Major Themes in Physical Education Revisited Volume I: The Nature and Purposes of Physical Education ( ...
If you’re reading this you are doing so on the third iteration of the PEPRN blog. I’ve been working hard...
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The aim of this website is to bring together physical education teachers, coaches, physical activity leaders, volunteers and university practitioners from around the world to talk about practice, young peoples’ experiences of physical activity, and research.
Dr Ash Casey is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Loughborough University. His research focuses on Models-Based Practice, teacher learning/research and the use of new technologies in learning. Ash in an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Routledge) and is the author, co-author or editor of four Routledge books and publishes regularly in leading education research journals. He is active on social media where he writes and blogs about Models-Based Practice, teacher learning and new technologies.
We are always interested in ideas and suggestions from people so please get in touch
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- Students’ rush in where teachers fear to tread: Sport Education as student-centred approach
- “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”: Might multi-activity programmes be a good thing?
- Why isn't PE taken seriously by girls when physical activity is on the rise?
- Being ‘normal’ in PE: Unrealistic measures of ability for disabled students
- I’m Sorry. I’m Sorry. I’m Sorry. But is sorry enough?
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- Knowing about something is not the same as doing it: Girls apparent engagement and disengagement in PE
- The ends and not the means of PE: Who decides which is important?
- Life is learnt through what ‘I can’ do rather than just what I think
- Tinkering around the edges is not enough: gender sensitive physical activity programmes
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- “Mirror, Mirror on the wall who is the slimmest of them all?”
- Clean water, fresh food, a roof over your head, a job, and physical activity opportunities: The right to be healthy should include all the basics...shouldn't it?
- Physical capital is worth more than the paper it’s written on and yet are we even aware of it?
- Health, Physical Activity and Physical Education: One way of squaring the circle
- Challenges and pressing agendas: Thinking more about what we need to do and less about what we like to do
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- Changing the Sun: themes rather than activities as the centre of children’s learning
- “A rose by any other name”: Problems of identity in physical education
- Barking up the wrong tree: Games and Sports as the reasons why we work
- Imitation as the highest form of flattery, until something better comes along
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- “PE is something to get through”: If it ain’t broke then why do so many kids not like it?
- “It’s behind you!”: Looking forwards as an alternative future for physical education
- “It’s just not Cricket, old boy”: the place of school in preparing compliant young people
- When is PE not PE? When it’s School Sport
- The Ghost of Physical Education Past
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- If it’s said enough times does it make it true?: The need for critical pedagogy and personal inquiry around the obesity epidemic.
- A 21st century education: ‘New’ teachers and critical pedagogy for the digital age
- The wrong horse for the life course?: Offerings in physical education aren’t representative of lifelong activities
- Class dismissed! Working in a classless society where class is an invisible determinant of success
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- A beginner's/teacher's guide to developing a virtual identity or How I learned to love my avatar (by Brendan Jones)
- The stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick insect got caught on a sticky bun
- Teacher-as-researcher (Guest Blog)
- How has physical education changed?
- Finding the right forum for talking with teachers
- Ten things I learnt this year...
- One-in-ten schools 'failing'
- How to plan a unit of work in cooperative learning?
- The teacher them self
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- Reflections on Physical Literacy
- What is the best conference you have attended or CPD you have been part of? and why?
- Play Time
- Expected behaviour and practice?
- Teachers and reserachers as collaborators: School and university collaboration
- Research summary – Using video analysis in physical education
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