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Cillian Brennan; Richard Bowles; Elaine Murtagh – European Physical Education Review, 2025
The recent emergence of primary school generalist teachers with physical education (PE) expertise has addressed calls for some form of specialisation in primary PE provision in Ireland (Marron et al., 2018). It was hoped that these teachers could advance the quality of PE taught within schools, through their own teaching and by supporting…
Descriptors: Socialization, Physical Education, Beginning Teachers, Physical Education Teachers
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Aoife Neary; Ruari-Santiago McBride – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
There is a dearth of research with LGBTQI+ youth in PE and school sport, with particularly deep silences in relation to trans youth. Drawing from a qualitative study with trans and gender diverse youth in second-level schools in Ireland, this paper explores how trans and gender diverse young people are negotiating PE and school sport. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, LGBTQ People, Student Experience
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Mangione, Jessica; Parker, Melissa; O'Sullivan, Mary – European Physical Education Review, 2022
Neoliberalism is a pervasive phenomenon. A fundamental neoliberal concept allows for the selection of the best and most suitable option available for a specific course of action in any aspect of society. Not unexpectedly, the educational field, including physical education (PE), has been influenced by neoliberal ideas. A key element of…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Neoliberalism, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Cillian Brennan; Elaine Murtagh; Richard Bowles – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
Perceptions of quality physical education (QPE) can vary among teachers, due to the many discourses influencing physical education (PE) provision. There are concerns that the educative purposes of PE are not being fulfilled in its current state. This study aims to investigate PE specialism graduates' (PESGs') understanding of QPE, and how these…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Quality, Physical Education Teachers, Specialization
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Donal Howley; Ben Dyson; Seunghyun Baek – European Physical Education Review, 2025
Drawing on social constructivist learning theory and a conceptual framework for meaningful physical education (MPE), the purpose of this self-study was to present and explore how one teacher-researcher (TR) evolved their approach to implementing pedagogy promoting MPE in an alternative secondary/high school education setting. Utilizing self-study,…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Physical Education, Curriculum Implementation, Physical Education Teachers
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Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; Calderón, Antonio – European Physical Education Review, 2023
Examinable physical education (i.e. physical education as a certificate subject in a high-stakes environment) has distinctive forms of practical and theoretical knowledge, and the concept of 'integration' has been identified as a means to bridge such forms of knowledge. This paper explores how teachers interpret, translate, and enact curriculum…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
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O'Brien, Wesley; Philpott, Conor; Lester, Diarmuid; Belton, Sarahjane; Duncan, Michael J.; Donovan, Brian; Chambers, Fiona; Utesch, Till – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023
Background: The meaningful assessment of motor competence is well positioned for school-based curricular emphasis, through the integration of motor skills and movement patterns in both primary, and second level school physical education. Aligned with the growing interest in holistic motor competence assessment in physical education, the aim of…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Physical Education, Adolescents, Gender Differences
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Tarantino, Giampiero; Neville, Ross D. – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Since the publication of the Education for People with Special Educational Needs Act in 2004, inclusion in Ireland has become a priority for the educational system. Despite the promotion of physical education (PE) as a key setting for facilitating inclusion in schools, research has shown that the children with special educational needs and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Physical Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Brennan, Cillian; Bowles, Richard; Murtagh, Elaine – Education 3-13, 2023
This research investigated the self-efficacy, beliefs, and practices of generalist primary school teachers who undertook the Bachelor of Education with a specialism in PE between 2016 and 2019. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey, and 80 valid responses were received. The findings suggest self-efficacy is high among these…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education
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Scanlon, Dylan; Calderón, Antonio; MacPhail, Ann – Curriculum Journal, 2021
Drawing on the concept of agency and teacher agency and engaging with figurational sociology, this paper explores the extent to which teacher agency plays a role in one teacher's enactment of a new school subject (Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE), an examinable subject assessed in a high-stakes environment) in a period of curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Autonomy, Physical Education, Secondary School Teachers
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Mike Jess; Melissa Parker; Nicola Carse; Andrew Douglass; Jeanne Keay; Lucio Martinez Alvarez; Alison Murray; Julie Pearson; Vicky Randall; Tony Sweeney – European Physical Education Review, 2024
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 across Europe were sought. While teacher educators may have some influence across the layers of an education…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies
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Lorusso, Jenna R.; Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann; Hargreaves, Suzanne; Storey, Mike; Dabbagh, Lara – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2022
Widely held traditional policy perspectives within physical education, and the linear and top-down assumptions about policy processes associated with them, arguably limit the perceivable scope of policy engagement possibilities, particularly for front-line policy actors. To illuminate this assertion, we utilised the revelatory incident technique.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Stakeholders
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Marron, Susan; Murphy, Frances; Pitsia, Vasiliki; Scheuer, Claude – Education 3-13, 2023
Using data from the Disentangling Inclusion in Primary Physical Education (DIPPE) Erasmus+ project, this study aimed at investigating teachers' practices related to inclusion of children with additional needs (AN) in primary physical education (PE) and identifying supports that could enhance these practices. Responses from 1170 primary teachers…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Elementary Education, Physical Education, Students with Disabilities
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Murtagh, Elaine M.; Calderón, Antonio; Scanlon, Dylan; MacPhail, Ann – European Physical Education Review, 2023
Delivering physical education teacher education (PETE) programmes through online platforms has been proposed as an alternative (or complementary) to traditional in-person modes of learning. Focusing on empirical studies, this mixed studies review explores the use of online teaching and learning in PETE and synthesises literature published between…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Bowles, Richard; O'Sullivan, Mary – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Recent studies suggest school communities accept the goods and services of external providers uncritically. Considering the pivotal role played by teachers in curriculum and policy enactment, this paper explores how and why teachers in Ireland advocate for, and engage with, the services and resources of one particular external provider, the Gaelic…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Outsourcing, Elementary School Teachers, Athletic Coaches
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