Instructional Effectiveness
Linnér, Susanne; Larsson, Lena; Gerdin, Göran; Philpot, Rod; Schenker, Katarina; Westlie, Knut; Mordal Moen, Kjersti; Smith, Wayne – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
For more than 40 years, health and physical education (HPE) academics in universities and teacher education colleges have drawn attention to issues of social justice specific to the context of PE and advocated for teachers in fields, gymnasiums and other physical activity spaces to do a better job of promoting more equitable outcomes for all…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Health Education, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
Schenker, Katarina; Linnér, Susanne; Smith, Wayne; Gerdin, Göran; Mordal Moen, Kjersti; Philpot, Rod; Larsson, Lena; Legge, Maureen; Westlie, Knut – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
The paper explores the concept of social justice in Health and Physical Education (HPE) as constituted and addressed across three different countries -- Sweden, Norway and New Zealand -- and how HPE teaching practices for social justice may be understood from regulative, normative and cultural/cognitive perspectives. Although much has been written…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Health Education, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
Ring, M.; Kristén, L.; Klingvall-Arvidsson, B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Many understandings about norms and norm criticism are based on imaginations of inclusion and exclusion as if values about right and wrong, and acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors belong to a world of relations that can be separated from embodied and physical things and practices. This preparatory study is based on interviews conducted with…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Inclusion, Children, Disabilities
SueSee, B.; Barker, D. M. – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2019
Physical education scholars have identified a number of factors that affect how teachers translate policy into practice. It is becoming clear that to create learning experiences that reflect the intention of guiding documents, teachers need to employ appropriate teaching styles. The aim of this paper was to determine whether the teaching styles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Styles, Creativity
Thoren, Anna; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Maivorsdotter, Ninitha – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: Previous research on inclusive physical education (PE) has often focused on pupils with visible physical disabilities and how best to facilitate and adapt PE so that they can play an active role in the educational situation. Many lessons about inclusion have emerged from this important field. However, less is known about more…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Ferry, Magnus – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: During the socialization process when becoming a physical education (PE) teacher, the knowledge, perceptions and expectations of what it means to work as a teacher are developed. In this socialization, the initial acculturation phase is shown to be of the most importance, since individual PE teachers' experiences during this phase are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation)