This study is about how educators understand the task of increasing physical activity to acheive a safe school environment. The purpose of the study was to investigate and describe the experience for the school´s educators of implementing physical activity in their teaching in the school´s different environments and to examine the educators´ experience of the relationship between students physical activity and their security and studytranquillity. The introduction of break activities during the schoolday is part of the school´s work for security and studytranquillity. My empiric material is based on seven interviews with educators who work with students in preschoolclass to grade two. These semi-structured interviews were conducted at the school where I work. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim. I have used grounded theory to analyze my data. The categories that emerged from the interview results were: motives for physical activity, design of physical activity, challenges with physical activity, conditions for physical activity, and development of physical activity. The result I obtained through further analysis of the above categories shows two core categories which constitute of the function of physical activity. These two core categories are: physical activity to achieve results in other areas/subjects and physical activity as intrinsic value.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-208522 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Holmqvist, Katarina |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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