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- Backman, Erik, 1972-, et al.
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How does physical education teacher education matter? : A methodological approach to understanding transitions from PETE to school physical education
- 2023
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Ingår i: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. - : Routledge. - 1740-8989 .- 1742-5786. ; 28:4, s. 411-424
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: In this paper, we will address the question of how physical education teacher education (PETE) matters and suggest one way to explore the potential impact of PETE. A distinguishing feature of the studies of PETE's impact on physical education is that they either include perspectives from preservice teachers involved in PETE courses or perspectives from physical education teachers in schools looking back at their education. Longitudinal attempts to follow preservice teachers’ journey from education to workplace, in order to grasp how they perceive the relation between teacher education and teaching practice in schools, and the transition between these contexts, are few and far between. This gap of knowledge is a missing piece of the puzzle to further develop PETE, and to inform life-long professional development for teachers.Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we develop and present a methodological approach for investigating the transition of content areas from courses in PETE into teaching practice in school physical education. Second, we will illustrate the potential utility of this methodological approach in longitudinal studies by showing how one particular content area, Assessment for Learning (AfL), was investigated through the use of methods and theories described in the first part of this paper.Methodology: The suggested longitudinal approach involves Stimulated Recall (SR) interviews with pre- and postservice teachers, observations and communication with groups of students and teachers through social media. The construction, recontextualisation and realisation of pedagogic discourses regarding content areas are suggested to be analysed through a combination of Bernstein's concept of the pedagogic device and Ball's concept of fabrication.Results and Conclusions: The longitudinal design and the suggested methodology can provide answers to how content areas are transformed in and between PETE and school physical education. A combination of the theoretical perspectives of Bernstein and Ball enables us to say something not only about how pedagogic discourses regarding content areas are constructed, recontextualised and realised in PETE and school physical education, but also about what content areas become in terms of fabrications in the transition between these contexts. To conclude, we argue that the methodological research design can be used to explore different content areas in PETE and that this methodology can contribute to knowledge about how PETE matters for school physical education.
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- Backman, Erik, et al.
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How does physical education teacher education matter? : A methodological approach to understand transitions of content areas from PETE to PE
- 2021
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Ingår i: Book of Abstracts. ; , s. 193-193
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we will address the question of how physical education teacher education (PETE) matters and suggest one way to explore the potential impact of PETE. A distinguishing feature of the studies of PETE’s impact on physical education is that they either include perspectives from preservice teachers involved in PETE courses or perspectives from physical education teachers in schools looking back at their education. Longitudinal attempts to follow preservice teachers’ journey from education to workplace, in order to grasp how they perceive the relation between teacher education and teaching practice in schools, and transitionsbetween these contexts, are few and far between. This gap of knowledge is a missing piece of the puzzle to further develop PETE, and to inform courses or life-long professional development for teachers. The purpose of this paper is to present a methodological approach for investigating transitions of content areas from courses in PETE into teaching practice in school physical education. This will be done trough combining the theoretical perspectives of Bernstein and Ball with a longitudinal study design. The theory of Bernstein enables us to say something about howpedagogic discourses are constructed, recontextualised and realised in PETE and in school physical education. The theory of Ball enables us to say something about about whatcontent areas become, in terms of fabrications, in the transition between these contexts. The longitudinal design will provide us with answers to how and what pedagogic discourses regarding content areas are transformed into in and between PETE and school physical education. The suggested methodology involves Stimulated Recall (SR) interviews, observations and communication with groups through social media. SR-interviews provides an immediateness in the reflection on teaching practice and content areas. Using social media groups is an effective strategy for maintaining contact with examined preservice teachers when they leave university.
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- Backman, Erik, 1972-, et al.
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Peer assessment in physical education teacher education - a complex process making social and physical capital visible
- 2023
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Ingår i: Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2574-2981 .- 2574-299X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Peer assessment has been proven to improve learning for both the observer and the observed. One dimension of peer assessment that has been given little attention in the context of physical education teacher education (PETE) is the tension that exists when peers give feedback on each other's work. In this paper, we report on Swedish preservice teachers' (PST) views on peer assessment used in PETE school placements. Our findings reveal four mechanisms of peer assessment assigned value in PETE: (i) building social relations, (ii) making 'what to learn' visible, (iii) giving correct feedback, and (iv) handling sensitive and gendered comments. Inspired by Bourdieu, we discuss learning potentials and complex challenges with peer assessment, where the combination of social capital and physical capital decides what is possible to say and to whom when peer assessment is used in the PETE school placement and in school physical education (PE).
