The purpose of this study is to explore how physical education (PE) teachers
make sense of this formal curriculum goal and try to operationalize it. PE teachers tend
not to be formally trained in didactics of social and moral development. In addition, the
PE curriculum gives few guidelines that define social and moral development or how to
accomplish this (if at all) but does require them to integrate this development into their
teaching. We therefore used a social constructivist perspective with an emphasis on
sense making to situate the study.