You're only as a good as your last game...

Monday, 31 December 2012

As a sportsman this is something that I heard all the time...especially as a young player. In the world of social media that claims seems as important (if not more so). In working in a  world that measures innovation in weeks and months rather than years and decades, and where today's news i... read more...

Is ‘once upon a time’ still a viable plotline?: storytelling as pedagogues

Saturday, 06 October 2012

As I sit to write - be it this blog, a lesson plan, a presentation or a research paper - I like to think of the story I’m trying to tell. Good stories enthrall me. They captured my imagination and stay with me for a long time. Isn’t this what we are aspiring to in our tea... read more...

Physical Literacy in the Secondary School

Friday, 14 September 2012

By Margaret Whitehead

I am pleased to report that there are five teachers who are actively looking at ways of engaging learners in physical education with the intention of fostering physical literacy.

Claire Bannon has conducted a very useful investigation into motivating those wh... read more...

The Chicken or the Egg? Changing expectations in order to change practice in schools

Friday, 18 May 2012

Practice are not created and developed by individual teachers but is subject to expectation and cultural histories. The ‘expectations’ around teaching do much to create stereotypes and conformity around how to teach and how to act in ... read more...

The Chicken or the Egg? Changing expectations in order to change practice in schools

Friday, 18 May 2012

Practice are not created and developed by individual teachers but is subject to expectation and cultural histories. The ‘expectations’ around teaching do much to create stereotypes and conformity around how to teach and how to act in ... read more...

Opening lines of communication in physical education

Saturday, 14 April 2012

On the twenty-year anniversary of the scholar lecture at the Physical Education Special Interest Group (SIG) invisible college (at the American Education Research Association (AERA) special meeting) four former scholars – Steve Silverman, Tom McKenzie, Mary O’Sullivan and David Kirk &... read more...

Physical Literacy

Thursday, 19 January 2012

I am delighted to say that Professor Margaret Whitehead has joined PEPRN and has created a physical literacy discussion board as one of the key themes on PEPRN. She has also agreed to write a short blog which can be read below. So welcome Margaret and the Physical Literacy dicusssions and I look ... read more...