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- Backman, Erik, 1972-, et al.
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Transitions from Physical Education Teacher Education to teaching practices in Physical Education
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research display mixed results regarding the impact that teacher education have on teaching practices in schools. While some studies indicate weak influence of teacher education, others display that some content and perspectives in teacher education seem to find their expressions in school practice. Despite the lack of research about the impact of physical education teacher education (PETE), a few existing studies display the same twofold result as for teacher education in general. In this study, we have chosen a certain content, assessment of learning (AFL) in order to investigate the influence that PETE can have for newly qualified teachers (NQT) in physical education (PE). The aim of the project is twofold. Firstly, inspired by Bernstein’s theory of the pedagogic device, the aim is to investigate how AFL is constructed in university courses, re-contextualised in practicum courses, and realised in teaching practice in school PE. Secondly, and inspired by Ball’s theory of performativity, the aim is to analyse fabrications of AFL in the transitions from PETE to PE teaching practice. The design of the project is to follow a total of 10 PETE students recruited from two different PETE universities in Sweden to study how their understanding and teaching practice of AFL is transformed from PETE to PE. Empirical material will be gathered from recordings of seminars, observations for teaching, stimulated-recall-interviews, and participation in social media.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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A PE teacher’s tale : journeying from teacher education to teaching practice in physical education
- 2023
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - : Routledge. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As part of a longitudinal research project on the transition from physical education teacher education (PETE) to school physical education (PE) in Sweden and exploring whether and how PETE matters, this article uses narrative inquiry to ‘represent’ a PE teacher’s professional journey from PETE to the induction phase of PE teaching. The study focuses on his use of, and reflections on, ‘assessment for learning’ (AfL) at different stages of his teaching experience. The purpose of the study is to contribute knowledge about how positive experiences of AfL during PETE can enable the use of AfL in school PE for a newly qualified teacher. This is done by analysing one male PETE student’s reflections on AfL in the context of a campus-based course on PE assessment, his use of and reflections on AfL during his practicum, and in school PE as a newly qualified teacher. The data generation consisted of recordings of a PETE seminar, a stimulated recall interview with the participant during his final school placement, and two interviews with him in his role as a newly qualified PE teacher at two different schools. Through the PE teacher’s tale, we show how the campus-based course on PE assessment in PETE and the student teacher’s positive experience of using AfL during his practicum seem to have inspired him in his later positions. The results are discussed in relation to the perspective of occupational socialisation theory. This narrative inquiry suggests that PETE can make a difference for student teachers who are prepared to face the challenges of the induction phase of PE teaching and are able to navigate between the barriers that get in their way. We conclude the paper with some considerations regarding the study’s potential strength (trustworthiness), sharing (transferability) and service (usefulness).
