The Role of PETE in Developing Joy-Oriented Physical Educators

• Autores: Bonnie Tjeerdsma Blankenship, Suzan F. Ayers
• Localización: Quest, ISSN 0033-6297, Vol. 62, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 171-183
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The current focus on utilitarian outcomes (e.g., fitness, health, skill development) in physical education has not been effective in producing life-long movers and makes physical activity a duty to be performed. An alternative to a utilitarian focus is to have a joy-oriented focus in which physical activity is promoted because it is joyful, pleasurable, and personally meaningful. In this paper, we present factors that inhibit a joy-oriented focus in physical education and reasons physical education teacher education (PETE) programs have thus far failed to produce joy-oriented physical education teachers. We then present a new approach to PETE�the foundational approach�in which the joy of movement forms the foundation of and is threaded throughout the program. Ten specific changes to PETE programs are proposed to produce joy-oriented physical education teachers.