Research impact: This paper presents the lived experience of a practitioner researcher working as a teacher educator engaging in action research with primary pre-service teachers (PSTs). It is hoped that it may serve as a […]
Tag: Ann MacPhail
Publication: Identifying school-based teacher educators’ professional learning needs: an international survey
Research Impact: This study provides an international needs analysis of the professional learning needs of this occupational group through a survey of 1680 school-based teacher educators (SBTEs) conducted in 12 countries. While the findings from […]
Publication: Integrated learning experiences in examinable physical education: A co-constructed teaching template
Research Impact: Two teacher educators and two practising physical education teachers, worked together to explore the notion of integrated learning experiences and constructed teaching resources for the teaching of such experiences. The research team constructed […]
Advocating for social justice across teacher education programmes: Ten realities experienced by teacher educators – Allison Campbell and Ann MacPhail.
As was noted in an earlier blog post, https://rb.gy/hjbba colleagues in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) at the University of Limerick and at the Ulster University have secured funding from The […]
Publication: Preparing pre-service physical education teachers as practitioner researchers
Research Impact: The focus for this paper is on considering the perceptions to which a chosen enactment of practitioner research in a Physical Education Teacher Education programme prepares pre-service teachers (PSTs) to understand, appreciate and […]
Publication: Online teaching and learning in physical education teacher education: A mixed studies review of literature
Research Impact: 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. Prompted by the shift to online learning during the […]
Co-creating a preparatory policy engagement programme for quality physical education – Dr. Jenna r. lorusso.
Physical education, when provided in a quality form, can develop healthy, active, and engaged citizens who form the basis of sustainable development (UNESCO, 2021). However, the potential of quality physical education is not currently being […]
Publication: Enhancing sport education experiences through service-learning
Research Impact: This study explores the extent to which service-learning (SL) can enhance the educational potential of sport education (SE), with a view to contributing to a positive transition for students from primary to secondary […]
Publication: SOLIDARITY IN ACTION: A CO-DESIGNED SPECIAL ISSUE WITH BRAZILIAN AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS
Research Impact: The purpose of this paper is to offer a template for colleagues who wish to co-design a Special Issue that interrogates the notion of solidarity. In this Special Issue, twenty-two researchers (nine Brazilians […]
Publication: Designing and facilitating an effective action research experience: Co-construction between a teacher educator and pre-service teachers
Research Impact: The purpose of this study was to explore the co-construction of an action research (AR) experience between a teacher educator and pre-service teachers (PSTs). Participants were six PSTs and a teacher educator who […]
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