Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is a frequently used concept in the educational
community. Its usage is so widespread it appears to function as a “lingua franca” across …

The focus of this special issue is how learning occurs in physical education (PE) practice in
relation to different movement cultures in various contexts. The basis for the special issue is …

Despite increasing policy emphasis on improving teacher quality, little is known about how
teachers acquire their movement content knowledge in physical education teacher …

This literature review examines curricular space allocated to activity based/movement
content courses in Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) pre-service programs …

This paper presents a summary of the research on teacher (and preservice teacher) content
knowledge within physical education teaching and teacher education. It is organized around …

Purpose: Common and specialized content knowledge (CCK and SCK) and performance
are requirements in the Society of Health and Physical Educators America initial physical …

Background: Teacher education is a complex endeavor designed to prepare preservice
teachers for the task of teaching physical education to students in K–12 schools. Yet, there is …

Background: The role that content knowledge, an important component of practical subject
matter knowledge, plays for pre-service teachers (PSTs) in physical education teacher …

Purpose: Instructional tasks are a form of content knowledge that can be defined as
specialized content knowledge (SCK). We examined the changes in the use of instructional …

Lack of content knowledge in teachers is one of the most challenging tasks confronting
teacher education. We examine the extent to which content knowledge taught in pre-service …