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Students' Perspectives of Urban Middle School Physical Education Programs
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Dyson, Ben; Coviello, Nicole; DiCesare, Emma; Dyson, Lisa – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore and interpret students' perspectives of their experiences in four urban middle school physical education programs. Focus group interviews with 76 students were supported by field notes and researchers' reflective journals. Researchers used constant comparison methods (Lincoln & Guba, 1985) to identify seven…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Play, Physical Activities, Focus Groups
Action Research in Physical Education: Focusing beyond Myself through Cooperative Learning
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Casey, Ashley; Dyson, Ben; Campbell, Anne – Educational Action Research, 2009
This paper reports on the pedagogical changes that I experienced as a teacher engaged in an action research project in which I designed and implemented an indirect, developmentally appropriate and child-centred approach to my teaching. There have been repeated calls to expunge--or at least rationalise--the use of traditional, teacher-led practice…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Interpersonal Relationship
The Implementation of Models-Based Practice in Physical Education through Action Research
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Casey, Ashley; Dyson, Ben – European Physical Education Review, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of action research as a framework to investigate cooperative learning and tactical games as instructional models in physical education (PE). The teacher/researcher taught a tennis unit using a combination of Cooperative Learning and Teaching Games for Understanding to three classes of boys aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Racquet Sports, Games