Abstract
This document reports the work done during the Primary Education Physical Education Teacher Education (PRIME PETE) project development in order to formulate the Recommendations on Primary Physical Education Teacher Education intending to provide a basis and rationale for the development andimplementation of future primary Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programmes.After a landscape analysis of PETE in Europe took place during intellectual output (IO) 1, the recommendations build on a literature review that aimed to identify and highlight findings from thepublished literature that can inform the development of the PRIME PETE programme. Secondly, a Delphistudy was conducted to find a consensus among experts on which aspects of primary PETE are mostimportant. Furthermore, the recommendations will be derived from a mapping of and an exchange onthe primary PETE course modules the Higher Education Institutions (HEI) project partners are offering inthe existing programmes at their institutions. At the beginning all HEI partner institutions that are activein primary PETE and implement respective study programmes in their respective national contexts, sharedand learned from each other how the respective primary PETE programmes look like and whatexperiences partners were able to make during the past years when implementing those programmes.This kind of mapping and exchange amongst partners, together with the analysis during IO1 was necessaryto formulate valid recommendations on Primary PETE.Besides the project partners, who will need and use the recommendations as a basis for the projects’further development the target groups addressed were the following: Teacher education institutions;Teacher educators; Researchers active in the field of teacher education; Primary teachers teachingprimary physical education (PE); NGOs like research associations, teacher associations, etc.; Stakeholdersand policy makers in charge of teacher education.The recommendations made below result from an integration work of the recommendationsarising from three sources of the project: the output of the literature review and the output ofthe Delphi study - resulting from IO1 – and the Learning, and the Teaching or Training Activities(LTT) 1 output during the project. The analysis and integration between information outputobtained from the LTT and Delphi study output was easy and stablished in a concrete format. As for the integration of the suggestions arising from the literature review, the recommendations on Primary Physical Education Teacher Education were formulated in a more generic way, allowing some of them to be considered in more thanone of the dimensions formulated through the Delphi study.In the following, the recommendations are allocated to the dimensions formulated through theDelphi study. The sources of the recommendations are indicated in each case. The recommendations could be based on one, two or three of the considered sources.