| Beddoes et al. (2014) | Overcoming Marginalization of Physical Education in America’s Schools with Professional Learning Communities | Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance | USA | Qualitative research | To investigate what is “professional learning communities” and how it can be used to overcome the conditions, forces, and barriers that have marginalised physical education |
| Blankenship (2017) | We Have Met the Enemy – And It Is Us | International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education | USA | Qualitative research | Ideas are presented on steps that physical education professionals could take to stop being their own worst enemy and possibly raise the status of physical education and PETE |
| Carson et al. (2016) | Exploring the Job Satisfaction of Late Career Secondary Physical Education Teachers | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To develop a qualitative understanding of facet job satisfaction among late career physical education teachers |
| Cazers and Curtner-Smith (2017) | Robin’s Story: Life History of an Exemplary American Female Physical Education Teacher | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To construct the life history of Robin, an exemplary female physical educator, to hear her voice and to explore ways in which she experienced marginalisation |
| Christodoulou (2010) | The Status of Physical Education in Cypriot Schools | Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research | Hungary | Qualitative research | To discover situation and status of physical education at Cypriot schools, the most dominant ideals and predominant contents of physical education, and its future as a subject in the schools |
| Cooper et al. (2016) | Implementing Policies to Enhance Physical Education and Physical Activity in Schools | Research quarterly for exercise and sport | USA | Qualitative research | To provide an overview of national physical activity recommendations and policies and to discuss how these important initiatives can be implemented in local schools |
| Cruickshank et al. (2021) | Encounters in a marginalised subject: The experiential challenges faced by Tasmanian Health and Physical Education teachers | Australian Journal of Education | Australia | Qualitative research | To ascertain which challenges are the most difficult for Australian health and physical education teachers, and whether this difficulty varies according to their level of teaching experience and the ages of students within their classrooms |
| Dauenhauer et al. (2019) | State Physical Education Policy Changes From 2001 to 2016 | J School Health | USA | Quantitative approach | State physical education policy changes in USA from 2001 to 2016 by analysing data reported in The Shape of the Nation Report |
| Ensign and Woods (2017) | Navigating the Realities of the Induction Years: Exploring Approaches for Supporting Beginning Physical Education Teachers | Quest | USA | Qualitative research | To examine the factors that enhance or constrain beginning teachers’ induction processes and offer recommendations for supporting physical educators as they assimilate into the field |
| Ferry and Westerlund (2023) | Professional networks, collegial support, and school leaders: How physical education teachers manage reality shock, marginalization, and isolation in a decentralized school system | European Physical Education Review | Sweden | Qualitative research | To provide insights into physical education teachers’ experiences of reality shock, isolation, and marginalisation over time, as well as how they managed these challenges |
| Fitzpatrick (2023) | Physical education: a reflection on subject status, the critical, and the wellbeing agenda | Sport, Education and Society | New Zealand | Qualitative research | To reflect on the field of physical education |
| Flory (2015) | Early Career Experiences of Physical Education Teachers in Urban Schools | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To examine how three physical education teachers’ early career experiences influenced their teaching in urban schools |
| France et al. (2011) | Increasing the Value of Physical Education in Schools and Communities | Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance | USA | Qualitative research | To examine select current innovations that may help in combating many of the issues of the marginalisation of physical education, and to examine the concept of community-based physical education and its role in addressing the marginalisation of physical education |
| Gaudreault et al. (2021) | Advocating for Physical Education Through Visibility and Relationship Building | Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance | USA | Qualitative research | (a) To describe how physical educators can promote themselves and their subject through the two strategies of intentional visibility and thoughtful relationship building and (b) to outline how educational experiences focused on the required knowledge, skills, and dispositions toward advocacy could be embedded in PETE programs |
| Gaudreault et al. (2018) | Understanding the perceived mattering of physical education teachers | Sport, Education and Society | USA | A mixed-methods design | To investigate both the perceived mattering of physical education as a subject and of those who teach it by drawing upon both qualitative and quantitative data |
| Gonçalves et al. (2022) | “We united to defend ourselves and face our struggles”: nurturing a physical education teachers’ community of practice in a precarious context | Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy | Brazil, Ireland, Australia | Qualitative research | To investigate the process of nurturing a democratic PE-CoP in a precarious, Brazilian school context |
| Gross and Buchanan (2014) | Perspectives of Physical Education Specialists who Teach in Large Class Settings | Journal of Physical Education and Sports Management | USA | Qualitative research | To determine the effects of teaching large classes on the professional and personal attitudes of elementary physical education specialists that teach in settings with large student: teacher ratios |
