“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers
Curtner-Smith, Matthew D, Theodoulides, Andrew, Chappell, Anne, Harris, Elizabeth and Kinchin, Gary D. (2024) “I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers. European Physical Education Review. ISSN 1741-2749
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe the acculturation of six British physical education (PE) preservice teachers (PSTs). The research questions we sought to answer were: (a) What were the PSTs’ values, beliefs, and perspectives regarding PE? and (b) What factors shaped the PSTs’ values, beliefs, and perspectives during their acculturation? We collected data with three types of formal interviewing and employed standard interpretive techniques to reduce the data to themes. Key findings were that the PSTs aspired to a career teaching secondary PE, possessed a balanced orientation to teaching curricular PE and coaching extracurricular sport, and espoused a mostly traditional multi-activity curriculum that was dominated by sport. The main attractors to a career in PE were the opportunity to maintain a connection with sport and working with youth. The key shaper of the PSTs’ perspectives was their apprenticeships of observation. These findings should aid sport pedagogy faculty in their efforts to produce stronger initial teacher education programs.
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| Additional Information: | ** From Crossref journal articles via Jisc Publications Router ** History: epub 21-07-2024; issued 21-07-2024. |
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| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2024 10:45 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2024 10:45 |
| URI: | https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17862 |
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