Using features of meaningful experiences to guide primary physical education practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Beni ◽  
Tim Fletcher ◽  
Déirdre Ní Chróinín
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Motor Competence ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
Preliminary Support

Providing meaningful experiences in physical education has long been identified as a key objective for teachers to strive toward. Supported by a critical friend, a beginning teacher used self-study methodology to analyse ways she drew from the features of meaningful experiences to guide her planning and instruction in primary physical education. Data from a striking/fielding games (e.g. softball, cricket) unit were collected and analysed. Results demonstrate how the teacher came to use the features of meaningful experiences (i.e. social interaction, fun, challenge, motor competence, personally relevant learning, and delight) in integrated ways to guide her planning and instruction in physical education. Through committing to prioritising meaningfulness and reconceptualising ways an experience may be meaningful, the teacher was able to foster these experiences for students primarily through using features of meaningful experiences to filter her decisions. This study offers preliminary support for pedagogies and approaches teachers may use to prioritise meaningful experiences in primary physical education.

Using meaningful experiences as a vision for physical education teaching and teacher education practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 598-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Déirdre Ní Chróinín ◽  
Stephanie Beni ◽  
Tim Fletcher ◽  
Ciara Griffin ◽  
Caitlin Price
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Meaningful Experiences

scholarly journals The Challenges of Models-Based Practice in Physical Education Teacher Education: A Collaborative Self-Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Fletcher ◽  
Ashley Casey
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Physical Education Teacher Education ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Self Study ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting

There are two purposes of this study. The first is to examine our experiences as beginning teacher educators who taught using models-based practice (using the example of Cooperative Learning). The second is to consider the benefits of using collaborative self-study to foster deep understandings of teacher education practice. The findings highlight the challenges in adapting school teaching practices to the university setting, and the different types of knowledge required to teach about the “hows” and “whys” of a models-based approach. We conclude by acknowledging the benefits of systematic study of practice in helping to unpack the complexities and challenges of teaching about teaching. Our collaborative self-study enabled us to develop insights into the intertwined nature of self and practice, and the personal and professional value of our research leads us to encourage teacher educators to examine and share their challenges and understandings of teaching practice.

scholarly journals Tensions Associated With Enacting Care Theory: A Self Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Tucker ◽  
Brian Lewthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Care Theory ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

This study attempts to locate care and caring in teaching practice. Specifically, the study examines how one pre-service teacher, with a personal imperative to care, mediates the space between performativity and caringUsing self-study methodology, the study attempts to make sense of the “theory/action dialectic” (Osborne, 2003, p. 17) of enacting care theory in a classroom through these tensions. Through the recursive analysis of a self-study research portfolio with a critical friend, the study revealed two key tensions between one’s actions and intent and between safety and challenge. The study produced significant implications for my own personal and pedagogical development as a beginning teacher. Furthermore, it has implications for future research into pre-service teacher learning and the way teachers both problematise their practice and consider care in early childhood classrooms.

Developing Principles of Practice for Implementing Models-Based Practice: A Self-Study of Physical Education Teacher Education Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Kellie Baker
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Physical Education Teacher ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Physical Education Teacher Education ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Principles Of Practice

Purpose: Models-Based Practice (MBP) has been suggested as one possible physical education future. However, there are few examples that consider the challenges faced implementing MBP. The purpose of this research is to develop and articulate principles of practice for implementing MBP in physical education teacher education. Method: Self-Study of Teacher Education Practice methodology guided collection of teacher educator and preservice teacher (n = 9) data. Results: Principles of practice are identified: (a) providing opportunities for beginning teachers to analyze their learning about and through MBP provides unique insights into using MBP, (b) experiencing and examining alternatives to MBP provides preservice teachers with opportunities to practice pedagogical decision making, and (c) individual and group meetings support teacher educators and preservice teachers in crystallizing understandings of MBP implementation. Conclusion: The articulation of principles of practice offers insights into how teacher educator practice might be examined, developed, and shared for use by others.

The purpose of this study was to examine the changes and trends of physical education curriculum and suggest educational implications for elementary fitness education. Data which were collected from PENC(Physical Education National Curriculum) and research reports were analyzed according to 1) objectives, 2) contents, 3) teaching methods and evaluations. The findings suggest that 1) objectives of PENC was changed from second order and ultimate objectives to instrumental objectives, 2) contents of PENC was changed from play and exercise-oriented to activity-oriented. 3) teaching methods of PENC was changed from passive assessment and prescriptions to self-oriented practice and check. Evaluations was changed from objective fitness testing to process-based comprehensive evaluation. Building on these key findings, the implications for elementary fitness education are as follows: First, elementary fitness education should be strengthened to enhance lifelong healthy life style for learners. Second, elementary fitness education should takes into account more learner’s interest and growth level. Third, elementary fitness education should be taught and evaluate students to continue to participate in activities of their own willingness.

