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Impact of a model-based paralympic sports project in physical education on primary school pupils’ attitudes, self-efficacy, and intentions toward inclusion of peers with physical disabilities Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Erica Gobbi, Stefano Amatori, Fabrizio Perroni, Davide Sisti, Marco Rocchi, Nils Neuber
Decreased involvement in physical education (PE) among children with disabilities can result from negative attitudes toward peers with impairment. School-based paralympic sports programs may improv...
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Producing the well and skilled body: a critical discourse analysis of health and physical education curriculum policy in Aotearoa New Zealand Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Jiayuan Deng, Katie Fitzpatrick, Darren Powell
Aotearoa New Zealand is about to embark on a re-write of the official, national, health and physical education curriculum for all primary and secondary schools. This is a significant moment in poli...
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Discontinuity, risk, patience, and appeal: existential aspects of practising in physical education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Carl-Emil Marstrander Askildsen, Kenneth Aggerholm, Knut Løndal
For quite some time now, physical education (PE) scholars have expressed concerns about objectifying tendencies within the school subject of PE, calling for a fresh design that foregrounds students...
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Exploring the development of ‘understanding’ in high-level youth soccer players Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Amy Price, Dave Collins
Developing understanding, and tactical understanding in particular, is an important goal for coaches in high-level youth sport. Deeper understanding can be associated with metacognition, which in s...
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SENSE-ational schools: physical literacy enriched opportunities for students with neurodiversity Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Natalie Houser, Jeff Spiers, J. J. Ross, Dean Kriellaars
Given the various social, physical, and environmental factors at play during a physical education (PE) class, some components of the PE experience can be overstimulating for individuals with neurod...
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Pedagogical approaches to health-related physical education (PE) in the context of digitalisation – a scoping review Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Brit Teutemacher, Gorden Sudeck, Julia Hapke
There are varied consequences of digital transformation processes within the fitness and health-related living environments of adolescents (e.g. increased physical activity through wearables, body ...
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Early childhood physical activity parenting and sport club participation as predictors of perceived motor competence – a three-year longitudinal study Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Elina Meklin, A. Laukkanen, D. Niemistö, J. Kotkajuuri, N.-M. Luukkainen, A. Sääkslahti
Enhancing perceived motor competence (PMC) is an important factor in increasing the physical activity and motor competence of children. Longitudinal research is needed to identify the factors that ...
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Signature pedagogies of teacher education in physical education: a scoping review Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Mats Hordvik, Stephanie Beni
There is a need for contemporary studies which establish a shared language to further analyze and develop pedagogies in the field of teacher education in physical education (PE). This includes both...
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The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Sarah Metz, Benjamin Zander, Ina Hunger
The state of research on unsettling experiences of students in physical education can be characterized as fragmented. The available studies focus on select emotions (e.g. fear), specific forms of d...
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A model fidelity check in cooperative learning research in physical education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Damián Iglesias, Javier Fernandez-Rio
Fidelity is an essential component of research, theory and practice in pedagogical models in physical education [Hastie, P. A., and A. Casey. 2014. “Fidelity in Models-based Practice Research in Sp...
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Health-based physical education in an elementary school: effects on physical self-concept, motivation, fitness and physical activity Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Juan Gregorio Fernández-Bustos, Pablo Cuesta-Valera, David Zamorano-García, Juan Ángel Simón-Piqueras
Promoting and developing health in Physical Education should not be limited to seeking to meet recommendations for physical activity and to increase motor competence or physical fitness, but should...
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Physical literacy is associated with children's adherence to physical activity guidelines during COVID-19 Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Emiliano Mazzoli, Jingwen Xu, Lisa Michele Barnett
Background: Despite the benefits of physical activity, children’s compliance with physical activity recommendations is very low and this situation worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical li...
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A pre-longitudinal screen of performance in an integrated assessment of throwing and catching competence Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 B. M. Terlizzi, R. M. Hulteen, J. Rudd, R. S. Sacko, F. Sgrò, T. Jaakkola, T. C. Abrams, A. Brian, D. Nesbitt, A. De Meester, A. L. Fraley, D. F. Stodden
Background: The ability to adapt motor skill performance to a variety of conditions is vital to success in physical activity settings. Valid and reliable measurements of motor competence (MC) are c...
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A gymnastics coaches’ professional development program: exploring a needs-focused social learning space Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Koray Kılıç, Diane M. Culver, Mustafa Levent Ince
Background: Learning is a social, situational process. Effective coaches consistently apply situationally appropriate coaching knowledge to improve athletes’ developmental outcomes. Learning experi...
