Ivo Mesquita
Biographic Data
| ID | 894176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivo Mesquita |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mesquita |
| SIGNATURE | MESQUITA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5985-9686 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How Can Pedagogical Strategies Empower Student-Coaches During a Sport Education Season? A Collaborative Action Research Study with Preservice Teachers
This study examined how pedagogical strategies can support student-coaches’ (SCs) empowerment and promote preservice teachers’ (PSTs) professional learning within Sport Education (SE) seasons. Sixty-seven tenth-grade students (aged 15–18) participated in SE units taught by three PSTs (two males, one female, aged 22–25) enrolled in a master’s degree program in Teaching of Physical Education in Primary and Secondary Education in northern Portugal. …
Reconciling model fidelity and teaching agency
This study examined how different levels of implementation fidelity to critical elements of a hybrid Sport Education–Step Game Approach (SE-SGA) were associated with students’ game performance during volleyball teaching. Within a master's-level physical education teacher education program in Northern Portugal, nine preservice teachers (PSTs) and 189 10th-grade students across nine classes participated. Prior to school placement, the PSTs complete…
Validation of the Barriers to Sports Coaching Questionnaire for Women to the Portuguese Sports Contexts
Despite recent advances in women’s sport in Portugal, coaching remains a highly gendered domain in which women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions. Understanding the barriers that constrain women’s coaching careers is therefore essential for advancing gender equality in sport. This study aimed to validate the Barriers to Sports Coaching Questionnaire for Women (BSCQW) for the Portuguese sport context. Following a translation a…
The interplay between student-centred pedagogical strategies and preservice teachers’ epistemological development in physical education teacher education
Understanding how preservice teachers (PSTs) form their epistemological beliefs (EBs) is crucial for seeing how these beliefs influence teaching practices, particularly whether they encourage active learning or mere knowledge transmission. Building on this premise, this study aimed to examine the interplay between student-centred pedagogical strategies used in a 2-year physical education teacher education (PETE) programme and the development of P…
Could caring be the engine to better orchestrate? An interpretative case study of a world championship futsal coaching team
Cooperating teachers as facilitators of preservice teachers’ immersion in the educational community
In physical education teacher education (PETE), supporting preservice teachers’ (PSTs') immersion into school communities is critical to fostering their professional learning. However, this socially situated process, where PSTs must gain legitimacy, engage with institutional practices, and navigate professional identities, remains underexplored in the PETE literature. Drawing on social learning theories, this representative case study investigate…
The Social Motivational Orientations in Sport Scale (SMOSS)
Social goals are increasingly seen as motivational factors for youth sports participation and can strongly motivate participation and engagement, not only in structured sports contexts but also in physical education (PE), given the opportunities for social interaction with peers and the presence of skills like communication, cooperation, and competition within groups. The Social Motivational Orientations in Sport Scale (SMOSS) measures three type…
‘No One Is Left Behind?’
