Background: In recent years there has been an increasing amount of research focusing on
health in physical education (PE). Much of this research includes discussions on different …

The paper is the José María Cagigal Scholar Lecture presented at the AIESEP World
Congress in Edinburgh 2018. In the paper I argue that the only real sustainable aim for …

Youth sport is habitually promoted as an important context for learning that contributes to a
person's broader development beyond sport-specific skills. A growing body of research in …

ABSTRACT Background: Assessment for learning (AfL) is now marketed across the Western
world as a key to an improved goal attainment in most school subjects. The concept has also …

Health in physical education (PE) has in recent decades received growing public and
political attention. PE is recognized as playing an important role in promoting health and …

Background: Movement is key in physical education, but the educational value of moving is
sometimes obscure. In Sweden, recent school reforms have endeavoured to introduce …

Background: Advocacy through the work of many scholars in physical education and sport
pedagogy highlights a significant direction towards which physical education is moving in …

In the Norwegian curriculum for physical education (PE), health is one of several topics
students should learn about. However, the way in which many educators conceptualize …

There is a tendency in European education policy to emphasise more and better deliberate
learning outcomes. The tendency is criticised for taking an instrumental view of education …

Background Scholars have suggested that students' views of what is important for them to
know as Physical Education (PE) teachers are a result of what is assessed in Physical …