Including pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in National Curriculum Physical Education: a brief review

Smith, Andy; Thomas, Nigel

doi:10.1080/08856250500491849

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“…Swedish and international research on children and young people with disabilities in sport activities has, until recently, been more or less a non-issue (Smith & Thomas, 2006). While some research has examined teachers' experiences of Physical Education and Health (PEH), a gap exists in the literature about the experiences of children and young people with disabilities involved in sport activities (c.f., Fitzgerald, Jobling, & Kirk, 2003;Smith & Thomas, 2006).…”

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“…Over the past 20 years, the inclusion of students in need of special support in mainstream educational settings has increased in many countries (Fitzgerald, 2005;Smith & Thomas, 2006). Though "inclusion" is a political term more frequently used in the compulsory school system (Maxwell & Granlund, 2011;Nilholm, 2006).…”

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“…Through sport as a social activity, they can learn to establish and keep friendships, negotiate with others, solve conflicts and develop leadership qualities and self-confidence (Özdemir & Stattin, 2012). However, studies have suggested that children and young people with disabilities tend to be excluded from sport (Kristén, Patriksson, & Fridlund, 2002;Smith & Thomas, 2006;Vickerman, Hayes, & Whetherly, 2003). For example, Vickerman et al (2003) found that few activities are inclusive and that children and young people with disabilities are only to a limited extent offered opportunities for full participation in sport in comparison with non-disabled people of the same age.…”

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“…While some research has examined teachers' experiences of Physical Education and Health (PEH), a gap exists in the literature about the experiences of children and young people with disabilities involved in sport activities (c.f., Fitzgerald, Jobling, & Kirk, 2003;Smith & Thomas, 2006). For many children and young people, sport forms a significant part of their lives, shaping their development into members of society and the sorts of people they become.…”

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Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports

Wickman

2015

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People with disabilities seldom get a chance to voice their opinions on their sport experiences. A deeper understanding of the context-related experiences of sport is a prerequisite for teachers and leaders to be able to provide adequate, inclusive and meaningful activities. The aim of this qualitative case study was to examine how young people with disabilities made sense of sport, within both the compulsory school system and the voluntary sports movement. The study involved 10 young adults (aged 16 to 29 years) with disabilities, five males and five females. All the participants had rich experiences of sport. An inductive approach to qualitative content analysis of semi-structured interviews was used to enable individuals to explain and give meaning to their experiences of sport including those pertaining to gender and inclusion. The findings illustrated that dominating gender and ability norms influenced the interviewees' understanding of themselves in relation to sport; as a consequence, some of the female interviewees had a more diverse, sometimes contradictory experience of sport than the male interviewees. The basic premise of this study is that researchers can develop more insightful understandings of inclusion by studying the subjective meanings that are constructed by people with disabilities in their sport experiences.

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Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports

Wickman

2015

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“…The inclusion of pupils with SEN in mainstream PE lessons has allegedly been compromised further by the tendency of many LSAs, who have increasingly become a central part of a PE teacher's figuration, to place varying degrees of constraint upon the everyday activities of PE teachers (Hodge et al, 2004;Smith, 2004;Smith and Green, 2004;Smith and Thomas, 2006). Many LSAs are traditionally classroom based assistants and their lack of PE training has resulted in some PE teachers considering some LSAs 'more of a hindrance than a help' in relation to the impact their presence has on the effectiveness of their teaching (Smith and Green, 2004: 601).…”

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The Inclusion of Pupils with Special Educational Needs

Maher¹

2010

Sport Science Review

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T he paper examines the planned and unplanned outcomes associated with the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in the National Curriculum Physical Education (NCPE) in Britain. This involves the use of key concepts from figurational sociology, and documentary analysis, to examine the emergence of disability as a social issue in British society and in secondary school education. Norbert Elias' game models (Elias, 1978) are then used to analyse the NCPE 1992, 1995 and 2000 documents, and their associated consultation materials. This allows the researcher to identify all the major players involved in the formulation of the NCPEs, and the extent to which the objectives of each player, and their subsequent power struggles with each other, impacted upon the overall objectives and content of the NCPEs. The game models are then used to examine the extent to which the objectives of the players involved in the implementation of the NCPE generated outcomes which none of the players planned for, or could have foreseen.

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Empirical Study on Primary School Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Inclusive Education in Jakarta, Indonesia

Kurniawati

Minnaert

Siahaan

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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Including pupils with special educational needs and disabilities in National Curriculum Physical Education: a brief review

Cited by 39 publications

References 14 publications

Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports

Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports

The Inclusion of Pupils with Special Educational Needs

Empirical Study on Primary School Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Inclusive Education in Jakarta, Indonesia

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