The purpose of this study was to investigate job satisfaction among physical education instructors at Teachers Colleges in Thailand by using the Faculty Job Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction Scale developed by Olin R. Wood, which was translated into the Thai language by Vatthaisong. The investigation was based on the 10 facets of job satisfaction selected from Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene theory: achievement, growth, interpersonal relations, policy and administration, recognition, responsibility, salary, supervision, the work itself, and working conditions. The questionnaire consisted of 68 items. A 6-point rating scale was used for the 10 facets of job satisfaction. A total of 169 physical education instructors from 36 Teachers Colleges in Thailand, or 86.22% of the population, participated in this study. For this investigation, frequencies, percentages, one-way ANOVA, and the Scheffe method were used for data analysis. Significance was established at the .05 level. From the findings of this study it could be concluded that physical education instructors were satisfied with their jobs. The major sources of satisfaction were ranked as follows: interpersonal relations, the work itself, achievement, recognition, responsibility, working conditions, growth, policy and administration, supervision, and salary. The gender variable did not contribute significantly to job satisfaction, while region, age, level of education, work position, years of teaching experience, and salary level did contribute significantly to job satisfaction. There were no significant differences between the overall job satisfaction (item 68) of the physical education instructors and their demographic classifications. The levels of overall job satisfaction derived from the 10 facets and item 68 were similar. Thus it could be concluded that physical education instructors at Teachers Colleges in Thailand were satisfied with their jobs.

The problem of this study was to obtain the professional opinion of male physical education graduates of North Texas State University with respect to appropriateness of their professional preparation in association with their teaching experiences. An opinionated questionnaire was developed and used to collect the data. Standard and Advanced First Aid and Safety Education, Teaching Physical Education in Secondary Schools and Foundations of Health were the required courses found to be most valuable to the participants in their teaching experiences. Basketball, track and field, football and volleyball were the activities most often used by the participants in their teaching activities.

The purpose of the present investigation was to develop a profile of graduate physical education faculty members in terms of job satisfaction, and to compare the top-20 ranked physical education departments against 20 other randomly selected physical education departments (Massengale & Sage, 1982). The Job Descriptive Index (JDI) was used to measure the five different areas of satisfaction, while the Job Satisfaction Index was used to measure the overall job satisfaction. A questionnaire was also employed to measure selected demographic data. The number of subjects analyzed was 291.

Ethnic minority female physical education (PE) teachers who work in predominantly white schools may face multiple forms of marginalization and oppression due to the embodiment of a racialized and gendered identity which is positioned as “other” within PE contexts. A significant gap exists between diversifying teacher and student populations, thus warranting an examination of how sociocultural factors impact a teacher’s identity. Purpose: To explore how race and gender intersect in the embodied identities of ethnic minority female PE teachers in predominantly white schools in the United States. Methods: This study used narrative and visual research methods from a constructivist paradigmatic lens and followed guidelines for narrative-based, semi-structured, and conversational interviews coupled with photo elicitation. Results: The pilot study demonstrated how participants often felt isolated and uncomfortable in their schools, actively seeking out other ethnic minorities to make meaningful connections and validate their embodied identities. The full study indicated that participants enacted colorblind discourses in order to assimilate into their school settings yet also experienced internal conflict over their super-visibility as minority members within white majoritarian schools. Finally, the full study illustrated participants’ self-affirming strategies and resilience in working for social justice within their predominantly white school contexts, and how notions of transformational resistance sustained their commitment to furthering the field of PE towards more inclusive and critical pedagogies. Discussion: This research demonstrated how schools are often sites of continued racialized marginalization for ethnic minority community members and served as an important reminder that future research should avoid enacting a “deficit” or “savior” position when examining issues of racial inequality. Instead, it is imperative that scholarship in the field employ an agentic perspective which recognizes the autonomy of its subjects in reframing their experiences towards empowerment. The agency of “othered” school community members should be centered within the notion of schools as sites of marginalizing pedagogies for research that aims to destabilize dominant discourses and disrupt the resulting oppression embedded within the educational system in the United States.

