ABSTRACT
This chapter is about environmental sustainability and how its influence on schools and education has grown stronger. Environmental sustainability has been an important debate in schools in recent times. However, the development in physical education has not been as fast as in other subjects and there are still research gaps in the field. This chapter explores the relationship between how environmental sustainability is presented in national curricula for physical education and how it is perceived by physical education teachers. An explanatory sequential approach, using both quantitative and qualitative data, is related to Bernstein's concept of classification. This chapter contributes to the discussion of how teachers enact their governing school documents when it comes to environmental sustainability in physical education. The results of this study show that environmental sustainability has the potential to gain a stronger classification in physical education in the future. For example, several teachers show an awareness of environmental issues and a willingness to include them in their physical education teaching.
