“I want kids to have the same feeling as I do towards physical activity”: Acculturation of British preservice physical education teachers
Matthew D Curtner-Smith,
Andrew Theodoulides,
Anne Chappell
et al.
Abstract:The purpose of this study was to describe the acculturation of six British physical education (PE) preservice teachers (PSTs). The research questions we sought to answer were: (a) What were the PSTs’ values, beliefs, and perspectives regarding PE? and (b) What factors shaped the PSTs’ values, beliefs, and perspectives during their acculturation? We collected data with three types of formal interviewing and employed standard interpretive techniques to reduce the data to themes. Key findings were that the PSTs a… Show more
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