Universality and Uniqueness of Students' Situational Interest in Physical Education: A Comparative Study.

Situational interest (SI) has been conceptualized in physical education (PE) as a multidimensional construct including five dimensions: instant enjoyment, exploration intention, attention demand, novelty and challenge. Consistent with Ding, Sun and Chen (2013), who argued for the need 'to develop cross-culture models to examine the universality of the motivation constructs', the purpose of this study was to investigate the universality and uniqueness of students' SI by comparing three French-speaking PE contexts. Participants were 1812 secondary school students from Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

How second-grade students internalize rules during teacher-student transactions: a case study.

Background: Vygotsky's theory of the internalization of signs provided the basis for this study.

Aims: This study tried to analyse the processes by which second-grade students internalize school rules.

Sample: Ethnographic data were collected on 102 lessons in a second-grade class (6-8 years) during 1 year.