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Students' conceptions of sport and sport education

  • Ann MacPhail
    ,
  • David Kirk
    ,
  • Gary Kinchin
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

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.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 285-299

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

European Physical Education Review (Volume 9, Issue 3)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/10/2003

Publication status

Published - 01/10/2003

ISSN

1356-336X

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/229034

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