Tag: Lars Bjørke

The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women by Amani Khalaf. H. Alghamdi & Ali Aldossari.

In this feature article, Lars Bjørke, Øyvind Førland Standal and Kjersti Mordal Moen summarize their article in Sport, Education and Society, in which they evaluated three physical education teachers’ engagement with a prolonged transformative continuing professional development initiative using participatory action research to implement Cooperative Learning. Their thorough qualitative study revealed four themes relevant to understanding the teachers’ journeys.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘While we may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink’: three physical education teachers’ professional growth through and beyond a prolonged participatory action research project by Lars Bjørke, Øyvind Førland Standal & Kjersti Mordal Moen.

The purpose of PESP is to provide a forum for high quality educational research for a national and international readership. We intend this research to have a high impact on both policy and practice. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION: A STUDY OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING JOURNEY OVER 24 LESSONS by Lars Bjørke & Kjersti Mordal Moen.