Risk and Safety Management in Physical Education: Teachers' Perceptions

Autor/inn/en	Porsanger, Lise; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen
Titel	Risk and Safety Management in Physical Education: Teachers' Perceptions
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 11 (2021), Artikel 321 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Porsanger, Lise) ORCID (Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Risk Management; Safety; Physical Education Teachers; Elementary Secondary Education; Teacher Attitudes; Injuries; Incidence; Athletics; Play; Outdoor Education; Foreign Countries; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Risikomanagement; Sicherheit; Physical education; Physical training; Teacher; Teachers; Sportlehrer; Lehrerverhalten; Vorkommen; Leichtathletik; Spiel; Freiluftunterricht; Ausland; Norwegen
Abstract	Bodily movement is a central component in students' educational experiences in school-based physical education (PE) programs. PE unavoidably involves physical risk. In some respects, the risk of play, sports and adventure is portrayed as necessary and healthy for children's development. However, concerns about students' safety and teachers' liability might generate risk aversion among teachers. This article explores teachers' perceptions of risk and safety management (RSM) in PE. Designed as a mixed methods study, the data include an online survey questionnaire (n = 698) and semi-structured interviews (n = 17) among primary and lower secondary PE teachers in Norway. A majority of the survey respondents report that their students only experience minor injuries in their PE classes. The interview data coincide with these results and indicate that minor injuries are rather common. While the survey results show that teachers mostly perceive RSM to be important in PE, the interview data suggest that the teachers' perceptions of risk are characterized by uncertainty, which restricts the teachers' control by means of RSM. Teachers also accept risk for enhancing students' educative experiences in PE. Consequently, this study contributes to the knowledge of the complexity of risk and teachers' perceptions of RSM in PE. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01