Abstract:The decrease in touch has been explored in recent literature in relation to child protection discourses and no touch policies and it has been suggested that Physical Education (PE) has been weakened by the lack of touch. Significantly, the issue of touch has remained largely unexplored in Latin societies, which are characterised by an amplified tactile approach to people and comparatively little personal space. This paper examines how a group of pre-service PE teachers in Spain responded to, acted and negotiated touch with primary school students. It draws on data generated from body journals and the concepts of risk society, surveillance and moral panic. The findings indicate that touching school students is still common practice in Spain and was considered something positive. The influence of other individuals and certain spaces was also noted by participants, who felt more surveilled and distressed on particular occasions and some of them strategically introduced touch with students in a progressive manner. The results of the study invite us to reflect on the possibility of doing more harm than good by presenting topics about touch to pre-service teachers and how pre-service teacher educators may need to provide PE students with proper resources and understandings to successfully negotiate touch with school students.
This autobiographical article shows how the initial teacher´s training plays a crucial role in the reconstruction of his professional identity. Over this period, the teacher begins to analyze, observe and reflect on what he does and how he does it. This study revolves around three key issues: a) the importance of initial training in the quest for a more fully human education; b) the importance of initial training in the quest for coeducation; c) the importance of initial training for teacher educators. The conclusion is clear: a teacher´s professional identity is strongly determined by the initial stages of his formation, which enable him to build, develop and apply his pedagogical knowledge.
Uno de los elementos que más condicionan la práctica pedagógica, dentro de la Educación Física, tiene que ver con los espacios en que se desarrolla la tarea docente. En este artículo se expone el proceso reflexivo de un educador novel en el que se van revisando sus principios, propósitos y consecuencias de sus acciones en relación con la creación de espacios de enseñanza/aprendizaje seguros y educativos para todo el alumnado. El artículo adopta una metodología cualitativa, en forma de autoetnografía, para conocer la influencia que ejercen los espacios en los que se desarrolla la Educación Física en la concepción y afrontamiento de la materia. Los resultados reflejan cómo una de las mayores preocupaciones del docente tiene que ver con adaptar los espacios y los contextos en que se desarrollan las lecciones para reducir las contingenciasAbstract. One of the elements that most influence the pedagogical practice, within the Physical Education, has to do with the spaces in which the teaching task is developed. This article exposes the reflexive process of a novel educator in which he reviews his principles, purposes and consequences of their actions in relation to the creation of safe teaching and learning spaces for all students. The article adopts a qualitative methodology, in the form of autoethnography, to know the influence exerted by the spaces in which Physical Education develops in the conception and confrontation of the subject. The results reflect how one of the main concerns of the teacher has to do with adapting the spaces and contexts in which the lessons are developed to reduce contingencies.
El objetivo del presente artículo, centrado en los relatos autobiográficos acerca de la incompetencia motriz aprendida de un maestro novel especialista en Educación Física, es ilustrar el modo en que tales relatos pueden contribuir a la autoformación permanente de un profesor al facilitar la toma de conciencia sobre los procesos mediante los que la educación física recrea rasgos de la identidad tan importantes como los sentimientos de incompetencia motriz y de alienación del propio cuerpo. La conclusión a la que se llega es un tanto ambigua: por un lado, se indica que, gracias a dicho proceso reflexivo, el docente novel se cuestiona y transforma el enfoque de la asignatura que imparte. Por otro, sin embargo, se muestra que no es capaz de desembarazarse por completo de los modelos y de la cultura hegemónicos a los cuales, paradójicamente, trata de aproximarse y encarnar.
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