Este estudo tem por tema a formação permanente de professores de educação física da Secretaria Municipal de Esportes, Recreação e Lazer de Porto Alegre, bem como as relações desta formação com a prática deste coletivo docente. Esta investigação focaliza os significados atribuídos por estes professores a sua formação permanente na relação com o cotidiano de suas práticas pedagógicas, tendo em vista as características institucionais onde se realiza: de espaço de atuação nãoescolar como praças, parques, centros de comunidade, ruas, associações comunitárias; bem como a grande diversidade de campos de atuação deste professorado que tem no lazer, no esporte e em ações ligadas à promoção da saúde os instrumentos de sua intervenção, nos seus vieses educativos, competitivos e ou lúdicos. A pergunta que sintetiza o problema de investigação e orienta as decisões metodológicas é: Quais significados o professorado de educação física da Secretaria Municipal de Esportes, Recreação e Lazer de Porto Alegre atribui ao seu processo de formação permanente e que impactos este processo produz no cotidiano de sua prática pedagógica? Para responder a esta questão realizei entrevistas semi-estruturadas, analisei documentos do período que vai de 1989 até 2009; com o mesmo intento, utilizei as observações e registros do diário de campo sobre as situações de formação promovidas pela instituição e do cotidiano das práticas dos professores de educação física desta secretaria, que permitissem a construção de quadro de análise e interpretação sobre o material coletado. O processo analítico apontou para algumas categorias significativas para a compreensão de práticas docentes e do papel que a formação permanente ocupa na sua sustentação e na superação dos desafios e contradições presentes nestas práticas. Uma destas categorias situa-se no não-lugar do espaço público da secretaria – a possibilidade e a expectativa de uma ação educativa em espaços que não parecem claramente associados aos significados da instituição escolar Desta decorre uma outra, situada no próprio sujeito do estudo: o “ser-não ser” do professor desta instituição – as tensões e contradições na construção de uma identidade docente – manifestas em trajetos de aproximação à cultura escolar ao mesmo tempo que elenca as peculiaridades distintivas do seu fazer educativo. Articulada às anteriores, a categoria de um personalismo e de uma fragilidade das políticas de formação profissional da secretaria parecem apontar para um papel ao mesmo tempo central desta para construção da identidade e de um referencial para as práticas dos professores, mas contraditoriamente, na sua ausência, a distribuição dispersa dos recursos humanos e o seu isolamento nos diversos espaços da cidade permitem uma sobrevivência que supera a existência de uma proposta políticopedagógica Uma idéia central sugerida pelo estudo é que a proposta de formação permanente, enquanto compromisso da instituição, tenha um caráter definidor de uma identidade docente, articuladora de sujeitos e ações e que permita superar fragilidades temporais e ideológicas das questões político-partidárias – o estudo aponta para a importância de uma estrutura de formação permanente, centrada nas experiências dos professores: espaços e tempos de compartilhamento de êxitos, de busca coletiva de superação de dificuldades e contradições. / The subject of this study is the permanent formation of Physical Education teachers of the “Secretaria Municipal de Esportes, Recreação e Lazer de Porto Alegre” – Sport and Leisure Department – in the city hall of Porto Alegre. The study also deals with the relations between this permanent formation and the practices of the group of teachers. This investigation focuses on the meanings attributed by such group of teachers to their permanent formation in relation to their everyday pedagogical practices, having in mind institutional characteristics and the spaces where practices take place: public squares, parks, community centers and streets. It also focuses on the varied nature of the group’s work (leisure, sport, health) and its educative, competitive or playful aspects. The question which summarizes the investigation and guides methodological decisions is: Which meanings the teachers of the Sport and Leisure Department of Porto Alegre attribute to their process of permanent formation and which impacts such process produces in their everyday pedagogical practices To answer this question, semi-structured interviews were held, documents from 1989 to 2009 were analyzed, observations and field diary entries on the formation moments promoted by the department were used and everyday practices were observed. All that allowed the construction of an analysis and interpretation chart. The analytical process lead the study to point out some meaningful categories to understand teachers’ practices, as well as, the role permanent formation has in helping teachers overcome challenges and contradictions found in their everyday practice. One of these categories depicts the possibilities and expectations of an educative action in spaces which are not clearly associated to a school institution. From the category mentioned above, another one emerges, located within the subject of this study: the teacher’s lack of a clear self identity; tension and contradiction permeate the construction of a clear and steady identity, sometimes moving itself towards the school culture while in other moments it unveils distinctive traits of the teachers’ practices Linked to the previous categories, there is one related to the subjective and fragile department policies related to professional formation. This category seems to indicate a central role in the construction of the teacher’s identity and a referential to the teacher’s practice, yet in the absence of such policies, the scattered distribution of human resources and their isolation in the many different spaces in the city of Porto Alegre allow them to outlive the existence of a political and pedagogical project. A key point dealt within this study is that the commitment of the institution towards permanent formation should help define the teacher’s identity, help articulate subjects and actions and allow teachers to overcome temporary difficulties caused by ideological and political matters. The study points to the significance a permanent formation structure has and that it should be based on teachers’ experience and provide them with the opportunity to share cases of success and seek solutions to overcome difficulties and contradictions.

The state has ordered the establishment of schools for the education of all the children in the state. Each child is entitled to as thorough an education as the community can afford, and this education can be attained only when the teachers selected are the best possible to obtain with the money available.