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
Mirim Park ◽  
Kyunghwan Jang
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Fitness Testing ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Fitness Education ◽  
Education Data ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Healthy Life Style

scholarly journals Preparing teachers for HIV/AIDS education: integrated and interdisciplinary pre-service teacher education

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Van Laren
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Intermediate Phase ◽  
Aids Education ◽  
Integrated Models ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Study ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article focuses on the views of pre-service teachers regarding an appropriate model for integrating HIV/AIDS education at a Faculty of Education. The final-year foundation and intermediate phase teachers were introduced to integrating HIV/AIDS education in Mathematics education and reflected on their four years of training. By using self-study methodology, the opinions and experiences of pre-service teachers of the two models of HIV/AIDS education in teacher preparation were explored, aiming to improve the manner in which pre-service teachers could be prepared to teach in the social and educational context of HIV/AIDS. The pre-service teachers indicated that they are under-prepared to teach in this context. Pre-service teachers were of the opinion that they could, however, be better prepared through HIV/AIDS teacher education that includes both discipline/subject and integrated models of teacher education

scholarly journals The reality of inclusion in physical education in the Brazilian school system

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (Esp.) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Eliane Mauerberg de Castro ◽  
Gabriella Andreetta Figueiredo ◽  
Debra Frances Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Systems Theory ◽  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
School System ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Dynamic Systems Theory ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Brazilian Government ◽  
Movement Culture

Our purpose in this article was threefold. First, we attempted to analyze evidences of inclusion in the Brazilian school, and we argued that inclusion still is a long road ahead, particularly, in the field of physical education. In relation to inclusion, we used data provided by the Brazilian government itself to demonstrate several issues of concern, including some with educational governing bodies. Second, we examined how the Brazilian physical education national curriculum parameters have been tailored in their pedagogical recommendations to accommodate the “movement culture” approach. Although physical educators endorsed the new curricular directives, their practice in school with inclusion revealed troublesome situations. Overall, they admitted that they did not feel prepared to work with students with disability in their classes, and they feel that they need continuing education, as well as actual administrative/government investments. Third, we introduced concepts from dynamic systems theory to our adapted physical education practice while working with people with disabilities in inclusive settings. We illustrated the theory in its application to the physical education practices by reporting a lifetime of work in outreach programs in the field of adapted physical activity (APA), at São Paulo State University at Rio Claro. The complexities in the practice of inclusive school physical education require a holistic approach, which we feel can be accomplished through the employment of dynamic systems concepts. Whether epistemological directions include the movement culture approach or dynamic systems theory, or a hybrid, these efforts must be sustained by committed teachers, the school system, government leaders, families, and the entire community.

Impacto de la pandemia por COVID19 en la percepción de competencia motriz de escolares de la ciudad de Temuco, Chile (Impact of the COVID19 pandemic on the perception of motor competence in schoolchildren from Temuco, Chile)

Retos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 361-369
Author(s):  
Jaime Carcamo-Oyarzun ◽  
Francisco Romero-Rojas ◽  
Isaac Estevan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Physical Education Class ◽  
Motor Competence ◽  
Object Control ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Didactic Strategies

  En el ámbito del desarrollo motor, la percepción de la competencia motriz es considerada como uno de los mecanismos subyacentes más importantes que influyen en la adherencia a la práctica de actividad física, siendo las clases de Educación Física una de las instancias más pertinentes para su desarrollo. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar, en condiciones de confinamiento y de cierre de las escuelas por COVID-19, cómo la percepción de la competencia motriz evoluciona durante el tiempo en que el alumnado no ha tenido Educación Física de manera presencial. Participaron 104 estudiantes (52,9% niñas; M = 10,9 años de edad; D.T. = 0,69), quienes contestaron el cuestionario SEMOK de evaluación de la competencia motriz percibida, tanto en 2019 (T1) como en 2020 (T2). Los resultados del modelo mixto no mostraron un efecto principal del periodo de confinamiento sobre la percepción de competencia motriz (p > ,05), mientras que en cada una de los tiempos de medición se encontraron diferencias significativas en función del sexo, donde los niños mostraron una mayor percepción de competencia motriz en control de objetos que las niñas (p < ,001). Los estudiantes mantuvieron una percepción similar desde T1 hasta T2, mostrando una estabilidad en la percepción de su competencia motriz durante este periodo de confinamiento, lo que coincide con los escasos estudios que han investigado esta temática siguiendo procedimientos prospectivos. Además, se confirma el rol que el sexo ejerce en la percepción de la competencia motriz, aspecto que debe ser considerado al momento de desarrollar estrategias didácticas en Educación Física.  Abstract. In the field of motor development, the perception of motor competence is considered one of the most important underlying mechanisms that influence the adherence to the practice of physical activity, where Physical Education classes are one of the most relevant instances for its development. The present study aims to analyze how the perception of motor competence evolves in conditions of confinement and closed schools because of COVID-19 during the time in which the students have not had Physical Education classes in a face-to-face manner. 104 students (52.9% girls; age M=10.9; S.D.=0.69) participated and answered the SEMOK questionnaire for assessing perceived motor competence in both 2019 (T1) and 2020 (T2). The results of the mixed model did not present major effects of the confinement period on the perception of motor competence (p>.05), while in each of the periods significant differences were found according to gender, with boys showing a higher perception of motor competence in object control than girls (p<.001). The students maintained a similar perception from T1 to T2, showing stability in the perception of their motor competence during the period of confinement, which coincides with the few studies that have studied this subject, following prospective procedures. In addition, the role of gender in the perception of motor competence is confirmed and should be considered when developing didactic strategies for Physical Education class.

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