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The enactment of the Socially-Just Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (SJ-TPSR) approach in physical education teacher education: Teacher educators’ and pre-service teachers’ perspectives Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Dylan Scanlon, Maura Coulter, Kellie Baker, Deborah Tannehill
Research in teacher education practice explicitly highlights how learning to teach teachers is a complex, messy, sophisticated process, filled with uncertainty and perpetual challenges. While this ...
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Exploring the impact of a coach development programme through the perspectives of Saudi Arabian sport coaches Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ed Cope, Mansour Alsowayen, Saad Hosawi, Amro Turkistani, Christopher J. Cushion
Background: National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and National Sporting Organisations (NSOs) invest significant resources into the design and delivery of learning and development opportunities for sport...
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Towards an integration of physical activity and environmental awareness: analysis of students’ activity in physical education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kilian Mandrillon, Léa Gottsmann, Florent Desplanques
The need for greater attention to Environmental Education (EE) is increasing as awareness of the environmental emergency grows. However, Physical Education (PE), through its physical dimension and ...
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Using a coproduced educational workshop to change the focus of verbal instructions delivered by professional youth soccer coaches: a case study Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Matthew Andrew, Paul R. Ford, Allistair P. McRobert, Oliver Whitehead, Nathan C. Foster, Matthew T. Miller, Spencer J. Hayes
The predominant instructional method utilised by soccer coaches are verbal instructions that occur whilst (during) players are executing soccer-skill. However, little is known on the specificity of...
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Developing social and school facilitators for a positive school transition through a Sport Education and Service-Learning programme Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 David Gutiérrez, Luis M. García López, Yessica Segovia, Juan G. Fernández-Bustos, Irene González-Martí
Background: The transition from primary school to secondary school has negative effects on a significant part of the student body, such as a substantial decrease in self-esteem, motivation, academi...
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Exploring Korean elementary classroom teachers' practices of movement integration: the ten MI styles Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sanga Yun, Junhyuk Park, Euichang Choi
Movement Integration (MI) is widely recognized for its importance in promoting children's physical activity (PA) and academic achievement. Originating from different research traditions, two lines ...
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Supporting preservice teachers to implement an alternative physical education pedagogy on practicum Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Brendan Moy, Tony Rossi
Various student-centred teaching approaches have been promoted within physical education teacher education (PETE) courses for many years. However, building preservice teachers’ (PTs’) pedagogical s...
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Exploring socio-educational learning transfer between school and non-formal school football in six- and seven-year-old children Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Abel Merino Orozco, Alfredo Berbegal Vázquez, Ana Arraiz Pérez, Fernando Sabirón Sierra
Extracurricular activities are an inexorable training complement to the curricular learning promoted at school. Among the spectrum of possibilities, physical and sports activities stand out. School...
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Initial fidelity of a powered mobility intervention: a case report Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Michele A. Catena, Bethany M. Sloane, Heather A. Feldner, Lisa K. Kenyon, Samuel W. Logan
Powered mobility devices include any battery-operated and motorized device such as powered wheelchairs or modified ride-on cars. Off-the-shelf and battery-operated ride-on cars are modified through...
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Stakeholder perceptions of the feasibility of e-portfolio-based assessment of physical literacy in primary health and physical education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Jaxon Hogan, Dawn Penney, Eibhlish O’Hara, Joseph Scott
Physical literacy (PL) is widely acknowledged as an integral component of high-quality physical education programmes. However, what constitutes appropriate assessment of PL remains a contested issu...
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First-nation Australian children’s interpretation of a pictorial questionnaire designed to assess physical literacy Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Chathurani De Silva, Melanie Hawkins, Emiliano Mazzoli, Inimfon Aniema Essiet, Lisa M. Barnett
The Physical Literacy in Children Questionnaire (PL-C Quest) is a pictorial tool designed to measure children’s self-reported physical literacy. It measures 30 elements within the four domains (phy...
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deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Marina Castro-García, Dillon Landi, David Kirk
Physical education is seen as a subject that can both entrench but also challenge inequities. Within Spain, there is legislation requiring educators to teach about gender equity in schools across a...
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What keeps FLAME lit? Comparing two modes of implementation of a physical education-based intervention to improve motor competence among Irish adolescents Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Jiani Ma, Wesley O’Brien, Diarmuid Lester, Emma L. J. Eyre, Natalie Lander, Harriet Koorts, Lisa M. Barnett, Michael Duncan
Adequate levels of motor competence (MC) have been associated with multiple health outcomes. Despite the preponderance of effective MC interventions, globally, levels of MC in children and adolesce...