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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A PE teacher's tale : Journeying from PETE to school PE
- 2024
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Ingår i: AIESEP 2024 book of abstracts. - : University of Jyväskylä.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As part of a longitudinal research project on the transition from physical education teacher education (PETE) to school physical education (PE) in Sweden, and exploring whether and how PETE matters, this paper ‘represents’ a PE teacher’s professional journey from PETE to the induction phase of PE teaching. The study focuses on the PE teacher’s use of, and reflections on, assessment for learning (AfL) (Wiliam, 2011) at different stages of the journey. The purpose of the study is to contribute knowledge about how positive experiences of AfL during PETE can enable the use of AfL in school PE for a newly qualified teacher. Using narrative inquiry (Casey, et al., 2018), supported by occupational socialisation theory (Lawson, 1983), this study focuses on one male PE teacher’s professional journey from PETE to the induction phase of PE teaching. The PE teacher’s tale is represented in first person, as if it were told by ‘the traveller’ on the journey. The underlying data consists of recordings of a campus-based PETE seminar, a stimulated recall interview with the participant during his school placement and two interviews with him in his role as a newly qualified PE teacher at two different schools.Through the PE teacher’s tale, we show how the course on assessment for and of learning in PETE and the student teacher’s positive experience of using AfL during his practicum seem to have inspired him in his later positions. On his professional journey, the traveller encounters barriers such as his colleagues’ contrasting beliefs, dominating PE teaching traditions, and pupils’ resistance. Still, AfL is not washed out from his teaching practice. Rather, the key strategies of AfL, such as sharing learning intentions, providing feedback, and activating pupils as learning resources for one another, are used to create conditions for progression. In the discussion, we suggest that PETE can make a difference for student teachers who have gained positive experiences of AfL in authentic teaching situations and are able to navigate between the barriers to the use of AfL in the induction phase of PE teaching. The usefulness of this study is its potential to inspire teacher educators to implement AfL in different learning tasks during PETE and student teachers to practice AfL during their school placements. If this would occur more regularly, a content such as AfL would have a better chance of “surviving” the transition from PETE to school PE.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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Assessment for and of learning in nonlinear movement education practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. - : Routledge. - 1740-8989 .- 1742-5786.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background. Principles such as instructional alignment and step-by-step progression are often seen as crucial features of good assessment practices in school physical education (PE). These features are problematic from nonlinear educational perspectives, which are based on the idea that movement learning cannot be expected to take place in the same manner for all students. Without some resolution of the contradiction between nonlinear pedagogies and principles of good assessment, the likelihood of physical educators fully embracing any kind of nonlinear approach to movement education remains doubtful.Purpose and research question. Our purpose in this paper is to illustrate how assessment for and of learning (AfL and AoL) can look when implemented in nonlinear movement education practices.Methods. Illustrations of AfL and AoL are drawn from an investigation in which one educator implements a nonlinear movement education module. The module focuses on juggling for students at high school (grade nine students aged approximately 15 years). The module provided students with 10 x 50-minute lessons to explore juggling. Data were generated through observations (film clips and field notes) and ethnographic-type interviews that were conducted with the students during the lessons.Findings. In the context of the nonlinear movement education module, AfL became: Interacting with students in joint exploration; Introducing learning strategies; Encouraging students to clarify and verbalise the object of learning; Helping students identify critical aspects of the movement activity, and; Inviting students to consider alternative learning trajectories. The educator then evaluates the students' learning experiences in the context of a group performance at the end of the module. This performance can be seen as an instance of holistic assessment within a nonlinear movement education practice.Conclusions. The suggested holistic perspective on PE assessment could help educators to: circumvent dichotomies such as mind-body and theory-practice; approach students as active meaning-makers; re-frame students' actions as emergent and context-dependent; and replace direct instruction with explorative teaching and learning methods. The major contribution of this study is that it shows how assessment for and of learning can be implemented in nonlinear movement education practices within a linear, goal-related and criterion-referenced, education system.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-
