This past Autumn, our i-PLAYERS were treated to some special guests in attendance to celebrate our 15th session of the ‘Inclusive Play & Leisure Activities for Youth’ (i-PLAY) programme. William O Donoghue and Sean Finn, […]
Tag: Physical Education
Publication: Not academic enough? Enjoyment of P.E and arts education and school engagement in early and middle adolescence
Research Impact Summary: School engagement is a prominent concept in the education and youth development literatures. While multiple factors contribute to student engagement at school, research on the role of curricular factors is scarce. Based on […]
PEPAYS Ireland Forum 2018 ‘Enacting and researching Irish school physical education’. Professor Ann MacPhail
This was the first time that the PEPAYS Ireland Forum was held on a Saturday and the day proved successful given almost 80 attendees were present and that a significant number were practicing physical education […]
Appropriate & Inappropriate Uses of Fitness Tests in School Settings – Brendan O’Keeffe
Let’s all gather round and guess Johnny’s weight… I spoke in a previous blog about the divisive, often vociferous, nature of the debate that surrounds fitness testing in physical education. I put forward that, provided […]
Publication: Interrogating the enactment of a service-learning course in a physical education teacher education programme
Research Impact: Service-learning is a community-based method of education in which students fulfill the academic goals of their courses and simultaneously contribute to the welfare of the community. This study interrogates a course-embedded service-learning project […]
BSc. Physical Education: Congratulations to all of our graduating Physical Education students. Dr Daniel Tindall
On behalf of the Physical Education faculty here at the University of Limerick, and as Course Director, I would like to congratulate all of our 4th year students on the completion of their degree programme. […]
Equality Games 2018 at the University of Limerick – Shauna Molloy
On Friday, 20th April, 3rd year Physical Education (PE) students from the University of Limerick (UL) held the inaugural Equality Games. 6th class pupils from the following Limerick schools – St Patrick’s Boys, St. Patrick’s Girls and the Gaelscoil, travelled to the University campus to participate on the […]
Be supportive and collaborative – Yueying Gong
I’m a Chinese second year PhD student in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences (PESS) in UL. This year, I have developed my research skills further and I have found myself being more […]
Publication: Physical education teacher education in a global policy space
This Special Issue sought to focus attention on physical education teacher education (PETE) by building the knowledge base and broadening the geographical, theoretical, and innovative writing about PETE, physical education teacher educators, as well as […]
UL lead collaboration on ‘Children’s Sport Participation & Physical Activity’- Dr Cormac Powell
In Ireland, limited physical activity data exist that have been collected from representative samples of children and even fewer data collected where physical activity has been measured with precision1-5. The original Children’s Sport Participation and […]
