Fitton-Davies, K, Foweather, L, Watson, PM, Bardid, F, Roberts, SJ, Davids, K, O'Callaghan, L, Crotti, M and Rudd, J (2021) Assessing the Motivational Climates in Early Physical Education Curricula underpinned by Motor Learning Theory: SAMPLE-PE. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. ISSN 1740-8989

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Background: Traditionally, Physical Education (PE) has adopted a multi-skills approach, where children generally engage in decontextualised practice of sport techniques to develop specific movement skills and facilitate sports participation. This approach has been critiqued for having a weak conceptual and philosophical justification, and lack of empirical proof of its educational value. The SAMPLE-PE research project set out to challenge this by creating two PE curricula distinguished by contrasting theories of motor learning: information processing theory and ecological dynamics. While both approaches have shown promise in enhancing children’s movement skills, to date there has been little consideration of their impact on motivational climate of primary PE lessons. This study explored to what extent traditional PE, ecological dynamics, and information processing theory-based approaches create empowering and disempowering motivational climates when viewed through a self-determination and achievement goal theory lens. Method: Forty-four PE lessons were video recorded and coded by two trained researchers using the Multidimensional Motivational Climate Observation System. ANOVA, MANOVA and Bonferroni post-hoc tests were run to explore differences in data on motivational climate under the three different pedagogical approaches. Results: The group taught with concepts from ecological dynamics (referred to as Ecological) displayed a significantly lower disempowering motivational climate in comparison to the group taught with a basis in information processing theory (referred to as IPT) and the traditional PE groups. The ecological group revealed significantly more autonomy support than the traditional PE and the IPT group. The IPT group methods provided significantly more structure than traditional PE and the ecological group. Conclusion: The findings of this study have shown how the approach taken in delivering PE in primary schools may differentially affect motivational climates. Results imply that underpinning PE with theories of motor learning provides differing, viable and beneficial alternatives to create positive learning environments, compared to traditional PE practices.

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Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. K. Fitton Davies, L. Foweather, P. M. Watson, F. Bardid, S. J. Roberts, K. Davids, L. O’Callaghan, M. Crotti & J. R. Rudd (2021) Assessing the motivational climates in early physical education curricula underpinned by motor learning theory: SAMPLE-PE, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2021.2014436. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC1200 Sports Medicine
Divisions:	Sport & Exercise Sciences
Publisher:	Routledge
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2021 10:45
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2023 00:50
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/17408989.2021.2014436
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15818

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