This thesis represents a part of a program of study that is reaching a closure. The broadest brush that could be applied to my work is that it concerns Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE), that it focuses on aspects of professional socialisation, and that it involves various case studies utilising naturalistic inquiry. Whilst it would be impossible and naive to believe that the reading of these texts will produce the meanings that I encourage, or have internalised, nevertheless the order of reading is at least something that I can argue for. Read in the order I suggest throughout the thesis I am hopeful that my subjectivities, and the learning and understandings I have reached may become clear. The purpose of this two part thesis is an exploration of the interplay or dialectic that exists between PETE students, academic staff and the subject matter within PETE. I have had to come to understand the limitations and advantages of insider research as the work has been completed at my University in the School of Human Movement and Sports Science where I have worked for twenty years. This thesis examines the extent to which studentship and oppositional behaviour underlies the dialectic that exists between the students and the various discourses within the program. I have written the study in two very different formats, one, a collection of stories about PETE and the other, an interpretative case study conducted during 1993 and 1994. Within the case study, studentship and oppositional behaviour were viewed as a measure of the extent to which students react and push against the forces of socialisation within their PETE program that is seen to represent dominant discourses, The following broad research questions were considered to enable the above analysis. 1. What is the nature of studentship and oppositional behaviour in a high status subject within PETE compared to a subject that is seen by students to be of little relevance and of low status? 2. How are studentship and oppositional behaviour related to students subjective warrants? 3. How are the studentship and oppositional behaviours exhibited by students related to the pedagogy and discourses reflected in the knowledge, beliefs and practices within the two sites. The starting point for this research was a study conducted as a totally separate research task (Swan, 1992) that investigated the hierarchies of subject knowledge within a PETE site and investigated the influence of such hierarchies upon student intention. A great deal of meta analysis exists about the manner in which a technocratic rationality pervades PETE but very little case study material of what this means to students and academic staff within such institutions is available. The stories in Between The Rings And Under The Gym Mat, which is the second part of this thesis, represent ‘the data’ differently from the case study, but they speak their own truth. At times the nature of the story is indistinguishable from the reality of the case study. Wexler (1992) undertook an ethnographic study about identity formation in three very different high schools, and published the findings in a book entitled Becoming Somebody. His introductory words about the nature of the social story he tells, are significant to this study and story. Social history is recounted by creative intervention that can only be made from culturally accessible materials. Ethnography is neither an objective realist, nor subjective imaginist account. Rather, it is an historical artefact that is mediated by elaborated distancing of culturally embedded and internally contradictory (but seemingly independent and coherent) concepts that take on a life of their own as theory. So, this is not ‘news from nowhere,’ but a theoretically structured story where both the story and its structure are part of my times. (p.6) The case study before you is organised with an analysis of studentship and oppositional behaviour detailed in chapter one. The following chapter conceptualises studentship and oppositional behaviour in relation to particular themes of professional socialisation, resistance to oppression and youth culture. Chapter three locates the case study to the major paradigmatic debates about the value and nature of the subject matter content within PETE, Chapter four outlines the case site, the research process and the research dilemma’s confronted in this study. The remaining three chapters are the case record as I can best understand it. In Between the Rings and under the Gym Mat (part B) the story most directly concerned with studentship and oppositional behaviour, is called Tale of Two Classes’. It takes on a very different reality to the case study (part A) and much can be said about the reality of lived experience which can be portrayed in narrative form as opposed to a clinical case study. Many of the other stories pose similar images that are contradictory and never quite complete. I have written a separate methodological section for the narrative stories. It is my intention that the case study and the series of stories should be viewed as essentially complementary, but also a discrete representation of a part of PETE. As part of the Ed D program I have undertaken four discrete research tasks as the starting point for this research I have referred to the first one (Hierarchies of Subject knowledge within PETE). I also undertook an action research project about ‘Teaching Poorly by Choice.’ A further piece of research was a somewhat reflective effort to draw together what this has all meant to me from a subjective and reflexive perspective. Such efforts are often seen as being self indulgent, as subjectivity in the form of lived experience sits uneasily in academia. A final paper involved an evaluation of Between the Rings and Under the Gym Mat from a pedagogical perspective by PETE professionals around the world. And that's the way things turned out.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 131-138) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 103-108). Also available in print.

The use of consultation as a means of delivering educational instruction to students with disabilities in the general physical education setting is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States and is most frequently operationalized in a triadic model. In this model the adapted physical educator serves as the consultant, the general physical educator serves as the consultee, and the student serves as the target, or the one who receives the intervention. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to answer the following questions. What are adapted physical education specialists' perceptions about consultation as a delivery model for individuals with disabilities? How do adapted physical education specialists define an effective consultation model for adapted physical education? How do adapted physical education specialists define their role in the consultation process? Six adapted physical education specialists participated in this study. Analysis included two in-depth individual interviews, a one-day field observation with each participant, researcher notes, and a final focus group including, definition, situational context factors, effectiveness, skills, training, consultation model preferences and roles. It was apparent from these participants that consultation interactions on behalf of students with disabilities varied greatly based on the multidimensional and dynamic nature of the educational environment. Results showed that the use of consultation was more prevalent with middle and high school students. It was also found that adapted physical education (APE) consultation could be presented on a continuum from proximal to distal, dependent on the degree of interaction between the APE specialist, the general education teacher and the student. The effectiveness of consultation was dependent upon the general education teacher's attitude, the APE specialist's skills, and the degree of administrative support. Finally, five roles of the APE consultant were delineated from the participants' descriptions of their job-related interactions. These roles were; advocate, educator, courier, supporter/helper, and resource coordinator. / Graduation date: 1999