Research Impact: When introducing blended learning in a (physical education) teacher education programme, we suggest designing an aligned and integrated approach structured in blocks, where all instructional components are interconnected and informing each other, enhancing […]
Welcome back to Part 2 of our blog! To recap, we are focusing on the online space of teaching pedagogy of aquatics. Below we work through our rethinking and redesigning thought-process and share our ideas […]
As we re-enter the next academic semester, physical education teacher educators are in a process of translating their usual face-to-face teaching into online material which can be used in a fully online or blended learning […]
Research Impact Summary: In the context of the redevelopment of the primary curriculum and the enactment of the Junior Cycle Framework, this publication explores young people’s voice with regards to their experiences of collective physical […]
The current Covid-19 pandemic has greatly influenced on our teaching and learning at higher education. This influence has shifted our teaching from a face-to-face environment / blended learning environment to a fully online environment; a […]
For the past three years, Claire Walsh (PESS) has invited me onto the Professional Masters of Education (physical education) module ‘Physical Education Teachers as Lifelong Learners’ to work with pre-service teachers on Leaving Certificate Physical […]
Research impact summary: This publication reviews Trent Brown and Dawn Penney’s book titled ‘Examination Physical Education: Policy, Pedagogies, and Possibilities’. This book brings research on examination physical education together with the intent of critically analysing the research and […]
Research Impact Summary: This paper explores the construction of the Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE) specification and specifically, the influence of roles and power-ratios within the group (Physical Education Development Group – PEDG) responsible for such […]
On May 15th 2019, the Physical Education and Sport Sciences Department held a Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE) workshop day for 8 post-primary schools who are enacting the LCPE curriculum. PESS staff and post-graduates ran […]
Research Impact Summary: This paper explores how the Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE) specification was constructed. Ten Physical Education Development Group (PEDG) members, who had the responsibility of such construction, were interviewed. This construction process was […]
