There has been much criticism of how teachers are prepared to teach and physical education has not been immune from this criticism . Despite numerous efforts to improve the content and focus of teacher education programmes there is still a paucity of programme evaluation research on the effcacy of these teacher education programmes (Metzler & Tjeerdsma, 1998
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