In line with MacPhail and Lawson (2020), we acknowledge the need for a collaborative redesign for physical education in schools and teacher education programs for the twenty-first century. To this end, PhysEd-Academy brings together teacher educators and teachers from across Europe to engage in a collective action project (MacPhail & Lawson, 2020), advocating for a move away from national policy silos to reinvigorate the field of PE and lead to improved, equitable outcomes for children and youth, and both novice and veteran teachers. Undertaking such a collective action project necessitate three key elements:
PhysEd-Academy represents this type of collective action project – one that addresses the need for an innovative conceptualization and more democratic structure and epistemology of PE teaching and teacher education (Casey & Larsson, 2018) which disrupts the dominant and traditional conceptualizations of the processes of teaching and teacher education, offering a vision for a more inclusive and relevant physical education for twenty-first century learners.
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