Equity and inclusion are requisites of high-quality Physical Education (PE). However, there is a substantial gap in understanding PE Teacher Education’s (PETE) effectiveness in preparing Preservice Teachers (PSTs) to implement equity-driven pedagogies. Moreover, focused on individual retrospective gameplay engagement rates (participation time), current research fails to provide a holistic perspective of the practical manifestations of equity and …
“It’s Good to Have a Voice”
While there is extensive evidence that student-centered pedagogies (SCPs) develop multidimensional (motor, cognitive, social) outcomes in students, the coalesced use of some of the core pedagogies of student-centered models (SCMs) can facilitate the achievement of more than one educational theme in the same intervention and may facilitate student engagement in more representative physical education (PE) experiences. In this study, students’ voice…
“The Game Changers”
Achieving gender equity and social inclusiveness remains a key priority in education. In the context of Physical Education (PE), fostering inclusive practices is critical to ensuring all students, regardless of gender, ability, or social status, can participate meaningfully. By examining the impact of three pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) equity-driven pedagogical practices on gender equity and student engagement in game-based activities, this study…
Portuguese Validation of the Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire (Yseq) for the Physical Education Context
Group cohesion is a prominent feature of sport involvement and small group work. Despite long-standing research interest and varied conceptualizations across fields, studies have primarily focused on sports. Research in educational contexts, particularly in physical education (PE), has been limited, even though PE offers an environment conducive to fostering diverse opportunities that promote group cohesion. This study sought to adapt and validat…
Pre-service teachers’ negotiation of meaning in their Physical Education Teacher Education programme
Background Research demonstrates the benefits of communities of practice (CoP) for teachers’ professional learning in Physical Education (PE). However, much less is known about how CoPs can be used to understand pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) professional learning in their Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programmes. Negotiation of meaning (NofM) is a crucial concept regarding learning inside of a CoP. Hence, understand how meaning is ne…
Tracking relations between development of tactical knowledge and tactical behaviour
Background Specific learning experiences are vital for athletes to continuously interact with developing knowledge of the performance environment, through the refined design of representative learning contexts (ecological paradigm), and appropriate didactical interventions (constructivist paradigm). Although there is a well-established relationship between tactical knowledge (TK) and tactical behaviours (TB), research has investigated the develop…
Diving into Real-World Practicum in Physical Education
Reflection is crucial for aspiring teachers, yet many pre-service teachers (PSTs) struggle to grasp its true meaning. This study explores how PSTs deconstruct their initial reflections and re-signify their understanding based on challenges encountered in real-world practicum settings. Additionally, it examines how the facilitator supported the PSTs’ reflections over time. Over the course of a year in the physical education teacher education conte…
The Head Coach as a Coach Developer
As teacher education, coach education is also a continuous and unfinished path by nature. This study explored how the head-coach (HC) of a world champion futsal team worked as a coach developer of their assistant-coaches (AC). Specifically, the main pedagogical strategies used, how they were applied, and impacted on the perceived professional development of their staff members were investigated. An interpretative case-study was adopted since it e…
Portuguese research on physical education and sport didactics—a critical discussion
This article presents a discussion of research in Physical Education and Sport Didactics in Portugal. It starts by situating it from an historical perspective, placing the 1980s as the beginning era, mainly based on the studies provided by the two first Physical Education higher education institutes of the country. The initial research, first based on master and doctoral dissertations, progressed to ongoing projects that have been disseminated in…
To Sample or to Specialise? Sport Participation Patterns of Youth Team Sport Male Players
This study characterised the sport participation patterns of 546 male youth team sport players. A retrospective questionnaire was used to identify the sport starting age (general sports and main sport) and the quantity and type of sports undertaken during the early years of development. A mixed-ANOVA and Chi-square tests were implemented. All participants started involvement in sports at the same age (~5 years) and participated in the same number…
Challenges in creating value in the pre-service teachers’ journey from learning to implementing student-centred approaches
The present study's purpose was to comprehend the internal dynamics of the social learning interactions inside a Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programme where pre-service teachers (PST) were learning and implementing student-centered approaches (SCA). Specifically, this article draws on the Value creation cycles framework to unveil the education development challenges faced by PSTs inside of their PETE Social Learning Space.The cont…
