Health, Physical Education Content, and Teacher Knowledge/Identity

2017 ◽  
pp. 157-171
Author(s):  
Colleen Fadale ◽  
Pamela Powell
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Teacher Knowledge

“Whatever Is Comfortable:” Secondary Physical Educators’ Curricular Decision Making: Issues of Knowledge and Gendered Performativity

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ferry ◽  
Nate McCaughtry
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Teacher Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Physical Educators ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Curricular Content ◽  
Knowledge Theory ◽  
Curricular Decision Making

Throughout history there have been debates as to what content knowledge (CK) is of most value for physical education (PE). Much recent conversation has circulated around the hope that time spent in PE supports students’ regular participation in physical activity (PA). Researchers’ use of the term PA, however, often stresses the similarities while ignoring important differences. Utilizing teacher knowledge theory, feminist poststructural scholarship, and interpretive methodologies we attempted to better understand how teachers selected curricular content by examining their CK. We found that the teachers’ PA biographies led them to develop deeply embodied and gendered knowledge and competencies, or ±comfort,“ when it came to teaching particular PAs, and this was a major factor in how they selected curricular content. Implications of the study highlight the socially constructed nature of teacher CK and issues associated with secondary PE curricula and wider physical activity culture(s).

Health Optimizing Physical Education (HOPE): A New Curriculum for School Programs—Part 2: Teacher Knowledge and Collaboration

2013 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Metzler ◽  
Thomas L. McKenzie ◽  
Hans van der Mars ◽  
Shannon L. Barrett-Williams ◽  
Rebecca Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Teacher Knowledge ◽  
School Programs ◽  
New Curriculum

Health and Physical Education

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Callcott ◽  
Judith Miller ◽  
Susan Wilson-Gahan
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Health And Physical Education
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