attitude impacts peoples’ lives is related to attitudes toward physical activity. Physical education experiences offered in school influence attitude, which in turn influence attitude toward physical activity and subsequently physical activity behavior ( Carlson, 1995 ; Ennis, 1996 ; Portman, 1995
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Cypriot Urban Elementary Students’ Attitude Toward Physical Education
Panos Constantinides and Stephen Silverman
A Systematic Review of Correlates of the Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity of Students in Elementary School Physical Education
Lijuan Wang and Yulan Zhou
necessary health benefits. School physical education (PE) has great potential to increase physical activity (PA) levels and help meet the PA guidelines among children ( Gu & Solmon, 2015 ). Structured PE classes are the most promising to the MVPA of school children ( Kobel et al., 2016 ), and school PE
“Know Your Kids, Understand Yourself, and Find a Way”: One Elementary School Physical Education Teacher’s Efforts at Employing Character Education
Jamie Jacob Brunsdon
Nearly a century has passed since Charles McCloy joined the University of Iowa and began his efforts to “outline a process of character building through physical education” ( 1930 , p. 1). Drawing from positivistic surveys and teaching experiments based on a Dewian interpretation of character
Regulators of Skill Development in School Physical Education
Peter Hastie
performers got to play on the elite-sport stage to remember that each one experienced physical education at some stage of their schooling. Indeed, as Kohl and Cook ( 2013 , p. 199) remind us, “physical education as part of education provides the only opportunity for all children to learn about physical
Influence of Acculturation on Parents’ Readings of and Expectations for Physical Education
Meredith George and Matthew D. Curtner-Smith
Research which sheds light on why children and youth react to and perceive physical education programming as they do should be of use to teachers, policy makers, and those who carry out physical education teacher education (PETE) ( Curtner-Smith, 2009 ). Given that they have such a strong influence
Listening to the Body in Physical Education and Sport
Aspasia Dania and Laura Lorenz
may be operationalized or interpreted ( Carlson, 2020 ; Pascoe Leahy, 2022 ). Within the fields of physical education (PE) and sport, researchers advocate for relational forms of inquiry, to address the discursive forces of what bodies “can do” and how such a matter “acts” ( Fullagar, 2017 ) with an
The Relationship and Effect Among Physical Literacy Attributes in University Physical Education During the Pandemic Quarantine Period
Siu Ming Choi, Raymond Kim Wai Sum, Elean Fung Lin Leung, and Cindy Sit
Physical literacy is a prominent topic across the framework of physical education and public health ( Cairney et al., 2019 ; Dudley et al., 2017 ; Sum et al., 2020 ). Scholars often apply Whitehead’s ( 2019 ) definition “as appropriate to each individual, physical literacy can be described as the
Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogies for and by Black and Latinx Preservice Physical Education Teachers
Korey L. Boyd, Mara Simon, and Cory E. Dixon
ignores various cultural knowledge that students of color possess, instead positioning students of color as “problematic” or unable to achieve at the same level as their White counterparts ( Raible & Irizarry, 2010 ). Physical education (PE) is no exception to upholding deficit discourses informed by
Physical Education for Health Among School-Aged Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review of Reviews
Virgílio Viana Ramires, Priscila Cristina dos Santos, Valter Cordeiro Barbosa Filho, Alexsandra da Silva Bandeira, Maria Cecilia Marinho Tenório, Edina Maria de Camargo, Fabrício Cesar de Paula Ravagnani, Paula Sandreschi, Victor José Machado de Oliveira, Pedro Curi Hallal, and Kelly Samara Silva
aspects of their life and health. 2 As part of the school curriculum and environment, physical education (PE) classes offer an opportunity for children and adolescents to experience movement skills and social competencies that play a main role in their development in the school stage and further. 3 , 4
Influence of Internal and External Controlling Teaching Behaviors on Students’ Motivational Outcomes in Physical Education: Is There a Gender Difference?
Ángel Abós, Rafael Burgueño, Luis García-González, and Javier Sevil-Serrano
One of the main goals of physical education (PE) is to develop physically literate students who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to participate in healthy physical activity throughout life ( SHAPE America—Society of Health and Physical Educators, 2014 ). Students’ positive experiences in
