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Socio-critical research on teaching physical education and physical education teacher education
2017
The purpose of this study is to systematically review the socio-critical research on teaching physical education (PE) and PE teacher education (PETE) between 1999 and 2014. The procedure followed a four-phase approach: (a) searching publications through four international databases; (b) meeting inclusion criteria; (c) refining selection to identify specifically research-based papers; and (d) expert searching based on the research team’s knowledge. The selection process yielded 23 articles mainly from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Spain. Most of the research was authored collaboratively by male and female authors affiliated to universities. A lack of authorship shared with participant …
Implications for European Physical Education Teacher Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-institutional SWOT analysis
2020
The present study, using a sample of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) representatives from five Higher Education European institutions (England, Finland, Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) sought to investigate the proposed measures of change required for programme delivery during the academic year of 2020–21. Each team completed a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) examination through inductive cross-analysis, using a deductive structure, following the dimensions of: PETE Programme; PETE Staff; PETE Students. The findings presented at a case level show how each PETE programme is seeking to manage an important tension between the experiential nature of Physical E…
Open Inquiry based learning experiences to understand the Nature of Science
2014
In this paper we address the question of the efficacy of an inquiry-based learning approach, with different levels of teacher’s guidance, to introduce the students to fundamental aspects of the Nature of Science (NoS). Explicit pedagogical approaches, in which specific instruction on the topic of NoS is provided in addition to the engagement in scientific inquiry, are generally considered more effective with respect to implicit methods, where NoS conceptions are expected to develop as a natural consequence of inquiry-based learning experiences alone. In our study, we further explore the connections between scientific inquiry and implicit development of NoS conceptions, by investigating the …
Collective Agency-Promoting Leadership in Finnish Teacher Education
2018
Globally, there is a political and social consensus that teacher education is a key priority for the twenty-first century. However, studies have so far paid little attention to a crucial issue, namely, leadership in teacher education. This chapter contributes to discussion on transforming teacher education practices by focusing on leadership practices in a particular Finnish teacher education department. Adopting a subject-centred sociocultural approach, we elaborate the main challenges, insights, and lessons learned, as perceived by the four leaders of the department, in efforts to move towards more innovative and collaborative practices. We argue that teacher education leaders currently r…
How Did I Become a Good Teacher? Implications for Teacher Education
2017
Abstract The professional standards for teachers provide the competences needed for this occupation, in function of the level of education and of the career stages. This study aims to discover the most important training factors which contribute to the acquisition of teacher competences and to establish the implications for teacher education. We have used a mixed-method design as the procedure for collecting, analyzing, and combining both quantitative and qualitative data. To detect the main agents in the teacher competences’ achievement, we applied a questionnaire and we asked the personal opinion of the teachers regarding their evolution in the career. The findings indicated that the prin…
Becoming agentic teachers : Experiences of the home group approach as a resource for supporting teacher students' agency
2018
Abstract This study focuses on the experiences of first-year teacher students in a Finnish teacher education department regarding ways in which studying in stable “home groups” supported or restricted their agency. The findings of the interviews with 22 teacher students suggest that perception of home groups as emotionally safe and offering opportunities to break traditional authority relationship supported teacher students' agency, which was manifested in identity negotiations and active participation. Perception of inequality and tensions within home groups restricted students' agency. The findings underline the need for keen awareness of factors affecting teacher students' agency when ap…
University Students as Composers of a Digital Video
2013
This paper introduces a university course in which digital video composing was used as a study method. The aim of the course was to empower future teachers to use digital and multimodal literacy practices in their own teaching. Students in education, 13 in total, participated in the course on digital literacies. The course achievement was measured with the task in which students composed a video in small-groups. The students’ videos were supposed to convince a pedagogical target group about the usefulness of a teaching method or need for a reform. In the last meeting, student’s videos were watched and the contents of the videos were discussed. The experiences on composing a digital video we…
Il tirocinio dei futuri insegnanti al tempo del Covid-19
2022
La sospensione delle attività universitarie in presenza ha portato gli atenei a dover ripensare le modalità di svolgimento dei tirocini, nel rispetto della cornice normativa della regione di appartenenza. Nonostante il tirocinio sia un’attività complessa da tradurre in modalità a distanza, proprio per la sua natura pratica e contestualizzata, le università hanno cercato di dare una risposta tempestiva che risolvesse i problemi concreti sorti per la conclusione del tirocinio entro la scadenza prevista dalla norma, a fronte del cambiamento di scenario legato all’emergenza sanitaria. Tra Marzo e Aprile 2021 è stato somministrato a 2511 futuri insegnanti un questionario on line che affrontava i…
eTwinning Collaborative Learning Environment in Initial Teacher Education
2018
This paper aims to describe the eTwinning Teacher Training Institutes Pilot (TTI)1experiment during academic year 2014/15 with 550 undergraduate students from first and second year of Educational Technologies degree courses. The research was given start with the purpose of preparing tomorrow's teachers for a future where the use of ICT and is in everyday teaching, to promote their digital skills and communication skills, and their use of English as a foreign language within a cross-cultural context. The teaching presence was proved through proper supervision and the emergence of mutual support from 36 tutors and 550 students. The results of the research contributed to our understanding of h…
La videorreseña y la creación de comunidades lectoras en la formación inicial de docentes.
2021
El uso del vídeo con finalidades didácticas para la mejora del aprendizaje lingüístico y literario presenta múltiples posibilidades en el mundo educativo, entre otras, la exploración de los cambios discursivos que se producen en los géneros que presentan nuevas variantes en este formato, como es el caso de las videorreseñas. El cambio de formato conlleva la necesidad de crear una situación de comunicación acorde con la finalidad que se pretende, en la que los recursos que permite el vídeo estén al servicio del tipo de enunciador y de destinatario creados por los reseñadores. La reseña en vídeo se convierte así no solo en una variante técnica sino también discursiva, que busca nuevas formas …