Physical Education in the age of Covid-19

Lakkappa Boodanavar

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.23786

Physical Education in the age of Covid-19

Author(s)	Lakkappa Boodanavar
Country	India
Abstract	Physical education (PE) has been traditionally considered as a practical and ‘hands-on’ subject in schools, where close proximity and physical contact is common, particularly in India which has a high proximity culture. Significantly, the delivery of PE has changed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and this brings significant consequences for preservice PE teachers. The aim of the paper is to explore the changes of PE during Covid-19 and the effects on pre-service teachers. Semi-structured interviews were used to produce data with a group of 12 preservice PE teachers from India (four women and eight men) who were undertaking their practicum in PE when the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed in India. Dredging was used as an analytical technique to identify the relations and affects that comprised assemblages of bodies, things and social formations. Results suggest that preservice teachers are having difficulties in re-assembling PE in the age of Covid-19, and that this produces the affects of precarity, fear and insecurity. Furthermore, the PE re-assemblage also results in a shift of pedagogical affects. The participants particularly struggled to think on a PE assemblage that does not include the affect of physical encounters with their students. The new assemblage of PE also included encounters with digital technologies, which allowed for particular openings and closings for a re-alignment into the shifted PE. Pre-service teachers were unfamiliar with the way the PE assemblage has shifted, and this shifting affected their ability to produce affects in the ‘new PE’. The new PE assemblage leads to a significant change in the culture of PE teaching in India, where physical contact between teachers and students was previously normal and taken for granted.
Keywords	1. Physical education 2. Covid-19 pandemic 3. Re-assembling
Field	Sociology > Sports
Published In	Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024
Published On	2024-06-30
Cite This	Physical Education in the age of Covid-19 - Lakkappa Boodanavar - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 3, May-June 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.23786
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i03.23786
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gt3nc2

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