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Coach as youth development specialist: developing a TPSR-based coach training program and examining participants’ experiences Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Fritz I. Ettl Rodríguez, William R. Falcão, John McCarthy
Effective youth sport coaching encompasses the promotion of personal, social, and athletic skills in a deliberate and consistent manner. Coach training protocols that highlight coaches’ best-practi...
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Reflecting on student reflections in physical education practice: moving beyond a theory-and-practice divide Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Lars Bjørke, Mikael Quennerstedt
Although the theory/practice dualism seems difficult to deal with in physical education (PE) practice, this paper posits that there are ways in which teachers can enable students to develop holisti...
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An outdoor educator’s self-study of enacting a pedagogical model for outdoor adventure education to facilitate affective learning experiences Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Ciaran O’Carroll, Dylan Scanlon
Background: Outdoor Adventure Education (OAE) has a long history of being associated with the facilitation of affective learning experiences. This research explores this relationship between OAE an...
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‘Even with the craziness, it worked’: PE teachers working in and with an Activist Approach Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Jackie Beth Shilcutt, Kimberly L. Oliver, Raquel Aranda, Patty Mullany, Michael Ryan, Larissa True
As one pedagogical approach, an Activist Approach to teaching offers a structure for inquiry-oriented, learner-centered processes for context-specific educational endeavors (Oliver and Kirk [2015]....
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Is meaningful physical education and social justice a complimentary combination? A physical education teacher educator collaborative self-study Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 C. Iannucci, D. Ní Chróinín, C. Luguetti, D. Hamblin
Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programmes are expected to support future teacher learning about contemporary innovations and big ideas for teaching physical education. Teacher educator...
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Arnold wanted X but we got Y – the Queensland senior physical education syllabus application of the Arnoldian perspective Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Brendan SueSee, Shane Pill, John Williams
For over two decades, the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) has used Arnold’s tri-dimensional perspective of movement (1979, 1988) as a framework for its senior Physical Educati...
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Opinions on grading and difficulties encountered by physical education and health teachers in relation to assessment Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 David Bezeau, Jonathan R. Chevrier, Maïa Savard
Background: Assessment plays a key role in quality physical education and health [PEH; Leirhaug and Annerstedt (2016. “Assessing with New Eyes? Assessment for Learning in Norwegian Physical Educati...
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Motor skills intervention: conceptual and operational model and the determination of fidelity indexes Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Nadia Cristina Valentini
Determining intervention fidelity measures is a crucial methodologic requirement of any sound intervention; however, fidelity must be implemented within the intervention’s conceptual and operation ...
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Motor competence, motivation and enjoyment in physical education to profile children in relation to physical activity behaviors Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jaime Carcamo-Oyarzun, Christian Herrmann, Erin Gerlach, Sonia Salvo-Garrido, Isaac Estevan
Motor competence (MC) has been recognized as a main goal in Physical Education (PE) and a determining element for the promotion of Physical Activity (PA). The interaction between MC and PA would be...
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Positive and negative effects of close-knit relationships among teachers in a community of practice Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Keejoon Yoon, Hyunwoo Jung
Background: Participation in communities of practice (CoPs) by physical education (PE) teachers as an effective learning strategy has gained widespread acceptance over the past three decades. Howev...
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Informal learning processes in the daily practice of one German PE teacher Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Jonas Wibowo
Background: Physical education (PE) teachers’ learning processes are one important factor influencing the quality of PE and the learning outcomes of their students. To conceptualise learning for th...
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Exploring pedagogies of embodiment in physical education teacher education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Øyvind F. Standal, Vegard Faanes Aaring, David Kirk
Various forms of social scientific approaches to the body, utilising concepts such as embodiment, embodied identity, and subjectivity have garnered increasing attention in physical education and ph...
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Capoeira as a critical pedagogy tool in physical education: from a continuing professional development program to the classroom Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Evelyn Ríos-Valdés, Susanna Soler, Mercè Mateu
In this globalized world with a predominantly Eurocentric/androcentric approach to physical education (PE) teaching, there is a need to broaden school curricula from a critical, decolonizing approa...
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Teachers’ sensemaking in implementation of Meaningful Physical Education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Stephanie Beni, Déirdre Ní Chróinín, Tim Fletcher, Jo Bailey, Leticia Cariño Fraisse, Marcus Down, Mel Hamada, Ty Riddick, Milena Trojanovic, Kristen Gross
While PE has arguably changed little since the 1960s, there is a rich history of the development of innovations in PE pedagogy. A key challenge lies in the sustained and broad use of these innovati...