How can tailored questions foster reflection in preservice teachers? A year-long action research study
This year-long action research (AR) study, conducted in the context of a physical education teacher education (PETE) program in Portugal, explored how critical reflection among preservice teachers (PSTs) developed in response to tailored questioning by an external facilitator (EF). Participants were six PSTs and the first author, who assumed the dual role of EF and researcher. Four AR cycles, each involving a self-reflection analysis, interventio…
Flexible Training Planning Coupled with Flexible Assessment
According to the Quality Education and Gender Equality ambitions established at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, we aimed to test the feasibility of a flexible planning and assessment process, using ongoing, bidirectional feedback between planning and assessment. Eighteen players (11.5 ± 0.5 years of age) from a U13 female volleyball team were randomized into an experimental group (in which the plan could be changed daily) or a …
Effects of a two-stage physical education teacher education programme on preservice teachers’ specialised content knowledge and students’ game-play in a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game appro…
This study aimed to examine the effects of a physical education teacher education programme on (a) preservice teachers’ (PSTs') specialised content knowledge (SCK), and (b) the game-play development of their students, during a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game Approach (SE-SGA) unit. Three PSTs selected by convenience sampling (22–24 years old), their 60 eighth-grade students (three classes: 38 boys, 22 girls, M age = 13.3), and a mentori…
Challenges faced by preservice and novice teachers in implementing student-centred models
The purpose of this study was to unpack the challenges and constraints encountered by preservice and novice teachers when implementing student-centred models, and to describe the methodological characteristics of research conducted on this topic between 2004 and 2020. The procedure had a three-step approach: (a) searching for publications in electronic databases; (b) selecting studies based on inclusion criteria; and (c) refining this selection t…
Becoming an ethnographer in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture
The aim of this article is to uncover a transformative journey of a novice ethnographer, as she encountered the field of ethnographic research in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture. Particularly, through an analytical autoethnography, this study will present crucial experiences recognized as fieldwork dilemmas and encounter the strategies developed in order to address them.Data was generated through a field diary and a reflexive log f…
Does Sport Education promote equitable game-play participation? Effects of learning context and students’ sex and skill-level
This study conducted an innovative quantitative examination of the level of student game-play participation during two, consecutive and ‘naturalistically’ implemented, Sport Education (SE) seasons, while taking into account students’ sex and skill-level and the activity participation context (team practice/competition, handball/football). A total of 24 eighth-grade students (nine girls, 15 boys; M age 12.9±1.3) were affiliated in three teams of e…
Revisão Sistemática Sobre as Situações De Aprendizagem Do Treinador Brasileiro
O objetivo do estudo foi revisar sistematicamente a literatura sobre as fontes de aprendizagem dos treinadores brasileiros, a partir da categorização em situações mediadas, não mediadas e internas. As bases de dados ERIC, PubMed, Bireme, Scielo, Lilacs e Google Scholar foram acessadas e 11 estudos foram incluídos para análise. Verificou-se que com relação às situações mediadas, os treinadores brasileiros recorrem aos cursos de formação acadêmica …
The impact of a hybrid Sport Education–Invasion Games Competence Model soccer unit on students’ decision making, skill execution and overall game performance
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a hybrid Sport Education–Invasion Games Competence Model (SE-IGCM) unit application on students’ improvements in decision making, skill execution and overall game performance, during a soccer season. Twenty-six fifth-grade students from a Portuguese public elementary school participated in a 22-lesson season, in which pre-test, post-test and retention test measures were analyzed through the i…
Towards a more equitable and inclusive learning environment in Sport Education
This study was designed to examine and intervene into student behaviours to promote a democratic, inclusive and participatory focus within Sport Education. To achieve an increased understanding of and changes within student behaviours, a collaborative participatory action research methodology was applied to provide voice to students as agents of change. The research progressed throughout an entire school year and was cast in two stages. The first…
Becoming an ethnographer in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture
