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- Title
Junior Primary/Primary pre-service teachers' perceptions of their work as effective teachers of physical education.
- Authors
Pill, Shane
- Abstract
Few would argue that an important facet in achieving healthy lifestyles in the general Australian population is effective primary school physical education programs. These, in turn, depend on the knowledge and commitment of primary school teachers, many of whom are not physical education specialists, but are charged with implementing both daily fitness and physical education programs. The junior primary/primary pre-service teachers who participated in this study take a compulsory one semester topic in physical education as part of their preparation for teaching. The study investigated their perceptions of their work as primary years' physical education teachers following their first school teaching practicum experience, as one strategy for reviewing the effectiveness of the compulsory topic. Systematic interpretative inquiry adapting a model of intervention suggested by Brunelle et al (1998 in Fraser-Thomas & Beaudoin, 2002, p251) to thematically link and tag the data allowed for participants' insights to emerge. The results suggest junior primary/primary pre-service teachers understand that planning for physical education in the primary school setting is a pre-requisite both for explicit student motor skill development, and for physical education to be more than a "brain break". Along with purposeful planning for explicit skill teaching, the study reveals participants' positioning of developmental, student-centred pedagogy as important in the construction of primary years' physical education. The study also reveals discontinuity between the pre-service teachers' perception of their work as physical education teachers in the primary years and their actual experiences in the school setting.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; PHYSICAL education teachers; PRIMARY school teachers; PHYSICAL education; EDUCATIONAL programs; PRIMARY education
- Publication
ACHPER Australia Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 2007, Vol 54, Issue 3/4, p25
- ISSN
1445-8918
- Publication type
Article