Por Roberto Izquierdo Herrera,
estudiante de Diseño curricular de la EF
estudiante de Diseño curricular de la EF
Hi everybody!
Following the advice published at the blog, I went to the conference given by David Kirk at the beginning of the Master-s semestre. Of course, he spoke in English, his mother tongue, thus I'm going to resume my impressions in his language. I was specially surprised about the lecture turning over a basic topic: the language-dependence.
Kirk has been doing research on the trends of PE (physical education) in Europe for a long time. As we can learn through the numerous questions answered on the blog, PE.refers to a specific topic for us. That topic is close to the idea of PE in Europe, which Kirk's work was trying to define more clearly. I'm going shortly tell you the method he followed in order to do it.
He focused on four different reviews; all of them published in English. Three in Europe and one in the UUEE. Those were European Physical Education Review (EPER), Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP), European Journal of Physical Education (EJPE) and Sport, Education and Society (SE&S). He chose these ones because they are the most relevant ones within all the academic publication about PE.
The use of English as the main language causes that most of the publishers in Europe are from the United Kingdom. This means that all the research done in Europe which has not been translated into English will probably never be read abroad. Kirk found that there was very poor investigation in our field (it was only from and for English speaking countries). This made him think, and he discovered that most of the research in Europe was not being published in English, therefore turning into a big problem: the world will never read it.
Other countries were Wales (9); Finland (8); Germany (6); Cyprus (5); Denmark (4); Netherlands (2); Portugal (2); Estonia (2); Russia (3); Turkey (2); Slovenia (1); Malta (1); Czech R (1); Switzerland (1)
The above table (in Kirk, 2010b) hows the amount of papers published by Spanish writers in worldwide reviews. Only 11 while English researchers published 156!
Guys, if we do not learn English, we will not be able to tell the others about our discoveries nor learn about their ones. GO FOR IT!
References:Kirk, D. (2010a). Situación actual y tendencias futuras de la investigación sobre la EF en Europa: algunas cuestiones cruciales que explican por qué la investigación es importante. In 5th International Congress and XXVI National Conference of the INEFC, University of Barcelona, Spain, 4-6 February 2010.Kirk, D. (2010b). Why research matters: Current status and future trends in physical education pedagogy. Movimento, v. 16, n. 02, p. 11¬43.
He focused on four different reviews; all of them published in English. Three in Europe and one in the UUEE. Those were European Physical Education Review (EPER), Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP), European Journal of Physical Education (EJPE) and Sport, Education and Society (SE&S). He chose these ones because they are the most relevant ones within all the academic publication about PE.
The use of English as the main language causes that most of the publishers in Europe are from the United Kingdom. This means that all the research done in Europe which has not been translated into English will probably never be read abroad. Kirk found that there was very poor investigation in our field (it was only from and for English speaking countries). This made him think, and he discovered that most of the research in Europe was not being published in English, therefore turning into a big problem: the world will never read it.
Other countries were Wales (9); Finland (8); Germany (6); Cyprus (5); Denmark (4); Netherlands (2); Portugal (2); Estonia (2); Russia (3); Turkey (2); Slovenia (1); Malta (1); Czech R (1); Switzerland (1)
Movimento, Porto Alegre, v. 16, n. 02, p. 11¬43, abril/junho de 2010
The above table (in Kirk, 2010b) hows the amount of papers published by Spanish writers in worldwide reviews. Only 11 while English researchers published 156!
Guys, if we do not learn English, we will not be able to tell the others about our discoveries nor learn about their ones. GO FOR IT!
References:Kirk, D. (2010a). Situación actual y tendencias futuras de la investigación sobre la EF en Europa: algunas cuestiones cruciales que explican por qué la investigación es importante. In 5th International Congress and XXVI National Conference of the INEFC, University of Barcelona, Spain, 4-6 February 2010.Kirk, D. (2010b). Why research matters: Current status and future trends in physical education pedagogy. Movimento, v. 16, n. 02, p. 11¬43.
