En likvärdig lärarutbildning i idrott och hälsa? : en kvalitativ studie om befintliga rörelsekulturer och beslutsprocesser

Sammanfattning: Aim The aim of this study has been to examine differences and similarities between five universities with physical education teacher programs. The focus has been on the syllabi regarding the subject didactics and the different movement cultures that are represented within the frame of these courses. • What content is represented within the subject didactics courses? • Which underlying frame factors affect the content within the physical education teachers’ education? • What type of decision structures determines the content within the “subject didactics courses”? Method A content analysis was performed on a total of 22 subject didactics syllabi for the physical education teacher program among five universities in Sweden. Furthermore, an interview study was conducted with a total of five handpicked program directors/education officers from five different universities. This study has used Bourdieu’s theory of habitus, field and capital, as well as Göran Linde’s curriculum theory of arenas as its theoretical framework. Results This study shows that all universities fundamentally have the same movement cultures represented in their education. There are only a few practices that are university specific and these are there, mainly by geographical reasons. The results further show that frame factors such as institutional traditions, course budgets, teaching competence and facilities affect the content within the program. Provided, if they are in alliance with the existing guidelines in the Swedish Code of Statues as well as their own institutions’. Finally, the results also indicate that it is the subject teacher educators that seem to have the best opportunities to affect the final content in the physical education teacher program. Conclusion This study has shown that all the universities convey a relative equivalent education when it comes to the movement cultures that are represented. This could, for instance, be understood as a result of strong traditions within the sport movement in Sweden and the teaching teacher meetings, which acts as a framework for the individual university. This study further displays that there seem to be a viscous development process among the universities with longer traditions of physical exercise than the newly setup ones, when it comes to a more contemporary content.