The aim of this article is to uncover a transformative journey of a novice ethnographer, as she encountered the field of ethnographic research in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture. Particularly, through an analytical autoethnography, this study will present crucial experiences recognized as fieldwork dilemmas and encounter the strategies developed in order to address them.Data was generated through a field diary and a reflexive log f…
Latent learning in the work place
The aim of this study was to investigate the work-based internship experiences of eight student-coaches. This was particularly in terms of what precisely such coaches learned within the practical context, and how they engaged with unexpected situational events. The methods employed within the project included focus group interviews and participant observation. In particular, the student-coaches were both interviewed and observed over the course o…
Scaffolding student–coaches’ instructional leadership toward student-centred peer interactions
This study was the first in sport education to provide a yearlong, in-depth examination of the scaffolding processes used by a teacher during student participation in four consecutive seasons. Given the peer teaching format of the learning activities and curriculum ownership allocated to students, a focus was placed on the preparation of the students in the role of team coaches to conduct instruction in student-centred interactions (active engage…
Student game-play performance in invasion games following three consecutive hybrid Sport Education seasons
This study was the first to examine game performance according to the tactical structures of invasion games throughout three consecutive model-based units. Twenty-six seventh grade students participated in three Sport Education seasons (basketball, handball, and football) taught through the tactical framework Invasion Games Competence model. Team membership remained the same throughout the three seasons and pre- and post-test game-play of three-a…
The long-term development of volleyball game play performance using Sport Education and the Step-Game-Approach model
The purpose of this study was to analyse 18 Portuguese high school students’ game play performance improvements across three hybrid Sport Education-Step-Game-Approach volleyball seasons. Students’ play performance at the entry and exit points of each season was evaluated using the Game Performance Assessment Instrument during 2 vs2 games. A series of hierarchical linear models was then constructed in order to quantify the impact of gender, skill …
Students’ game performance improvements during a hybrid sport education–step-game-approach volleyball unit
The purpose of this study was to examine a hybrid combination of sport education and the step-game-approach (SGA) on students’ gameplay performance in volleyball, taking into account their sex and skill-level. Seventeen seventh-grade students (seven girls, 10 boys, average age 11.8) participated in a 25-lesson volleyball season, in which the structural features followed those of sport education and the specific content followed the didactical fra…
A investigação sobre os modelos de ensino dos jogos desportivos
O objectivo deste artigo é o de fazer uma revisão da literatura relativa aos dois modelos mais marcantes na actualidade no que respeita ao ensino dos jogos desportivos, o Teaching Games for Understanding e o
Challenges in creating value in the pre-service teachers’ journey from learning to implementing student-centred approaches
The present study's purpose was to comprehend the internal dynamics of the social learning interactions inside a Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programme where pre-service teachers (PST) were learning and implementing student-centered approaches (SCA). Specifically, this article draws on the Value creation cycles framework to unveil the education development challenges faced by PSTs inside of their PETE Social Learning Space.The cont…
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A investigação sobre os modelos de ensino dos jogos desportivos
O objectivo deste artigo é o de fazer uma revisão da literatura relativa aos dois modelos mais marcantes na actualidade no que respeita ao ensino dos jogos desportivos, o Teaching Games for Understanding e o
The impact of a hybrid Sport Education–Invasion Games Competence Model soccer unit on students’ decision making, skill execution and overall game performance
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a hybrid Sport Education–Invasion Games Competence Model (SE-IGCM) unit application on students’ improvements in decision making, skill execution and overall game performance, during a soccer season. Twenty-six fifth-grade students from a Portuguese public elementary school participated in a 22-lesson season, in which pre-test, post-test and retention test measures were analyzed through the i…
A Instrução Do Professor Na Apresentação De Tarefas No Ensino Da Ginástica Artística
O estudo objetivou caracterizar a instrução na apresentação das tarefas na Ginástica Artística utilizando três estratégias instrucionais Instrução Direta, Ensino aos Pares, Aprendizagem Cooperativa. Dados coletados através de filmagem das aulas com som e imagem. Recorreu-se a análise observatória validados. Os tipos de prática foram informação, refinamento, extensão e aplicação. As categorias aplicadas basearam-se na explicitação da instrução e t…
The promise and problems of video diaries
