Ph.d. forsvar: Idrætsundervisning, didaktik og studerendes oplevelser

Et studie af betydnings-, menings- og tilblivelsesprocesser i boldspilsundervisning på universitetsniveau i Danmark

Steen Ingemann Jørgensen

Ballgames are the most dominant area in physical education. Some enjoy this, others dislike physical education and ballgames, and ballgames can make the experience negative enough to keep them away.

This thesis investigates students' lived experiences of ballgame education focused on handball at University level, drawing on van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body. The experiences concern more than technical and tactical content: three philosophical perspectives on embodied being emerge, together forming an ethical dimension of teaching.

The thesis aims to develop a ballgame didactic that can transform teaching so that more students undergo a process of becoming through significant and meaningful experiences, thereby shaping their future possible practice as teachers in physical education.

The PhD defence will be conducted in Danish.

Assessment Committee

Associate Professor Helle Winther (chair), Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen.

Professor Gunn Helene Engelsrud, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Associate Professor Lars Emmerik Damgaard Knudsen, Aarhus University.

Supervisor

Associate Professor Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen.

Place

Store Auditorium, Nørre Allé 53, 1. sal, 2200 København.