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Adaptive Teaching and the Interactional Order of Classrooms Open
Responding to the need for fine-grained investigation of what adaptive teaching entails, this article reports on 88 qualitative lesson observations with highly competent teachers. The findings illustrate how, amidst the unpredictable flow …
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The purpose of primary physical education: The views of teacher educators Open
This paper reports on the first phase of a longitudinal project investigating the perceived purposes that different stakeholders have for primary physical education (PE). In the study, the views of 19 teacher educators from seven countries…
Becoming physical education: the ontological shift to complexity Open
In this paper, we present the view that an ontological shift to complexity thinking will be significant in the future of physical education (PE). Complexity thinking not only moves PE beyond long dominant modernist approaches but also offe…
Embracing complex adaptive practice: the potential of lesson study Open
The current neoliberal political climate in education has narrowed the focus of teachers’ professional development and reduced their work in the classroom to a simple and predictable process. In this article, we challenge this view by depl…
The personal visions of physical education student teachers: putting the education at the heart of physical education Open
With neo‐liberal policies dominating across the world, the marketisation and outsourcing of physical education is now common. Within this context, we argue the need for a ‘shifting perspectives’ agenda that will firmly establish the educat…
The potential of Lesson Study in primary physical education: Messages from a longitudinal study in Japan Open
This paper presents the view that Lesson Study has the potential to make a significant contribution to future developments in primary physical education. To set the paper in context, we explore the concerns that have long been voiced about…
A major review of stakeholder perspectives on the purposes of primary physical education Open
While there may be some broad agreement about the purposes of primary physical education, there is dramatic variance in how these purposes are prioritised and enacted. Primary physical education consequently focusses on multiple, often com…
The complexity of young children's physical education Open
This paper is based on the belief that young children’s physical education is a much more complex phenomenon than is often portrayed in the literature. Using key principles from complexity thinking, the paper discusses how, as children gro…
From silos to crossing borders in physical education Open
Physical education has become more than a superficial exposure to a range of motor skills and movement challenges through the emergence of a myriad of educationally-focused initiatives, models and theoretical approaches. Such proliferation…
Understanding teachers as complex professional learners Open
This article explores how ideas from complexity and ecological thinking have the potential to act as a conceptual lens to help us better understand, design and support teachers’ long-term professional learning. Using primary physical educa…
Primary physical education Open
In recent years, primary physical education has received increased attention across a range of political, professional and academic contexts. Much of this attention has largely been due to a growing perception that formative physical educa…
Integrating complexity thinking with teacher education practices: a collective yet unpredictable endeavour in physical education? Open
While complexity thinking features increasingly in the education and physical education literature, there remains a paucity of research presenting evidence of the influence that complexity principles have on learning. We further advocate t…
The primary physical education curriculum process: more complex that you might think!! Open
In this paper, we present the curriculum development process as a complex, iterative and integrated phenomenon. Building on the early work of Stenhouse (1975), we position the teacher at the heart of this process and extend his ideas by ex…
Understanding professional issues in physical education - a Scottish insight Open
Key to the effective enactment of policy and high quality learning and teaching in schools is a contemporary understanding of teachers’ beliefs, and an awareness of the professional issues which are particularly important to them. Despite …
Moving primary physical education forward: start at the beginning Open
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal Title on publication date, available online: doi 10.1080/03004279.2016.1155072