Pupils' motivational and emotional responses to pedagogies of affect in physical education in Scottish secondary schools

Lamb, Cara A. and Teraoka, Eishin and Oliver, Kimberly L. and Kirk, David (2021) Pupils' motivational and emotional responses to pedagogies of affect in physical education in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (10). 5183. ISSN 1660-4601 (https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105183)

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Abstract

This paper reports on the findings of two studies concerned with pupils' motivational and emotional responses to pedagogies of affect in physical education in Scottish secondary schools. Pedagogies of affect explicitly focus on learning in the affective domain, or what is known in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) as 'personal qualities'. Personal qualities include motivation, confidence and self-esteem, determination and resilience, responsibility and leadership, respect and tolerance, and communication. In one study, led by Teraoka, the researchers explored the ways in which pupils responded, through focus group interviews based on Self-Determination Theory, to teachers who claimed to value and be committed to teaching explicitly for affective learning outcomes. In another study, led by Lamb, the researchers investigated the impact of an activist intervention on girls' experiences of physical education, through their conversations in focus group discussions. Both studies reveal that pupils responded favorably, both in motivation and emotion, to pedagogies of affect in physical education, and that these responses offer a promising basis for future developments.

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Lamb, Cara A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9538-6038, Teraoka, Eishin, Oliver, Kimberly L. and Kirk, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9884-9106;
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