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.
The teaching profession requires an understanding of teachers' and students' emotions, and teachers' emotions can influence their teaching practice, professional development and pedagogical approaches. Furthermore, emotions are embodied and they may have a detrimental effect on wellbeing if they are not addressed properly. This paper explores the emotional dimensions of preservice primary teachers' practicum experiences in physical education (PE). Body journals were used to collect data which were analysed using a Sociology of Emotions (SoE) approach. The findings revealed that preservice teachers' emotions manifest physically during their practicum, especially at particular junctures, such as at the beginning of their teaching. Preservice teachers felt the need to make a 'good impression' within the school through the regulation of their emotions as they faced continual challenges to succeed in unfamiliar teaching circumstances. The conclusions of this study demonstrate the benefits of providing opportunities for preservice PE teachers to reflect on their emotions during the practicum and the consequences that these may have on their bodies and teaching practices.
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.
RESUMEN En este artículo defendemos la importancia del cuerpo en la comprensión de la escuela y la educación, frente a la concepción mayoritaria en formación inicial que prioriza una visión técnica y académica y deja el cuerpo del docente en un segundo plano. El objetivo principal es mostrar cómo los diarios corporales docentes permiten al alumnado en formación inicial descubrir y explorar algunas de sus dimensiones corporales y su implicación en la enseñanza. El artículo adopta una metodología cualitativa para conocer la percepción de siete futuros docentes de Educación Física acerca de la utilidad de los diarios corporales como instrumento de reflexión y de evaluación formativa. Los resultados reflejan cómo los diarios corporales docentes sirven de nexo entre las dimensiones pedagógica y corporal de los educadores desde los primeros contactos con la profesión. Asimismo, manifiestan la manera en que sirven de herramienta para la evaluación formativa del alumnado, en tanto que tienen una gran relación con el resto de asignaturas de la carrera; principalmente, con el Prácticum. Palabras claves: educación física, grupos de discusión, investigación cualitativa, formación docente, huellas corporales.
El presente artículo muestra el modo en que una lesión deportiva puede derivar en un acontecimiento que cambia la vida de un potencial docente del área de Educación Física, así como las consecuencias para el desarrollo personal que de ella resultan. De la misma manera, los datos resaltan los dilemas a los que esta persona se enfrenta para sentirse cómodo con su propio cuerpo cuando su «imagen de sí» se ha distorsionado. Así, se pretende ayudar a entender de qué manera las subjetividades individuales expresadas en relatos autobiográficos llegan a construir, entender y valorar el cuerpo y el sentido del yo surgidos a raíz de la lesión deportiva. Para dar respuesta a los objetivos pretendidos, metodológicamente nos apoyamos en las posibilidades que brinda la historia de vida como método de introspección, toma de conciencia y modo de conectar con las experiencias corporeizadas del futuro profesorado del ámbito de la Educación Física.Abstract: This study shows how a sport injury can lead to an event that changes a prospective physical educator’s life and the consequences for the personal development that result from it. The same way, the data highlight the dilemma that this person faces to feel comfortable with their own body when his «self-image» has been distorted. In doing so, the article seeks to help us to understand how individual subjectivities expressed on autobiographical narratives about sport injuries go as far as to construct and understand the body and the meaning of the self arising after the injury. With this intention in mind, we rely on the possibilities that life story provides as method of self-analysis, awareness, and a way of connecting with the embodied experiences of physical education student teachers.
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