354: Should primary school PE be outsourced? Australian Article Club 2

Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education

The second Australian Article Club takes on outsourcing in PE.

In Australia and NZ, particularly in primary schools (years prep-6) pe is increasingly being taught by outside providers who usually are not pe trained teachers. The syllabus or curriculum in P-6 expects that a classroom generalist teacher can teach PE. It is only in the Australian states of Queensland and Tasmania that specialists trained primary PE teachers are used.

Title of article is in link below: “Should primary school PE be outsourced? An analysis of students’ perspectives by Deng et al., 2023.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25742981.2022.2140594