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Bedömning för lärande - inifrån och ut : Ett manuskript till min Docenturföreläsning vid Örebro universitet, den 7/5-2024
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Skolundervisning ska vila på vetenskaplig grund och beprövad erfarenhet. Därmed har lärarutbildningen en viktig roll att fylla, genom att skapa förutsättningar för lärarstudenter att utveckla ett forskande arbetssätt inför yrkeslivet. Målsättningen med denna text är att visa hur det kan gå till i praktiken. Jag har länge forskat och undervisat inom samma kunskapsområde, bedömning för lärande i skolämnet idrott och hälsa och inom ämneslärarprogrammet. Dessutom har samverkan mellan bedömningskurserna på campus och övningsskolornas bedömningspraktik genererat en beprövad erfarenhet beträffande bedömning för lärande, som jag gärna delar med mig av i form av en berättelse. Syftet med min berättelse är att återge hur forskning, undervisning och beprövad erfarenhet kan utvecklas i en sammanlänkad process och föra ett resonemang kring vad denna process har att erbjuda för studenters lärande inom ämneslärarprogrammet. Idén att dela med mig av mina erfarenheter i form av en berättelse är inspirerad av en självbiografisk narrativ metodologi. Efter en redogörelse för vad bedömning för lärande blir och gör under olika omständigheter avslutas berättelsen med några förslag på arbetssätt som kan överbrygga glappet mellan teori och praktik inom lärarutbildningen. Dessutom skulle berättelsen kunna användas som ämnesdidaktiskt läromedel, som ett komplement till allmändidaktisk litteratur om bedömning för lärande.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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Bedömning för och av lärande i en icke-linjär undervisningspraktik i ämnet idrott och hälsa
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- IntroduktionLinjära principer såsom ett instruktivt länkande mellan mål, undervisning och bedömning och ett främjande av en stegvis progression i olika rörelseaktiviteter betraktas ofta som avgörande aspekter av en legitim bedömningspraktik i skolämnet idrott och hälsa (idh). Dessa aspekter är problematiska från ett icke-linjärt perspektiv, som bygger på idén att lärande inte kan förväntas ske på samma sätt för alla elever, vilket även kan medföra konsekvenser beträffande bedömning. Utan en lösning på motsättningen mellan linjära principer för en legitim bedömningspraktik och ett icke-linjärt perspektiv på undervisning och lärande är det tveksamt om idrottslärare kommer att anamma ett icke-linjärt förhållningssätt i någon större utsträckning. Därför är motiverat att undersöka hur bedömning för och av lärande (formativ och summativ bedömning) skulle kunna hanteras i en icke-linjär undervisningspraktik. Syfte och teoretisk ramSyftet med denna studie är att illustrera hur bedömning för och av lärande kan se ut när dessa bedömningsformer appliceras i en icke-linjär undervisningspraktik i ämnet idh. Det teoretiska ramverket består av tidigare forskning om icke-linjära perspektiv på undervisning och lärande (såsom Nyberg, Barker och Larsson 2021) och om bedömning i idrottsämnet (till exempel AIESEP, 2020; Tolgfors, 2019).Metod Våra illustrationer av bedömning för och av lärande är hämtade från en empirisk studie av hur en idrottslärare implementerar icke-linjär pedagogik i ämnet idh på högstadiet. Eleverna (både pojkar och flickor) går i årskurs nio och är därmed i femtonårsåldern. Arbetsområdet fokuserar på jonglering under 10 lektioner (á 50 min). Data genererades genom lektionsobservationer (inklusive videofilmning och fältanteckningar) och samtalsliknande intervjuer med eleverna under lektionerna. Analysen genomfördes genom att (1) de forskare som deltagit vid lektionsobservationerna gick igenom filmer och fältanteckningar för att välja ut sekvenser i vilka de uppfattade att det förekom situationer som kunde relateras till bedömning. (2) Två av forskarna författade provisoriska illustrationer av de valda sekvenserna, inklusive de bedömningskomponenter de identifierat. (3) I nästa steg fick förste-författaren möjlighet att tolka och översätta de provisoriska beskrivningarna till andra kategoriseringar som var kompatibla med de fem nyckelstrategierna i bedömning för lärande och Skolverkets nya riktlinjer för en sammantagen bedömning. (4) Avslutningsvis verifierades analysen av de tre medförfattarna.Resultat I den icke-linjära undervisningspraktiken motsvaras de fem nyckelstrategierna i bedömning för lärande av att läraren: interagerar med eleverna vid ett gemensamt undersökande av rörelsekulturen; introducerar lärandestrategier, uppmuntrar eleverna att verbalisera vad de lär sig, hjälper eleverna identifiera kritiska aspekter av lärandeaktiviteten och uppmärksammar eleverna på att det kan finnas alternativa vägar mot sina uppsatta mål. Bedömning av lärande sker i slutet av perioden i form av en gruppuppvisning, då eleverna både får visa upp och sätta ord på vad de lärt sig. Denna redovisningsform erbjuder läraren en möjlighet att göra en holistisk bedömning av elevernas kunnande.Diskussion och slutsatserDet föreslagna holistiska perspektivet på bedömning i idh kan hjälpa idrottslärare att undvika dikotomier som kropp-medvetande och praktik-teori, betrakta elever som aktiva meningsskapare och därmed ersätta direkta instruktioner med undersökande arbetssätt. Studiens huvudsakliga bidrag är att den visar hur bedömning för och av lärande kan implementeras i en icke-linjär undervisningspraktik, vilket innebär att de konkurrerande perspektiven kan samexistera inom ett mål och kriteriestyrt utbildningssystem.Studien är publicerad i tidskriften Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy, 2023.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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Between ideal teaching and 'what works' : The transmission and transformation of a content area from university to school placements within physical education teacher education
