Students' conceptions of sport and sport education

A. MacPhail, G. Kinchin, David Kirk

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Abstract

This article explores a class of Grade 5 (age 9 and 10) children’s conceptions of sport during a season of sport education at Forest Gate Primary School. The purpose, following Kirk and Kinchin (this issue), is to examine the extent to which the potential transfer of learning between school and sport as a community of practice may be possible through sport education in school physical education. With reference to student interviews and drawings we report and discuss children’s conceptions of sport, their experiences of sport outside of the school, and their emerging conceptions of sport education in light of these prior understanding and experiences. We conclude that there was an evident level of compatibility between students’ experiences of sport education and their conceptions of sport more broadly.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)285-299
Number of pages15
JournalEuropean Physical Education Review
Volume9
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2003

Keywords

  • physical education
  • sport
  • sport education
  • student learning

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