Abstract
The aim of the PRIME PETE project is to bring together European Higher Education Institutions(HEIs) and other stakeholders active in primary PETE, to promote their cooperation and state suggestions toqualify PRIME PETE. The main driver underpinning the recent demand for improved PETE provision in Europeis the perception that children are receiving a mediocre quality of PE and are subject to reduced physical andmental health. Calls for a more effective study programme have been aimed at the primary school level, whereit has been suggested that only about a third of schools provide adequate PE (Elliot et al., 2013). Consequently,and to address the gap from a point of view of HEI’s, the aim of this intellectual output (IO#4) is to providetheoretical and methodological guidelines for a modular study programme for Primary PETE based on theprevious findings and recommendations from PRIME PETE IO#1-3.
The overview of the provision of PETE programs in Europe, the report on book analysis of MacPhail, Tannehill,and Avsar (2019), the literature review and the Delphi Consensus Study, together with the mapping, discussionand analysis of partner PETE study programmes (IO#1, see table 1 and figure 1), the synthesis ofrecommendations and the final recommendations and conclusions (IO#2), and the formulation of a requiredprofile of a primary PE teacher (IO#3) have provided a complex and, at the same time, very consistent sourceof information for the completion of IO#4.