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Enacting Critical Health Literacy in the Australian Secondary School Curriculum: The Possibilities Posed by e-Health
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McCuaig, Louise; Carroll, Kristie; Macdonald, Doune – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
The teaching of health literacy in school-based health education (SBHE) is of international interest, yet there is less ready access to how conceptions of health literacy can be operationalised in school programmes. More specifically, while articulated in curriculum documents such as the incoming Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Health Materials, Secondary School Curriculum
A Salutogenic, Strengths-Based Approach as a Theory to Guide HPE Curriculum Change
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McCuaig, Louise; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Macdonald, Doune – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
The draft Australian Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2012c) takes a strengths-based approach that emphasizes questions such as "What keeps me healthy and active?" rather than "What risks, diseases and behaviours should I learn to avoid?". This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Information Literacy, Health Materials
A Lost Opportunity? Vocational Education in Physical Education
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Brown, Seth Earl; Macdonald, Doune – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Vocational education in Australia and elsewhere has a history of being gendered and classed, thereby limiting the post-school options of students undertaking this form of study. Drawing on Foucauldian theory, the authors used Gore's eight techniques of power to examine the micro-functioning of power relations at two case sites.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Teacher Aides, Student Attitudes
One Step Forwards, Two Backwards: Deprofessionalization within Physical Education.
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Macdonald, Doune – 1992
This paper describes several key issues which are shaping the profession of Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE). The issues include tertiary education, teacher education and schooling, and deprofessionalization. Drawing from data at an Australian case site, the paper argues that these key issues shape the profession's knowledge, values,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education