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Tag: Dylan Scanlon
Working with pre-service teachers on Leaving Certificate Physical Education – Dylan Scanlon
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 […]
Publication: Book Review ‘Examination Physical Education: Policy, Pedagogies, and Possibilities’
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 […]
Publication: Conceptualising examinable physical education in the Irish context: Leaving Certificate Physical Education
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 […]
PESS hosts Leaving Certificate Physical Education workshop day – Dylan Scanlon
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 […]
Publication: Original intentions & unintended consequences: the ‘contentious’ role of assessment in the development of Leaving Certificate Physical Education in Ireland
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 […]
Historic launch of Leaving Certificate Physical Education and Senior Cycle Physical Education – Dylan Scanlon
On the 22nd Feburary, 2018, Claire Walsh and Dylan Scanlon represented the Physical Education and Sport Sciences Department at a historic day for physical education in Ireland as Minister of Education, Richard Bruton, launched phase […]
PESS Postgraduate Scholarship Awarded to Dylan Scanlon
Congratulations to Dylan Scanlon on being awarded a PESS 2017 scholarships for his PhD Study. Dylan Scanlon (supervised by Prof. Ann MacPhail and Dr. Antonio Calderon) was awarded a scholarship for his proposed PhD study […]
