RESEARCH

EDUCATION

Vision

Our vision is for more equitable, diverse and inclusive physical education experiences for children and young people, and for those learning to become, or continuing to develop as, physical education teachers.

We see teacher education and school physical education as interconnected spaces for change. Improving educational experiences requires sustained collaboration, opportunities to question established practices and a willingness to learn across institutional and national boundaries.

Drawing on calls for the collaborative redesign of physical education and teacher education (MacPhail & Lawson, 2020), our work emphasises:

  • International collaboration that enables shared inquiry, professional learning and the exchange of ideas across contexts.
  • Sustained partnerships between teacher education programmes and schools.
  • Collaborative teams that generate knowledge through research and pedagogical development.

We also recognise the need to question dominant assumptions about teaching, learning and participation. Our collective action approach addresses the need for an innovative conceptualisation and more democratic structure and epistemology of physical education 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.  

This vision connects the work of the PhysEd-Academy project and EquiPETE, while allowing each project to contribute through its own questions, partnerships, and activities.

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Physical Education can be part of the solution HYSICAL EDUCATION CAN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION 81% of children and young people are not physically active enough – creating significant health and soc (2)
Physical Education can be part of the solution HYSICAL EDUCATION CAN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION 81% of children and young people are not physically active enough – creating significant health and soc (3)
Physical Education can be part of the solution HYSICAL EDUCATION CAN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION 81% of children and young people are not physically active enough – creating significant health and soc (4)
Physical Education can be part of the solution HYSICAL EDUCATION CAN BE PART OF THE SOLUTION 81% of children and young people are not physically active enough – creating significant health and soc

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