Teacher socialization in physical education: new perspectives

ABSTRACT

The socialization of physical education teachers has a significant impact on teaching and learning practices. Despite the plethora of previous research examining physical education teachers’ lives and careers, new research and perspectives are always required since educational, social and political cultures change. For this reason, this first edited collection of scholarship on physical education socialization for nearly three decades is long overdue. Teaching Socialization in Physical Education: New Perspectives adopts an innovative, cross-cultural approach, examining how physical education teachers develop and considering the factors that impact on their development and pedagogical practices, in addition to detailing future socialization research possibilities in the subject.

KEYWORDS:

• Teacher socialization
• occupational socialization
• physical education
• teacher education