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‘it’s about bringing people together’: one middle school physical education teacher’s attempt at deploying character education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Jamie Jacob Brunsdon
Despite the field’s rich history and relationship with the concept of character education, to date, there would appear to be no in-depth empirical case studies that describe in pedagogical terms, h...
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Intervention fidelity: multiple strategies to design, implement, and assess mastery motivational climate behavioral interventions Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jerraco L. Johnson, Danielle D. Wadsworth, Mary E. Rudisill
ABSTRACT Background Mastery motivational climate (MMC) interventions are an evidence-based approach utilized to deliver motor skill interventions (MSI) for young children. There are 6 environmental characteristics and instructional cues an instructor must appropriately manipulate to implement a MMC. These are known as the TARGET and stand for Task, Authority, Recognition, Grouping, Evaluation, and
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The effect of specialized content knowledge in reciprocal peer learning in a university content class Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Tom Madou, Fien Depaepe, Phillip Ward, Peter Iserbyt
ABSTRACT Background Teaching strategies using peers to influence student-learning outcomes are commonly used in physical education. Reciprocal peer learning is a teaching strategy where students work in pairs as tutor and tutee. Effective peer tutoring requires knowledge about the critical elements for correct performance (i.e. common content knowledge, CCK) and knowing how to detect and address common
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Developing embodied competence while becoming a PE teacher: PETE students’ embodied experiences and reflections after micro-teaching Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Tonje Fjogstad Langnes, Judith Helene Bratten
ABSTRACT Background: Becoming a PE teacher is a multifaceted process that involves many complexities and contextual specificities. Entering their physical education teacher education (PETE) programme, student teachers are in a vulnerable position as they are uncertain of their professional subjectivities. During their PETE programme, students are introduced to different understandings and practises
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Selecting (or not) physical education as an elective subject: Spanish high school students’ views Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Javier Fenandez-Rio, Salvador García, Alberto Ferriz-Valero
ABSTRACT Background: The interactions between behavior, environment and personal factors are the basis of the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, A. 1986. Social Foundations of Thought and Action. NJ: Prentice Halls). Within this theory, students’ behavior and motivation toward an activity is dependent on their feelings, thoughts and beliefs (Lodewyck and Pybus 2013. “Investigating Factors in the Retention
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Digital technology in game-based approaches: video tagging in football in PE Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Henrike Diekhoff, Steffen Greve
ABSTRACT Background: The use of digital technology in physical education (PE) is widely debated. PE is influenced by children’s everyday lives and by changes in society, including the powerful presence of digital technology. However, there is little research on using digital technology in the context of invasion games in primary school PE. The possibility of combining video tagging and the didactic-methodical
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How pupils’ playfulness creates possibilities for pleasure and learning in physical education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Iselin Aartun, Karen Lambert, Kristin Walseth
ABSTRACT Background Physical education has been described as too instrumental and uncritical, where a focus on utility has limited the value of pleasure in movement. Decades of previous research has addressed the need for changes where embodied experiences and learning are emphasized [Kirk, David, and Richard Tinning. 1994. “Embodied Self-Identity, Healthy Lifestyles and School Physical Education.”
