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15 Feb 19
“PE is something to get through”: If it ain’t broke then why do so many kids not like it?
Volume 1: The Nature and Purposes of Physical Education In the previous blog I explored tthe Body Curriculum pr...
08 Feb 19
Ethnic Minority Bodies in a White World
In the previous blog I explored the idea that we need to look forwards at what physical education, indeed education,...
01 Feb 19
“It’s behind you!”: Looking forwards as an alternative future for physical education
Volume 1: The Nature and Purposes of Physical Education Original published 22nd March 2013 In the previous...
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2019
February
“PE is something to get through”: If it ain’t broke then why do so many kids not like it?
Ethnic Minority Bodies in a White World
“It’s behind you!”: Looking forwards as an alternative future for physical education
January
Communicating aims and learning goals in 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 Concept of Physical Literacy
2018
December
The Ghost of Physical Education Past
What do we really know?
If it’s said enough times does it make it true?
November
Healthying physical education
A 21st century education: ‘New’ teachers and critical pedagogy for the digital age
Youth Sport and Positive Youth Development
The wrong horse for the life course?: Offerings in physical education aren’t representative of lifelong activities
Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
October
Class dismissed! Working in a classless society where class is an invisible determinant of success
Hide and seek: teachers alone cannot plan for what students’ learn at school
The role of the teacher in moral education
Meaningful Experiences in Physical Education and Youth Sport
September
Movement is as much a part of physical education as its analysis
Teachers as policy actors
The importance of what is said and what is done
PEPRN Unlocked
August
Overview of Practitioner Research
Aligning Beliefs and Actions
July
Ethical Responsibility
Acknowledging Bias
June
Using Self-Study of Practice
Using Autoethnography
May
Using Narrative Inquiry
Using Action Research
April
Self-Study of Practice
Autoethnography
March
Narrative Inquiry
Action Research
February
Taking practitioner research into the field
The Next PEPRN blog Series
January
Next
When is a model a model?
2017
December
Model Fidelity
November
Grey Areas
One becomes Two
October
From tiny acorns
First steps
September
Where to start? Finding a pedagogical place for a pedagogical model
Direct Instruction is a model too
Step away from the multi-activity curriculum
August
A New Blog Series: Forthcoming
2016
February
Participation that doesn’t cost the Earth
Self-directed activity
January
Actively Engaged Learning Community
Sink or Swim together
2015
October
Time to breathe
Taking Tactical Creativity into Your Practice
Teaching Tactical Creativity
September
Assessing Tactical Creativity
The six Ds of Tactical Creativity
Teaching Tactical Creativity
Thinking differently not just well
Being divergent
August
Creating Creativity-Supporting Environments
July
Walking the Talk
The Sound of Silence
Staffroom Micropolitics
Creating spaces of possibility not expectation
June
Hiding in plain ‘site’…
And the Oscar goes to…
Keeping up appearances
Significant dimensions of workplace learning
Searching and re-searching the stories of our field
May
What is professional, workplace learning?
Learning to be a teacher
Hopes and Olympic dreams
Run Marianne, Run
April
The boy who ‘used to’
Fitting in when you don’t know the ‘rules’
Finding value in running…again
March
Running before she can walk…
Balancing the drive to well with ‘down time’
Reformulating the acceptable stories about women and sport
“I learn about things I can’t use in my life”
February
This girl can...well could
All for one…
Who decides what ‘at risk’ means?
Sexual harassment and cyber bullying
January
Whose needs are being served?
Making educational decisions based on preconceptions
Challenges on the inside and outside
Meeting the needs of all learners
2014
December
Kate - recognising the problem
Sophie – active but not physically
Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again
November
Change as a ‘belt and braces’ endeavour
Inferences and conclusions
Believing doesn’t make it real
Evidence of change or developing the evidence base.
October
The impact of colonialism
A sport education
Why #physed?