The purpose of this paper was to further explore the use of video diaries as a research method. Specifically, the principal objective was to detail and deconstruct the use of video diaries in relation to some of the claims made on their behalf, particularly those related to participant voice, empowerment and spontaneity. The paper is presented through the illustration of a longitudinal case study into undergraduate sports coaching students’ learn…
Towards a more equitable and inclusive learning environment in Sport Education
This study was designed to examine and intervene into student behaviours to promote a democratic, inclusive and participatory focus within Sport Education. To achieve an increased understanding of and changes within student behaviours, a collaborative participatory action research methodology was applied to provide voice to students as agents of change. The research progressed throughout an entire school year and was cast in two stages. The first…
Students’ game performance improvements during a hybrid sport education–step-game-approach volleyball unit
The purpose of this study was to examine a hybrid combination of sport education and the step-game-approach (SGA) on students’ gameplay performance in volleyball, taking into account their sex and skill-level. Seventeen seventh-grade students (seven girls, 10 boys, average age 11.8) participated in a 25-lesson volleyball season, in which the structural features followed those of sport education and the specific content followed the didactical fra…
Latent learning in the work place
The aim of this study was to investigate the work-based internship experiences of eight student-coaches. This was particularly in terms of what precisely such coaches learned within the practical context, and how they engaged with unexpected situational events. The methods employed within the project included focus group interviews and participant observation. In particular, the student-coaches were both interviewed and observed over the course o…
Scaffolding student–coaches’ instructional leadership toward student-centred peer interactions
This study was the first in sport education to provide a yearlong, in-depth examination of the scaffolding processes used by a teacher during student participation in four consecutive seasons. Given the peer teaching format of the learning activities and curriculum ownership allocated to students, a focus was placed on the preparation of the students in the role of team coaches to conduct instruction in student-centred interactions (active engage…
The long-term development of volleyball game play performance using Sport Education and the Step-Game-Approach model
The purpose of this study was to analyse 18 Portuguese high school students’ game play performance improvements across three hybrid Sport Education-Step-Game-Approach volleyball seasons. Students’ play performance at the entry and exit points of each season was evaluated using the Game Performance Assessment Instrument during 2 vs2 games. A series of hierarchical linear models was then constructed in order to quantify the impact of gender, skill …
Museus
Texto apresentado durante o Workshop Modernismos: conceitos - contextos - circulação, organizado pela Academia Transregional do Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, o Instituto Goethe em São Paulo, a UNIFESP e o MAC USP, realizado na Vila Itororó, em São Paulo, no dia 23 de Julho de 2016. Pretendia trazer ao debate daquele encontro, uma perspectiva da corrente instrumentalização dos discursos sobre a arte e a produção artística, assim co…
Student game-play performance in invasion games following three consecutive hybrid Sport Education seasons
This study was the first to examine game performance according to the tactical structures of invasion games throughout three consecutive model-based units. Twenty-six seventh grade students participated in three Sport Education seasons (basketball, handball, and football) taught through the tactical framework Invasion Games Competence model. Team membership remained the same throughout the three seasons and pre- and post-test game-play of three-a…
Revisão Sistemática Sobre as Situações De Aprendizagem Do Treinador Brasileiro
O objetivo do estudo foi revisar sistematicamente a literatura sobre as fontes de aprendizagem dos treinadores brasileiros, a partir da categorização em situações mediadas, não mediadas e internas. As bases de dados ERIC, PubMed, Bireme, Scielo, Lilacs e Google Scholar foram acessadas e 11 estudos foram incluídos para análise. Verificou-se que com relação às situações mediadas, os treinadores brasileiros recorrem aos cursos de formação acadêmica …
Challenges faced by preservice and novice teachers in implementing student-centred models
The purpose of this study was to unpack the challenges and constraints encountered by preservice and novice teachers when implementing student-centred models, and to describe the methodological characteristics of research conducted on this topic between 2004 and 2020. The procedure had a three-step approach: (a) searching for publications in electronic databases; (b) selecting studies based on inclusion criteria; and (c) refining this selection t…
Becoming an ethnographer in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture
The aim of this article is to uncover a transformative journey of a novice ethnographer, as she encountered the field of ethnographic research in a Physical Education Teacher Education culture. Particularly, through an analytical autoethnography, this study will present crucial experiences recognized as fieldwork dilemmas and encounter the strategies developed in order to address them.Data was generated through a field diary and a reflexive log f…