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Critical contextual factors of sustainable online teaching: learning the lessons of pandemic times from physical education teachers’ and school administrators’ perspectives Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Amy Sau-Ching Ha, Cecilia Hoi Sze Chan, Natalie Lander
ABSTRACT Background The COVID-19 pandemic has upended schooling around the world and prompted a shift to online teaching and learning, including in primary (elementary) physical education (PE). PE is typically characterized by physicality and close proximity to others, the shift to online delivery has drastically changed this landscape and brings significant consequences for the future of PE in schools
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Reading curriculum as cultural practice: interrogating colonialism and whiteness in Ontario’s Health and Physical Education curriculum Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 LeAnne Petherick
ABSTRACT Background This paper highlights the cultural construction of health in Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum. Using Kanu’s approach to reading the curriculum as cultural practice, I interrogate how the construction of ‘healthy lifestyle’ in particular is positioned within government policy. In this way, diverse cultural understandings of health are foregrounded to consider how race
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A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Shaun D. Wilkinson, Dawn Penney
ABSTRACT Background Gendered grouping practices and curriculum provision are matters of long-standing contention and debate in physical education (PE) policy, research, and practice internationally. In England, there is a long tradition of single-sex grouping in PE in secondary schools, with accompanying gendered patterns of staffing and many boys and girls taught different activities in the curriculum
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Parental engagement and implementation fidelity in a mHealth motor skills intervention for young children Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-15 Amanda E. Staiano, Sanjoy Saha, Robbie A. Beyl, Chelsea L. Kracht, Robert L. Newton Jr, E. Kipling Webster
ABSTRACT Introduction Mobile apps (i.e. mHealth) provide unprecedented opportunity for widespread dissemination of health behavior programs. However, for programs directed towards young children, parental engagement may explain differing results of mHealth programs. Within the context of an app-based fundamental motor skill (FMS) intervention that improved children’s motor skills (PLAY), this paper
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Observing physical education teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles using a circumplex approach: how does it relate to student outcomes? Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Nele Van Doren, Katrien De Cocker, Nele Flamant, Sofie Compernolle, Ruben Vanderlinde, Leen Haerens
ABSTRACT Background: Self-Determination Theory-based studies showed that teachers’ need-supportive styles (i.e. autonomy-supportive and structuring) enhance students’ motivation and well-being, while teachers’ need-thwarting styles (i.e. being controlling and chaotic), have been related to several detrimental outcomes. The value of jointly depicting teachers’ need-supportive and need-thwarting styles
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Effects of cooperative learning in youth athletics’ motivational climate, peer relationships and self-concept Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Lea Železnik Mežan, Branko Škof, Bojan Leskošek, Saša Cecić Erpič
ABSTRACT Background Youth sport is threatened by an enormous dropout of prospective athletes. For this reason, we sought a training approach that would enhance young athletes’ learning in areas that should be critical for their retention in sport. According to current literature, a mastery motivational climate, good peer relationships and a good self-concept should have a positive impact on the length
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Basketball shorts, plantation food, and ponytail weaves: Black teachers’ experiences of becoming and being a Physical Education teacher Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Louis Francis-Edge, Annette Stride, Hayley Fitzgerald
ABSTRACT Background Despite increases in the ethnic diversity of the student population within English schools, there remains a distinct lack of Black and minority ethnic representation within the teaching profession. Research has explored the reasons behind this lacuna within education more broadly, highlighting discrimination, verbal abuse, lack of management support, and racial inequalities in pay
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Physical education teachers’ assessment practices in health education Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 David Bezeau, Sylvain Turcotte, Jean-François Desbiens, Carlo Spallanzani, Martin Roy, François Vandercleyen, Sylvie Beaudoin
ABSTRACT Background This article focuses on the assessment of health education (HE) in physical education (PE). PE is one of the school disciplines that can contribute substantially to educational actions in HE (Kirk, D. 2018. “Physical Education-as-Health Promotion: Recent Developments and Futures Issues.” Education and Health 36 (3): 70–75). However, studies conducted on PE teachers’ practices indicate
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Doing and saying content: a comparative analysis of the practical knowledge in PE lessons Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Daniel Schiller, Benjamin Zander
ABSTRACT Background: Content of physical education, such as games, fitness or dance as well as their adequate didactical (re-)presentation for learning purposes are central topics of discussion in sports pedagogy. The concrete processes that constitute the content of PE lessons in situ tend to remain unconsidered in the discussion. Thus, there is a particular lack of detailed studies that can describe
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Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 B. Tolgfors, D. Barker, G. Nyberg, H. Larsson
ABSTRACT Background Principles such as instructional alignment and step-by-step progression are often seen as crucial features of good assessment practices in school physical education (PE). These features are problematic from nonlinear educational perspectives, which are based on the idea that movement learning cannot be expected to take place in the same manner for all students. Without some resolution
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Positive youth development through sport and physical education: a systematic review of empirical research conducted with grade 5 to 12 children and youth Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Luís Almeida, Teresa Dias, Nuno Corte-Real, Isabel Menezes, António Fonseca
ABSTRACT Background Over the two last decades, the interest in personal and psychosocial youth development has been growing due to its engagement in sport activities. Furthermore, participation in sport has been referenced as a favourable mechanism and context for positive youth development (PYD). However, some studies and researchers continue to question the linearity of this association. Considering
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Coach experiences of formal coach education developed by national governing bodies: a systematic review Phys. Educ. Sport. Peda. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Zhenlong Wang, Ashley Casey, Ed Cope
ABSTRACT Background The education and training of coaches is considered central to maintaining and improving the quality of coaching. Formal coach education is accessed by thousands of coaches each year. However, evidence would suggest this form of learning plays only a minor role in coaches’ development. One possible reason for this is the lack of consideration of the coaches’ perspective in the design