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Physical Education Review. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-336X .- 1741-2749. ; 27:2, s. 312-327
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to explore the recontextualisation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) as a particular content area in the transition between a university course and a school placement course within Swedish Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE). By combining Basil Bernstein’s (1996) pedagogic device and Stephen Ball’s (2000, 2003) performativity perspective, we alternately ask how AfL is constructed as a pedagogic discourse and what AfL becomes in different contexts within PETE. Nine students attending a Swedish PETE programme participated in the study. The empirical material was collected through one seminar and two group interviews at the university as well as through nine individual interviews based on lesson observations at different school placements. Our findings highlight five recontextualising rules, which indicate that: (1) the task of integrating assessment into teaching enables the use of AfL; (2) an exclusive focus on summative assessment and grading constrains the use of AfL; (3) a lack of critical engagement with physical education teaching traditions constrains the use of AfL; (4) knowing the pupils is crucial for the use of AfL; and (5) the framing of the school placements determines how AfL can be used. As a consequence of these rules, AfL was transformed into three different fabrications: (1) AfL as ideal teaching; (2) AfL as correction of shortcomings; and (3) AfL as ‘what works’. One conclusion from this study is that increased collaboration between teacher educators and cooperating teachers in schools can help strengthen PETE’s influence on school physical education.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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Enacting assessment for learning in the induction phase of physical education teaching
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Physical Education Review. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-336X .- 1741-2749. ; 28:2, s. 534-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In many countries, assessment for learning (AfL) is recommended in both policy and research as a concept that should be integrated into the teaching of physical education (PE) in schools. AfL is also part of physical education teacher education (PETE) programs in several countries and, consequently, something future PE teachers are expected to practice in their teaching. In a previous study (Tolgfors et al., 2021), we showed how AfL was transmitted and transformed between a university course and a school placement course within Swedish PETE. In the current study, we have more closely followed three of the preservice teachers who took part in our initial study into their first year of PE teaching. The purpose of this follow-up study is thus to explore how AfL is enacted in the induction phase of PE teaching. The more specific research question is: how is AfL enacted in beginning teachers’ PE practices under the contextual conditions provided at the schools where they are employed? The data were generated through Stimulated Recall interviews and follow-up interviews via the online meeting software Zoom. The analysis was based on Braun et al.’s (2011) contextual dimensions of policy enactment and Bernstein’s (1996) pedagogic device. Our findings illustrate how AfL is generally enacted through (1) progression and (2) “rich tasks.” However, the contextual dimensions of each school provide different conditions that either support or hinder the use of AfL in PE. AfL is accordingly enacted in different ways in the induction phase of PE teaching.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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Exploring Movement Composition in the transition from physical education teacher education to school PE
- 2022
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Ingår i: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. - : Routledge. - 1740-8989 .- 1742-5786.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Scholars have suggested that students’ views of what is important for them to know as Physical Education (PE) teachers are a result of what is assessed in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE). Thus, there is a risk that students will reproduce content areas such as sports and assess sport-techniques without much critical consideration. In this study, however, the risk of reproducing what is prioritised in PETE is seen as an opportunity regarding the potential reproduction of other content areas than sports. Based on the regulative principles of PE and PETE that privilege sport skills and hinder creative movement learning, we focus on a content area in PETE that provides opportunities for students to engage in creative collaboration and examine how this content area is realised in school PE. Hence, we have chosen to explore ‘Movement Composition’, a content area which has a long tradition at one of the PETE