Does Sport Education promote equitable game-play participation? Effects of learning context and students’ sex and skill-level
This study conducted an innovative quantitative examination of the level of student game-play participation during two, consecutive and ‘naturalistically’ implemented, Sport Education (SE) seasons, while taking into account students’ sex and skill-level and the activity participation context (team practice/competition, handball/football). A total of 24 eighth-grade students (nine girls, 15 boys; M age 12.9±1.3) were affiliated in three teams of e…
Flexible Training Planning Coupled with Flexible Assessment
According to the Quality Education and Gender Equality ambitions established at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals, we aimed to test the feasibility of a flexible planning and assessment process, using ongoing, bidirectional feedback between planning and assessment. Eighteen players (11.5 ± 0.5 years of age) from a U13 female volleyball team were randomized into an experimental group (in which the plan could be changed daily) or a …
Effects of a two-stage physical education teacher education programme on preservice teachers’ specialised content knowledge and students’ game-play in a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game appro…
This study aimed to examine the effects of a physical education teacher education programme on (a) preservice teachers’ (PSTs') specialised content knowledge (SCK), and (b) the game-play development of their students, during a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game Approach (SE-SGA) unit. Three PSTs selected by convenience sampling (22–24 years old), their 60 eighth-grade students (three classes: 38 boys, 22 girls, M age = 13.3), and a mentori…
Diving into Real-World Practicum in Physical Education
Reflection is crucial for aspiring teachers, yet many pre-service teachers (PSTs) struggle to grasp its true meaning. This study explores how PSTs deconstruct their initial reflections and re-signify their understanding based on challenges encountered in real-world practicum settings. Additionally, it examines how the facilitator supported the PSTs’ reflections over time. Over the course of a year in the physical education teacher education conte…
The Head Coach as a Coach Developer
As teacher education, coach education is also a continuous and unfinished path by nature. This study explored how the head-coach (HC) of a world champion futsal team worked as a coach developer of their assistant-coaches (AC). Specifically, the main pedagogical strategies used, how they were applied, and impacted on the perceived professional development of their staff members were investigated. An interpretative case-study was adopted since it e…
Portuguese research on physical education and sport didactics—a critical discussion
This article presents a discussion of research in Physical Education and Sport Didactics in Portugal. It starts by situating it from an historical perspective, placing the 1980s as the beginning era, mainly based on the studies provided by the two first Physical Education higher education institutes of the country. The initial research, first based on master and doctoral dissertations, progressed to ongoing projects that have been disseminated in…
To Sample or to Specialise? Sport Participation Patterns of Youth Team Sport Male Players
This study characterised the sport participation patterns of 546 male youth team sport players. A retrospective questionnaire was used to identify the sport starting age (general sports and main sport) and the quantity and type of sports undertaken during the early years of development. A mixed-ANOVA and Chi-square tests were implemented. All participants started involvement in sports at the same age (~5 years) and participated in the same number…
Challenges in creating value in the pre-service teachers’ journey from learning to implementing student-centred approaches
The present study's purpose was to comprehend the internal dynamics of the social learning interactions inside a Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programme where pre-service teachers (PST) were learning and implementing student-centered approaches (SCA). Specifically, this article draws on the Value creation cycles framework to unveil the education development challenges faced by PSTs inside of their PETE Social Learning Space.The cont…
How can tailored questions foster reflection in preservice teachers? A year-long action research study
This year-long action research (AR) study, conducted in the context of a physical education teacher education (PETE) program in Portugal, explored how critical reflection among preservice teachers (PSTs) developed in response to tailored questioning by an external facilitator (EF). Participants were six PSTs and the first author, who assumed the dual role of EF and researcher. Four AR cycles, each involving a self-reflection analysis, interventio…
The Social Motivational Orientations in Sport Scale (SMOSS)
Social goals are increasingly seen as motivational factors for youth sports participation and can strongly motivate participation and engagement, not only in structured sports contexts but also in physical education (PE), given the opportunities for social interaction with peers and the presence of skills like communication, cooperation, and competition within groups. The Social Motivational Orientations in Sport Scale (SMOSS) measures three type…
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