| Hagenah et al. (2022) | “Does Anyone Even Care That I’m Down Here?”: Creating Shared Values in a District-Wide Physical Education Professional Learning Community | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To examine what shared values emerge when physical education teachers from different schools across a midsized urban district engage in a yearlong Professional Learning Communities |
| Henninger and Carlson (2011) | Strategies to Increase the Value of Physical Educators in K-12 Schools | Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance | USA | Qualitative research | To examine the effects of marginalisation on physical education teachers’ status and to discuss ways in which physical educators can minimise those effects |
| Houlihan and Green (2006) | The changing status of school sport and physical education: explaining policy change | Sport, Education and Society | UK | Qualitative research | To examine the changing political salience of school sport and physical education over the last 15 years |
| Lawson et al. (2021) | Chapter 8: Collective Action for Learning, Improvement, and Redesign. | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To present a new agenda for physical education with roles and responsibilities for each stakeholder |
| Lux and McCullick (2011) | How One Exceptional Teacher Navigated Her Working Environment as the Teacher of a Marginal Subject | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To analyse how one exceptional elementary physical education teacher navigated her working environment as the teacher of a marginal subject |
| McLoughlin et al. (2020) | The Status of Physical Education Within a Nationally Recognized School Health and Wellness Program | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | A mixed-methods design | To investigate the status of physical education within a nationally recognised comprehensive school health promotion climate |
| Michael et al. (2019) | Physical Education Policies in US Schools: Differences by School Characteristics | J School Health | USA | Qualitative research | To implement physical education policies, the United States identified in SHAPE America’ Essential Components of Physical Education Document and how implementation of these policies varies by school |
| Richards et al. (2018b) | Physical education teachers’ perceptions of perceived mattering and marginalization | Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy | USA | Qualitative research | To understand how the social environment of schools influences physical education teachers’ perceptions of marginalisation and perceived mattering, and how these two constructs interact |
| Richards et al. (2018a) | Personal accomplishment, resilience, and perceived mattering as inhibitors of physical educators’ perceptions of marginalization and isolation | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | A mixed-methods design | To examine hypothesised inhibitors of marginality and isolation, including feelings of personal accomplishment, resilience, and perceived mattering |
| Richardson (2011) | Physical Education Teacher Education: Creating a Foundation to Increase the Status of Physical Education in Schools | Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance | USA | Qualitative research | To present solutions to the problem of the marginality of physical education in schools through the transformation of PETE |
| Scanlon et al. (2021) | Teacher agency in enacting physical education in a period of curriculum change and reform in Ireland | The Curriculum Journal | Ireland | Qualitative research | To explore the potential evolution of the role of teachers as “policy actors” |
| Sheehy (2011) | Addressing Parents’ Perceptions in the Marginalization of Physical Education | Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance | USA | Qualitative research | To examine parental perceptions of physical education and provide suggestions for addressing those perceptions in an effort to elevate the status of physical education in schools |
| Simonton et al. (2022b) | How teachers feel: exploring secondary physical educators’ emotions, control beliefs, and coping mechanisms on the job | Sport, Education and Society | USA | Qualitative research | To explore how physical education teachers interpret their emotions while teaching and what internal and external factors may impact their perceived ability to control and cope with their positive and negative emotional situations |
| Ulas and Senel (2020) | The relationship between commitment to teaching, teacher efficacy, marginalisation and isolation: A study on physical education teachers | Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences | Turkey | Quantitative approach | To examine the relationship between commitment to teaching, teacher efficacy, physical education teachers’ marginalisation and isolation |
| van der Mars et al. (2021) | Chapter 2: Reversing Policy Neglect in U.S. Physical Education: A Policy-Focused Primer | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To explore recommendations for research and development in physical education that are policy-oriented and structure the new agenda are presented |
| Ward et al. (2021) | Chapter 3: PK–12 School Physical Education: Conditions, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions | Journal of Teaching in Physical Education | USA | Qualitative research | To address future alternatives for PK–12 physical education |
| Whipp et al. (2007) | Experienced Physical Education Teachers Reaching Their “Use-by Date”: Powerless and Disrespected | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | Australia | Qualitative research | To retrospective study of the reasons for dissatisfaction with the working life of physical education teachers that led them to leave the profession |
| Woods and Lynn (2014) | One Physical Educator’s Career Cycle: Strong Start, Great Run, Approaching Finish | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | USA | Qualitative research | To gain an understanding of a veteran physical educator’s movement through his career cycle and the environmental factors that both enhanced and constrained his career development |