universities in Sweden. Based on an overarching interest in whether and how PETE matters, this exploratory study focuses on the potential transferability of Movement Composition as a particular content area in the transition from PETE to PE.Purpose and research question: The purpose of this study is to explore Movement Composition as a content area undergoing the transition from PETE to school PE. The research question is: How is the pedagogic discourse of Movement Composition constructed, recontextualised and realised in the transition from PETE to school PE?Methods: Data was generated through an interview with one of the initiators of Movement Composition. Stimulated Recall interviews and Zoom interviews were also conducted with a group of five PETE students and three experienced PE teachers. In addition, documents such as the study guide, course literature, and written assignments associated with Movement Composition in the PETE programme were included in the empirical material. In the analysis, the combination of Bernstein’s pedagogic device and the Swedish didactics of PE research tradition was used to identify the pedagogic discourse of Movement Composition in the transition from PETE to school PE.Findings: The findings show how the pedagogic discourse of Movement Composition as a content area is constructed, recontextualised and realised in the transition from PETE to school PE. The construction of Movement Composition as a pedagogic discourse in PETE is about how the content area (the what) is selected and organised for pedagogical purposes. The recontextualisation of Movement Composition is about how the pedagogic discourse is interpreted and translated in relation to the PE syllabus. The realisation of Movement Composition involves how the content area in PETE is implemented in PE practice.Conclusions: This exploratory study has shown that what is articulated as a relevant content area and the way it is taught, learned, and assessed in PETE in many regards survives the transition to school PE. The transition from PETE to school PE does not only involve reproduction of sports and sport-techniques from one context to another. PETE also contributes to the use of creative, collaborative, and student-centred learning tasks in school PE.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-
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Promoting integration through Physical Education
- 2019
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Ingår i: Promoting integration through Physical Education.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background and purpose: Due to migratory movements, many advanced liberal democracies of today are characterised by cultural heterogeneity. A common problem in these societies is segregation, which is also reflected in schools. In Sweden, this challenge is currently tackled through ‘bussing projects’ in order to promote integration and improve performances results. The research interest is directed at one of the schools where ‘the bus for inclusion’ stops every morning. According to Bunar (2015), physical education (PE) is regarded as a school subject of particular importance for integration. However, Barker and Lundvall (2016) note that PE is ‘unprepared for changing societies’. Based on the (high or low) expectations of PE as an integration subject, the study focuses on the promotion of integration through PE.The purpose of the study is to explore how the promotion of integration is carried out through the PE teacher’s pedagogical actions and the pupils’ ways of acting on them and also what the consequences of this ‘action upon action’ (Foucault, 1982/1994, p. 340) in the PE practice are likely to be.Methods: The study focused on a PE teacher (a forty-year-old white male) and a heterogeneous class of pupils. The purposive sampling strategy was to ask the PE teacher which of his classes he would recommend for the study, based on a broad spectrum of cultural identities. The teacher recommended a class in school year seven, with pupils aged 13. The field work involved observing a total of eighteen lessons throughout the autumn term in 2018. The observations were complemented by two semi-structured interviews with the PE teacher, at the beginning and at the end of the research project. The field notes and transcriptions were analysed from a governmentality perspective (Foucault,1978/1994).Results: The PE teacher’s pedagogical actions are promoting intercultural encounters, collaboration and mutual respect. Depending on the pupils’ compliance or resistance to the teacher’s guidance, the consequences are likely to differ. In the case of compliance, subjectivities with intercultural competences and interpersonal skills are constituted. Potentially, this subjectification process benefits integration in a neoliberal society like Sweden. In the case of resistance, a certain degree of segregation will remain as long as the pupils continue to solely identify themselves with those from similar cultural backgrounds and exclude others.Conclusion: The study connects the municipality’s ‘government at a distance’ with ‘the microphysics of power’ in the PE practice. As suggested by Walters (2012), the analysis then builds outwards again, which makes it possible to speculate on consequences at the macro level. Thus, this article shows how a PE teacher’s guidance can make a difference, not only in the gym, but in society as a whole.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-
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Promoting integration through physical education (?)
