Physical education teachers’ (lack of) gymnastics instruction: an exploration of a neglected curriculum requirement

摘要: Gymnastics is named as one of four or five broad movement domains within all of Canada's provincial/territorial physical education (PE) curriculums. However, in practice gymnastics is afforded less relative instructional time than are all other movement domains. In light of this observation, we researched Atlantic Canadian PE teachers' gymnastics instruction, aiming to answer three primary research questions:(1) Why does gymnastics occupy such a limited (relative) amount of instructional time?;(2) What value do PE teachers see in teaching …