In this age of racial inequality, dehumanization, social unrest, and calls for justice, society needs an educational space in schools that emphasizes awareness self diverse others acceptance practices. Expanding the higher education PETE curriculum to include movements activities place students as subjects their own first-person subjective experiences will lead cultivation mindfulness, motivati...

In physical education, the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) pedagogical strategy has attracted significant attention from theoreticians and educators alike because it allows the development of game education through a tactic-to-skill approach based on the use of modified games. However, it has been proposed that, as an educational framework, it currently lacks adequate theoretical ground...

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BACKGROUND The relationship between physical education (PE) policies and children's PE and recess time is not well understood. PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to assess the association of district and school PE policies, the PE environment, and PE and recess time. METHODS Key informants in 65 schools from 9 states completed instruments assessing district and school PE policies, the sch...

This paper presents a brief overview of empirical studies in school physical education (PE) that have employed SDT and, where relevant, proposes ideas for future research in this area. First, we review research on teachers’ interpersonal style and its relation to students’ motivation. Second, we discuss intervention studies aimed at optimizing teachers’ interactions with students. Third, we pre...

JOPERD • Volume 77 No. 6 • August 2006 W hen the clock struck midnight on December 31, 2000, we moved into the 21st century. Noted historian Roberta Park (1989) has suggested that the turn of the century marked the beginning of the second century for the profession of physical education. She also noted that it was time for physical education to move on from its status as a “second-class” profes...