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Biesta, Gert; Heugh, Kathleen; Cervinkova, Hana; Rasinski, Lotar; Osborne, Sam; Forde, Deirdre; Wrench, Alison; Carter, Jenni; Säfström, Carl Anders; Soong, Hannah; O'Keeffe, Suzanne; Paige, Kathryn; Rigney, Lester-Irabinna; O'Toole, Leah; Hattam, Robert; Peters, Michael A.; Tesar, Marek – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
Public education is not just a way to organise and fund education. It is also the expression of a particular ideal about education and of a particular way to conceive of the relationship between education and society. The ideal of public education sees education as an important dimension of the common good and as an important institution in…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Philosophy, Correlation, Neoliberalism
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Garrett, Robyne; Wrench, Alison – European Physical Education Review, 2018
Pedagogical practices in schooling bear a potential to impact on student success, achievement and engagement with schooling. This is especially the case for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are deeply dependent on schooling for their educational resources. Central to this paper are pedagogies for social justice and improved engagement…
Descriptors: Dance, Physical Education, Males, Action Research
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Overton, Hannah; Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2017
Background: Laws and legislation have prompted movement from special education towards inclusive education, whereby students with disabilities are included in mainstream physical education (PE) classes. It is widely acknowledged that including students with disabilities in PE presents significant challenges in relation to meeting the diverse needs…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Physical Education
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Garrett, Robyne; Wrench, Alison – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
Pedagogical practices are fundamental to teachers' work, and in the spaces of schooling impact significantly on students' success and achievement (Evans, J. 1986. "Physical Education, Sport and Schooling: Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education." London: Falmer Press.). This is especially the case for students from disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Physical Education, Socioeconomic Influences, Secondary School Curriculum
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Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2016
In developed economies, such as Australia, schooling is heavily impacted by neo-liberal and neo-conservative agendas. Policies suggest a homogeneity in students that fails to reflect regional contexts of inequality. For the new Australian Curriculum, which includes Health and Physical Education (AC: HPE), this logic prioritises consistency in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Equal Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Wrench, Alison; Garrett, Robyne – Sport, Education and Society, 2015
The field of physical education (PE), as it exists in teacher education, is dynamic as ways of preparing teachers to meet the needs of young people in contemporary times change. Such endeavours are underpinned by concerns about school-based PE, the alienation of students from PE, and responsibility for producing healthy students. Concerns also…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Inclusion