ERIC Number: EJ1413597
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0273-5024
EISSN: EISSN-1543-2769
Recycling and Resistance to Change in Physical Education: The Informal Recruitment of Physical Education Teachers in Schools
Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, v43 n1 p21-30 2024
Purpose: Physical education (PE) teachers' interactions with students were explored to examine self-selection for PE teaching as a career option during school. Method: Semistructured life story interviews were conducted with 29 PE teachers at different career stages. Complementing occupational socialization, Bourdieu's habitus, capital, field, and practice were adopted as thinking tools to inform thematic analysis. Results: Three key themes were identified: (a) acceptance into the inner sanctum based on physical competence, effort, and enthusiasm for the traditional curriculum; (b) opportunities provided to students accepted into the inner sanctum, and (c) outside the inner sanctum: mismatched habitus and self-selection for PE teaching. Conclusion: Students exchanged competence, effort, and enthusiasm in the traditional curriculum for acceptance and opportunities to encourage self-selection for teaching PE. Without acceptance, individuals experienced challenges gaining career support. Dominated by a homogenous group resistant to change, PE needs independent careers information to promote change through heterogeneity.
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Career Choice, Teacher Student Relationship, Socialization, Attitudes, Curriculum, Resistance to Change, Teacher Recruitment, Individual Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies
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