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Tag: Sport Pedagogy
Exploring the Female Athlete Experience in High-Performance Coaching – PESS Intern, Ellie McCartney.
What was your role during the internship?During my eight-week PESS internship, I conducted a qualitative study exploring the lived experiences of female athletes in high-performance environments. My role involved designing and implementing a narrative-based […]
Book Chapter: The Irish Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Workforce: An Example of Collective Action for High Impact
Chapter Summary: This is the first book chapter that offers an in-depth description of the Irish Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP) Workforce. It is the product of a collaboration from key PE stakeholders (e.g., PE […]
PESS postgrad students judge projects at the PE Xpo – jess curtis.
The PEXpo was held on Thursday 10th April in the National Indoor Arena on the Sport Ireland Campus in Dublin. Pictured at the PE Xpo are Prof Elaine Murtagh and PME PE students Megan O’Sullivan, […]
Sport Pedagogy Researchers present their work at the AIESEP 2024 International Conference – professor elaine murtagh.
The AIESEP international conference showcases the best research in sport pedagogy and physical education. Recently a team of researchers from PESS travelled to the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, to present at the 2024 AIESEP conference. […]
Publication: Psychometric Validation of the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football for Use in Physical Education and with Youth Sport Teams
Research Impact: Recently, the Tactical Assessment Instrument in Football (TAIS) was developed to address football’s tactical requirements. In this study, TAIS obtained psychometric support for assessing learning of football tactics in PE and youth sport […]
Publication: If ‘the medium is the message’, what do students learn to do in NLP and GBAs within physical education?
Research Impact: There is a proliferation of Game Based Approaches (GBAs) and Non-Linear Pedagogy (NLP) approach in research literature. Although comparisons between approaches have arisen at a theoretical level, there is no comparison of the […]
Reflecting on the first year of the reaccredited BSc in Physical Education – dr brendan O’Keeffe.
The BSc in Physical Education is one of the University of Limerick’s most popular and renowned courses, with a long history dating right back to the foundation of Thomond College as the National College of […]
My PESS Internship: The Pedagogy of Health-Related Activity – Aisling Ní shé.
As part of my PESS internship I was given the role of researching pedagogical approaches that could be used for teaching Health-Related Activities (HRA). As a student going into my final year of the BSc. […]
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 […]
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