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Direct linkGerard Masdeu Yélamos; Malcom MacLachlan; Catherine Carty; Sarah Carney – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
The role of sport as a contributor to sustainable development and human rights is well established. However, evidence on sports professionals' understanding of its contribution and their readiness to maximize its impact in this field is insufficient. This study aimed to ascertain sports practitioners' understanding and application of human rights…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Athletics, Physical Education, Curriculum Development
Schubring, Astrid; Bergentoft, Heléne; Barker, Dean – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2021
'Characteristics and consequences of different body ideals' are a mandatory curriculum content in Swedish physical education (PE). Didactic strategies for teaching on body ideals are, however, scarce. In this paper, we introduce a classroom-based teaching unit on body ideals and present didactic possibilities and challenges of the unit. We used a…
Descriptors: Human Body, Norms, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
Guadalupe, Tasha; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
A growing body of research has suggested that teachers who give their students the opportunity to voice their opinions by purposefully negotiating the curriculum can improve engagement and realize a number of important affective goals. In this paper, we describe the study of one teacher, Jennifer, as she attempted to purposefully negotiate the…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Curriculum Development
Olive, Lisa S.; Byrne, Don; Cunningham, Ross B.; Telford, Rohan M.; Telford, Richard D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Physical activity may benefit mental health, yet the potentially protective role of elementary school physical education (PE) on childhood mental health is unknown. The aim of the current study was to determine the effect of a specialist-taught PE program on indicators of childhood mental health. In this cluster-randomized controlled trial,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Suburban Schools
Wilkinson, Shaun; Littlefair, David; Barlow-Meade, Linda – European Physical Education Review, 2013
In sport, schools and physical education (PE) ability has invariably been understood as an inherent and relatively immutable capacity, amendable to varying degrees by interventions such as training regimes and education. Differences in achievement are assumed to be an inevitable consequence of natural variations in ability and an indication of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Ability, Student Attitudes
Culpepper, Dean O.; Tarr, Susan J.; Killion, Lorraine E. – Physical Educator, 2011
Researchers have suggested that physical education curricula can be highly effective in increasing physical activity levels at school (Sallis & Owen, 1999). The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of various curriculum models on physical activity. Total steps were measured on 1,111 subjects and three curriculum models were studied…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Models
Larsson, Hakan; Redelius, Karin – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: Research on the school subject of physical education and health in Sweden has proliferated in the early part of the 21st century. Several large research programmes have been conducted that shed light on the history of physical education and health in this country and that provide a research-based description of the current situation in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Leisure Time
Connell, Raewyn – Sport, Education and Society, 2008
Current debates about the role of sports in boys' education are part of a larger discussion of men, boys and masculinities. In this paper I reflect on this debate and the research it has led to. I highlight questions of embodiment, of relations between different forms of masculinity, and questions of reproduction and change, in all of which the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Physical Education, Educational Change, Males
Kahan, David – Physical Educator, 2008
Flag or touch football is a popular activity unit in American secondary physical education curricula. However, unlike other sports its stigmatization as a masculine-typed activity and frequent inequitable distribution of game play opportunities at the skill positions (e.g., receiver, quarterback) results in the marginalization of female…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Coeducation, Majors (Students)
