Where did the Education Disappear from Physical Education? Dr Risto Marttinen (Pt1)

Part 1. Dr Risto Marttinen - Physical education | Lifelong participation | Student centricity

 

Dr Risto Marttinen is an assistant professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.

• The increasing focus of PA in school Physical Education (forgetting the E in PE)
• The impossibility of PE (in the USA at least) to meet the MVPA goals through prescriptive PE due to time restrictions (obesity, MVPA)

Check excellent podcast from Risto's team: Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education. You can find it for example here.

 

Timestamps:

5:00 Why wrestling teaches a lot of life skills?

10:00 Where did the education disappear from the PE?

15:30 What is role of motor competence for lifelong participation?

18:00 How to be student-centric in PE?

20:00 Does PE need to be fun?

23:00 Simple put clever: informal sports!

24:00 What are constituents of meaningful experiences in PE?

29:00 Lifelong participation – goal of PE?

33:00 Why PE teachers do not need to study more exercise physiology?

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