Degrees of expertise
If-then-do
September
Dead Dogs
Getting purpose and process right
Purposeful silence and reflection
Game On (for everyone)
August
Reinventing the wheel is a good thing
“Start of level five…beep, beep, beeeeeeeep”
Understanding the game in new terms
“I Can’t Dance” as the expected response
July
Chocolate teapots
Creating authentic learning experiences
Learning to teach again and again
Teaching ‘the unteachables’
June
Turning games teaching inside out
Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes – Not!
It’s broke: fix it
Lost in articulation
May
Appearances can be deceiving
Technically that was a good lesson but socially…
Needs must…
Eminently replaceable?
Don’t be an idiotés
April
Let’s talk about pedagogy
The assumptions we make…and defend
What am I in this to achieve and for whom?
I gotta feeling
March
Helping the village to raise each child
May the force(s) be with you
When does the end justify the means?
Knowing the difference between changeable and unchangeable practices
February
Are we still on the outside looking in?
Do ‘we’ have a pack mentality?
Playing the student game
“What do you see? Is it the same as me? I assume it is…”
January
“Don't mention the war”: Gender as an acceptable silence in PE
I already believe…so good luck changing my mind
Round and round the merry-go-round
Be careful what you ask for – you might keep getting it.
Is professional development as useful as more ice is to the Inuit?
2013
December
2013 Blog Index
Girls and Boys and hidden messages
Learning from our PAL’s.
Is student autonomy a precursor to lifelong physical activity?
November
Choices in teaching and learning
Why Rip wouldn't be winkled if he was a PE teacher
‘Walking the talk’ around the nature and purpose of PE
Including rather than ‘fitting in’ students with Special Educational Needs
The obvious one of the pass in the game
October
Experiential Learning as a community experience
I am the king of the jungle and you’re the dirty rascal
“I feel pretty, oh so pretty…” but don’t talk to the ugly sister
September
Take care of the basics and the rest will start to look after itself
Why teaching and learning is far more complex than a “process-product” equation.
Q: “What did you learn in PE today?” A: “how to stand in a queue.”
Get ‘em young and keep ‘em keen
August
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?
July
Ability is a fixed concept, but shouldn’t it be fluid?
Tipping the balance: Should PE have a fair handicapping system?
June
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
May
“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
April
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
2012
December
You're only as a good as your last game...
October
Is ‘once upon a time’ still a viable plotline?: storytelling as pedagogues
September
Physical Literacy in the Secondary School
May
The Chicken or the Egg? Changing expectations in order to change practice in schools
The Chicken or the Egg? Changing expectations in order to change practice in schools
April
Opening lines of communication in physical education
January
Physical Literacy
2011
December
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
November
In the name of Physical Education
September
When did fun become a four-letter word?
Students and teacher responses to a unit of student-designed games.
August
The first time
How do you know…?
July
The global challenges facing physical education...
June
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
May
Talking research
March
The question
February
The differing faces of education
January
Teacher as researcher and the future survival of physical education
2010
December
An American in Paris
Primeval me
A response to Ashley's Blog about Blogging
November
Reflection: from 'paper and pen' blogging to the web
What has been said about Models-based practice?
Challenges and Opportunities of using Game-Centered approaches to teaching, coaching and learning
October
Working with alternatives pedagogies that work
The Idea of Professional Development and its discontents
Professional Development: Needs for a new professional role
September
Are alternative pedagogies good for your teaching?
Schools and healthy lifestyles
Practitioners researching their own practices
Self-determination theory - helping students to become autonomously motivated in physical education
August
Physical Education: re-discovering pedagogy
“Red door and back!” : Bad Habits in Physical Education
Back to basics?
July
Filling a gap (or just another brick in the wall)
Research into the use of technology in Physical Education
Being a Piano Player
Student-designed games
June
New ways to the problem of living
The hardest part...
The Appliance of Science
Is it time for an anti-ablest pedagogy?
May
Teaching Games for Understanding
Does Continued Professional Development do anything?
Birth of the un-modern school?
Creating a virtual staffroom
I'm a teacher... get me into here!
The expertise of the practitioner
April
Physical Education is...?
Cooperation rather than just collaboration
Action Research for the Reflective Teacher
Making Cooperation part of your teaching
The action research cycle
Finding a starting point for teachers-as-researchers