Sport Education: Promoting Team Affiliation through Physical Education

• DOI: 10.1123/jtpe.23.2.106
• Publication Date: 2016-08-10T11:41:20Z
• Authors: Ann MacPhail; David Kirk; Gary Kinchin
• Keywords: Physical Education; Social Skills

The development of feelings identity, the sense belonging to a team, and growth social skills are experiences that sport, if properly conducted, is well placed offer (Siedentop, 1994). Evidence suggests some characteristics traditional, multiactivity forms physical education work against realizing these goals (Locke, 1992). Siedentop’s Sport Education (SE) model one attempt overcome this shortcoming by recasting units as seasons maintaining persisting groups teams throughout season. Extended intended foster team affiliation while promoting affective common objectives in education. We report on 16-week SE unit includes over 70 Year-5 students (9- 10-year-olds) from UK school. Our findings show opportunity become affiliated with was an attractive feature pupils’ experience that, under framework SE, there obvious investment made Forest Gate relation their identity involvement members group.