The Pressure to Be Perfect: The Importance of Physical Educators' Identity

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Twelve
  In Roundtable Session: Stories and Tensions Around Teacher Identity (Table 13)

Abstract

Despite the fact that physical education has a positive impact on student’s physical, mental, social, and emotional health, schools have cut physical education programs. The marginalization of physical education also marginalizes physical education teachers.
The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to inquire into the experiences of physical education teachers to see what in their personal lives led them to become physical education teachers and what personal experiences helped develop or took away from their professional teacher identity.

Authors

• Jodie Diane Leiss, Northwest Missouri State University
  Presenting Author

• Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University
  Presenting Author