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - : Routledge. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; 20:9, s. 1029-1042
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A common problem in contemporary western societies is segregation,which is also reflected in schools. The point of departure for this study is apolitical initiative in Sweden, where pupils are being transported by busfrom a suburb to different schools in the city with the aim of promotingintegration and improved performance results. The study focuses on theteaching practice of Physical Education (PE) at one of the schools where‘the bus for inclusion’ stops every morning. The research questionconcerns how ‘the political action’ of the bussing project is ‘acted upon’in the subject of PE. The purpose is to explore what becomes of thisparticular PE practice, in terms of rationalities encompassing a PEteacher’s pedagogical actions and the pupils’ ways of acting on them. Thedata, gathered through extensive fieldwork, including lesson observationsand interviews, is analysed from a governmentality perspective [Foucault,1978/1994. Governmentality. In Power (pp. 201–222). New York: The NewPress]. The findings highlight three underlying rationalities in regards tointegration, aiming at promoting intercultural encounters, collaborationand mutual respect. These rationalities, manifested through the PEteacher’s pedagogical actions, offer guidance for the pupil seen as ‘asubject seeking to construct himself or herself’ [Wieviorka 2014. A critiqueof integration. Identities, 21(6), 633–641, 636–637]. In case of compliance,the notion of ‘us and them’ is countered and a shared experience ofbelonging is achieved through teamwork and self-regulation. In case ofresistance, segregation is maintained in the school community as well asin society as a whole. This study does not contribute any incontestableevidence of social inclusion through PE [cf. Bailey, 2005. Evaluating therelationship between physical education, sport and social inclusion.Educational Review, 57(1), 71–90; Dagkas, 2018. Is social inclusion throughPE, sport and PA still a rhetoric? Evaluating the relationship betweenphysical education, sport and social inclusion. Educational Review, 70(1),67–74]. However, the findings indicate that ‘action upon action’ in aculturally heterogeneous PE practice makes a difference insofar asintegration is understood as a process of subjectivation [Wieviorka 2014.A critique of integration. Identities, 21(6), 633–641]. Depending on thedirection of the PE teacher’s guidance, the process might tend towardseither cultural assimilation or pluralistic integration [Grimminger, 2008.Promoting intercultural competence in the continuing education ofphysical education teachers. Sport-Integration-Europe, 310–320].
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-, et al.
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The glocalization of physical education assessment discourse
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Ingår i: Sport, Education and Society. - : Routledge. - 1357-3322 .- 1470-1243. ; 28:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Educational discourse is becoming increasingly globalized. This trend is particularly pronounced in the area of assessment, where notions of accountability, comparability, and competition have become prevalent in many countries. Scholars have critiqued this trend. They contend that global assessment discourse provides educators with decontextualized terms and concepts for teaching, which have little connection to the lives of learners. The specific purpose of the paper is to critically consider the encounter between global PE assessment discourse and local educational traditions. The International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) position statement on physical education assessment is taken as a case of global assessment discourse and is considered in relation to Swedish physical education traditions. Robertson’s [(1995) notion of glocalization is employed as a theoretical perspective. We begin our consideration by outlining general tenets of the position statement and of Swedish physical education. We then examine areas of synergy and tension. This examination is structured according to six issues: (1) rationales for assessment; (2) underlying views of learning; (3) teachers’ role in teaching and assessment; (4) positioning of students;(5) understandings of subject content, and; (6) the ways in which contextual conditions are framed. Using a glocalization perspective, we raise three issues that have a strong bearing on the encounter between global discourse and local educational traditions and which provide insights into how assessment discourse within PE can be understood. These issues concern: (1) the risk of local educational traditions being appropriated by global assessment discourse; (2) the relation between assessment homogeneity and local diversity; and (3) meaningful PE practices. The paper is concluded with general reflections concerning implications for research and practice.
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- Tolgfors, Björn, Universitetslektor, 1968-
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Transformative assessment in physical education
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Ingår i: European Physical Education Review. - : Sage Publications. - 1356-336X .- 1741-2749. ; 25:4, s. 1211-1225
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- This article focuses on assessment processes in the school subject of physical education (PE). Inspired by Torrance, the overarching research question is: ‘What might assessment involve if it focuses on the development and identification of collective understanding, collaboratively produced through educational experiences?’ The purpose of the study is to illustrate what characterises transformative assessment and show how it can be addressed in PE practice. A combination of group interviews with teachers, lesson observations and individual interviews with students and teachers was used to gather the empirical material. The analysis was based on three aspects of transformative assessment: responsibilisation; subjectification; and collaboration. Three empirical illustrations show what transformative assessment might involve in relation to learning tasks such as: the training log; the group choreography; and the case of exercise physiology. The views presented in this article contribute to the knowledge about the field in the following ways. First, the illustrations show that the ‘whats’, ‘hows’, ‘whoms’ and ‘whys’ in the assessment practice are often negotiable, which prevents a simplified understanding of the four aspects of assessment literacy: comprehension; application; interpretation; and critical engagement. Second, the notion of transformative assessment could hinder a reductive use of assessment for learning and promote collaborative learning and social justice in today’s heterogeneous PE practices.
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