Returning to the Essence of the PCK Concept: Construction of a PCK Model for Pre-service Physical Education Teachers and Insights for Pre-service Training Curriculum Design
PCK is an important concept in the field of teacher education and serves as a fundamental guarantee for high-quality teaching. This study employs the methods of literature review and logical analysis, utilizing a procedural grounded theory approach. Fifteen pre-service physical education teachers were selected as interview subjects, and 25 related articles were summarized as primary data. Through three levels of coding, a structural model of PCK elements for pre-service physical education teachers was constructed. The model consists of one core category, three main categories, and eleven subcategories. By analyzing “knowledge about subject content”, “knowledge about teaching strategies”, and “knowledge about students” within the model, the study aims to clarify the relationship between the PCK structural model and physical education teacher education curricula, and to design training course content based on this analysis. The results indicate that the current pre-service physical education teacher training curriculum needs to reform the content of the physical education course module by increasing the proportion of PCK (Pedagogical Content Knowledge) courses; expand the practical teaching components of physical education courses by increasing the proportion of practical courses; promptly adjust the content of teacher education courses by increasing the proportion of case-based teaching courses; clarify the course attributes of technical courses and shift the teaching philosophy of skillbased courses.