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The Impact of Occupational Socialization on Physical Education Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs about Four Important Curricular Outcomes: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Adamakis, Manolis; Zounhia, Katerina – European Physical Education Review, 2016
Most national Physical Education (PE) curriculums worldwide are based on a variety of outcome goals. The most important are physical activity and fitness, self-actualization, motor skill development and social development. Capturing PE Teacher Education pre-service teachers' beliefs toward these outcomes may offer a useful insight into the process…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
Water: The Ideal Early Learning Environment
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Grosse, Susan J. – Exceptional Parent, 2008
Bathtubs and swimming pools provide the ideal learning environment for people with special needs. For young preschool children, the activities that take place through water can help them develop physical fitness, facilitate motor development, reinforce perceptual-motor ability, encourage social development, and enhance self-esteem and confidence.…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Disabilities, Preschool Children, Self Esteem
Preservice Teachers' Belief Systems toward Curricular Outcomes for Physical Education
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Kulinna, Pamela Hodges; Brusseau, Timothy; Ferry, Matthew; Cothran, Donetta – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This study was grounded in the belief systems and physical activity literature and investigated preservice teachers' belief systems toward curricular outcomes for physical education programs. Preservice teachers (N = 486; men = 62%, women = 38%) from 18 U.S. colleges/universities shared their beliefs about curricular outcomes. Preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Physical Activities, Physical Education
Early Motor Stimulation and Personal Development. A Study of Four- to Six-Year-Old German Children.
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Diem, Liselott – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1982
A study of 165 West German preschool children participating in a motor program which included swimming as an important activity showed that early motor stimulation affected the children's motor, social, and individual development. (CJ)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Motor Development, Physical Fitness
Proceedings of a National Symposium on the Racquet Sports. An Exploration of Research Implications and Teaching Strategies (Urbana, Illinois, June 13-16, 1979).
Groppel, Jack L., Ed. – 1979
Conference proceedings from this national symposium on hard scientific research and developments in teaching tennis, squash, racquetball, and badminton are divided into several sections. The first deals with sports medicine and the biomechanics of the racquet sports. The second part discusses the pyschological and sociological aspects of…
Descriptors: Biomechanics, Lifetime Sports, Motor Development, Physical Fitness
Child in Sport and Physical Activity. International Series on Sport Sciences. Volume 3.
Albinson, J.G., Ed.; Andrew, G.M., Ed. – 1976
This collection of papers reviews the effects of sport and physical activity on children. It is organized around six sections representing the basic disciplines that contribute to a broad view of the child in sport and physical activity: physiology; medicine; growth and development; psychology; sociology; and motor learning. Although each paper…
Descriptors: Athletics, Child Development, Children, Exercise (Physiology)