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Direct linkApelmo, Elisabet – Sport, Education and Society, 2022
This article discusses dis/ability and physical education teacher education (PETE). The aim is twofold. First, I explore how dis/ability is problematised in PETE syllabi from nine Swedish universities. Bacchi's "What's the problem represented to be?" approach for analysing policy texts is used. The centre of attention thus shifts from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Students with Disabilities
Light, Richard; Curry, Christina; Mooney, Amanda – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
As a well-developed indicator of high-quality teaching in any subject area we use the New South Wales (NSW) Quality Teaching Framework (QTF) in this article to identify what might constitute quality teaching in physical education and to suggest the extent to which Game Sense pedagogy can be seen to meet the expectations of the NSW QTF. We identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Instructional Effectiveness, Physical Education
Barker, Dean M.; Barker-Ruchti, Natalie; Puhse, Uwe – Sport, Education and Society, 2013
In this paper we illustrate how ways of thinking about ethics are tied up with sport and physical education practice and introduce an alternative approach that can help to develop ethical pedagogies. We begin by locating socio-moral education in physical education within historical and contemporary pedagogical scholarship. Our argument is that the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Physical Education, Athletics, Ethical Instruction
Kirby, Joanna; Levin, Kate A.; Inchley, Jo – Health Education Research, 2012
This paper explores school sports facility provision, physical education allocation and opportunities for physical activity and their association with the number of days adolescent girls participate in at least 60 min of moderate-vigorous physical activity per week (MVPAdays). Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires from…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Team Sports, Physical Activities, Females
Shen, Bo – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This prospective study was designed to investigate the influence of high students' perceived teacher autonomy support in mandatory physical education on their intention and actual enrollment in elective physical education. Participants included 545 ninth-grade students enrolled in three suburban high schools in a major midwestern metropolitan…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Physical Education, Elective Courses, Enrollment Influences
Metzler, Michael – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2009
A debate over the quality of teacher education programs has been ongoing for nearly 100 years. The most current round in this debate started with "A Nation at Risk" (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) and has escalated in recent years to involve an increasing number of participant-constituents, each of whom has voiced…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Excellence in Education, Rhetoric
Ensergueix, Pierre Jean; Lafont, Lucile – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2010
Students often do not take full advantage of peer tutoring instructional strategies because they are not sufficiently prepared to fulfill the role of tutor. This study examined whether implementing a peer tutor training program prior to the beginning of reciprocal peer tutoring (RPT) sessions might help overcome this issue. Gender differences were…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Physical Education, Self Efficacy, Tutor Training
Morrow, James R., Jr.; Martin, Scott B.; Jackson, Allen W. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality (reliability and validity) of large-scale fitness testing in Texas and determine if reliabilities and validities were related to potential confounding variables. Four test administration scenarios were conducted to investigate the quality of data collected statewide as part of the Texas…
Descriptors: Health Related Fitness, Tests, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Hill, Grant M.; Cleven, Brian – High School Journal, 2006
The purposes of this study were to determine physical education activity preferences of 9th grade students in a southern California school district and to compare preferences by ethnicity. Results indicated that basketball, football, bowling, softball/baseball, swimming, and volleyball were the most preferred activities. These preferences may be…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Curriculum Design, Physical Education Teachers, Ethnicity
Jaakkola, Timo; Liukkonen, Jarmo; Laakso, Timo; Ommundsen, Yngvar – European Physical Education Review, 2008
The aim of the study was to investigate the relationships between situational and contextual self-determined motivation and physical activity intensity as measured by heart rates during a ninth-grade students' physical education (PE) class. The participants of the study were 139 Finnish ninth-grade students (15-year-olds). The data were collected…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Motivation
Sinelnikov, Oleg; Hastie, Peter – European Physical Education Review, 2008
Given Russian students' general lack of group work and opportunities to develop student responsibility in their prior schooling experiences, the purpose of this study was to examine how a group of Russian high school students responds to novel demands of participation in a sport education season. Forty-two students from two ninth-grade physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Systems, Student Journals, Student Responsibility
Hill, Grant; Cleven, Brian – Physical Educator, 2005
The purposes of this study were to determine the physical education activity preferences of 9th grade students in a southern California school district, to identify which activities students felt should be offered in coeducation or gender separate formats, and to determine whether physical education is one of their favorite classes. Results…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Physical Education, Coeducation, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
