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Håkan Larsson; Dean Barker; Jan-Eric Ekberg; Christopher Engdahl; Anders Frisk; Gunn Nyberg – European Physical Education Review, 2025
Creative dance, that is to say, movements, with or without music, which allow participants to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings, are sometimes accompanied by a 'there is no right or wrong way to move' rhetoric. This may reinforce the impression among physical education teacher education (PETE) students, who often have limited experience of…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Dance, Creativity
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Björn Tolgfors; Mikael Quennerstedt; Erik Backman; Gunn Nyberg – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
As part of a longitudinal research project on the transition from physical education teacher education (PETE) to school physical education (PE) in Sweden and exploring whether and how PETE matters, this article uses narrative inquiry to 'represent' a PE teacher's professional journey from PETE to the induction phase of PE teaching. The study…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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C. Engdahl; S. Lundvall; D. Barker – Research in Dance Education, 2024
Physical education (PE), and specifically the teaching area of dance, has been identified as an important pedagogical setting within which young people develop creativity. Creativity is thus an important aspect of schooling. Several studies have suggested however, that dance is seldom taught in PE in ways that acknowledge creative aspects of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Dance Education, Creative Activities, Physical Education Teachers
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J. Mustell; S. Geidne; D. Barker – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: Various forms and types of knowledge have enjoyed legitimacy in physical education (PE) since sports techniques became the orienting idea for PE in economically advanced countries in the mid-twentieth century. The forms and types of knowledge granted legitimacy at any one moment are dependent on a range of socio-discursive factors. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Physical Education
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Valeria Varea; Ana Riccetti; Gustavo González-Calvo; Marcela Siracusa; Alfonso García-Monge – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2024
The aim of this paper is to explore what we have learned during the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of Physical Education in three different countries: Argentina, Spain and Sweden. Data were generated through semi-structured interviews, and the concept of field agency is used to make sense of the data. Differences were found among the three…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Physical Education, Comparative Education
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Engdahl, C.; Lundvall, S.; Barker, D. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: There is a global consensus that stimulating and fostering children's creativity in education is crucial. Addressing creativity has become an imperative in educational policies and in school curricula internationally. School-based physical education (PE), and specifically the teaching area of dance, has been identified as an important…
Descriptors: Creativity, Dance Education, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
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H. Bergentoft; C. Annerstedt; D. Barker; M. Holmqvist – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Background: Physical education (PE) teachers in practically all countries are expected to help their students develop movement capability. To achieve this objective, teachers need certain knowledge and competencies. The question of how PE teachers should develop their capacities to achieve this task has received only limited research attention.…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Knowledge Level, Physical Education, Teacher Competencies
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Isgren 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
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Barker, D.; Quennerstedt, M.; Johansson, A.; Korp, P. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: People often expect physical education teachers to look fit and athletic, to do lots of physical activity, and to eat well. While ample research exists on physical education teachers' bodies, relatively few scholars have investigated how physical educators relate corporeal expectations to broader ideas about subject content, pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Human Body, Expectation
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Korp, Peter; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Barker, Dean; Johansson, Anna – Health Education, 2023
Purpose: Over the last couple of decades, health has become a central part of the subject content in physical education (PE) curricula in many countries. As a result, issues of health have been foregrounded much more clearly in the teaching of PE. The aim of this study was to explore how Swedish PE teachers make sense of health in relation to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Larsson, Håkan; Nyberg, Gunn; Barker, Dean – European Physical Education Review, 2022
Movement learning has become a prominent issue in recent sport pedagogy research, including a particular concern about the new perspectives of movement learning. The turn towards new perspectives is partly spurred by discontent with the conventional perspectives of movement learning. The purpose of the article is to explore a journey into the…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Movement Education, Motion, Physical Education
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Kamoga, Seguya; Varea, Valeria – European Physical Education Review, 2022
Sweden received worldwide attention for its approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, throughout the pandemic, Sweden was one of the few countries that did not implement any lockdown measures. This meant that primary schools remained open and classes proceeded as usual, including the delivery of physical education (PE). This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Physical Education
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Jan Mustell; Susanna Geidne; Dean Barker – European Physical Education Review, 2024
Scholars have long questioned the impact of teacher education programmes. Persistent claims are that pre-service teachers have fixed ideas about pedagogy when they enter training and that they become enculturated once in the profession. Within physical education (PE), similar concerns have been raised with respect to ball games. Research suggests…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
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Lindkvist, Louise – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Research suggests that physical education (PE) needs to adapt to meet societies' changing needs and increased diversity amongst pupils. However, despite growing pressure from often competing sectoral interests, educational reforms, and new curricula directed at PE to bring about such changes, research has not seen a more profound impact. Many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Decision Making, Educational Change
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Forestier, Anthony; Larsson, Håkan – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
The aim of this study is to highlight gender norms in physical education (PE) dance lessons, in order to analyse how secondary school students, both girls and boys, negotiate these norms. To do this, we used Bourdieu's concept of masculine domination and Butler's theory of heteronormativity. Video material was collected from eight Swedish…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Physical Education, Secondary School Students, Power Structure
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