Research and Practice in Physical Education

ISBN-13: 9780415698634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Ann MacPhail; Deborah Tannehill

Opis

Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest. This innovative new text is designed to assist PE students, pre-service teachers, practising teachers and teacher educators to learn how to read research and to apply it to practice in primary and secondary physical education.

The book presents a clear, step-by-step guide to how to read and interpret research, followed by a series of short and engaging introductions to contemporary research studies on key topics in physical education, from classroom management and programme design to assessment and social issues. Each study is discussed from the point of view of researcher and teacher, providing the reader with invaluable insight into how to use research to generate new ideas and improve their teaching practice.

Research and Practice in Physical Education is the perfect companion to any course in research methods, current issues, learning and teaching, or pedagogy and curriculum in physical education.

Spis treści

Introduction to Reading Research  Guidelines for Reading Research - A Commonsense View  Section I – Student Engagement and Experience  1. Individual and instructional determinants of student engagement in physical education  2. Physical education resources, class management and student physical activity levels  3. How can we enhance enjoyment of secondary school?  4. Measuring secondary pupils' disruptive behaviours in physical education  5. Social preferences for learning among adolescents in secondary physical education  Section II – Instruction, Learning and Assessment  6. Students and teacher responses to a unit of student-designed games  7. The gendering of abilities in physical education  8. Perceptions of middle school assessment  9. Student perception of caring teaching in physical education  10. Defining, acquiring, and transacting cultural capital through assessment in physical education  11. Students’ and teachers’ experiences of assessment for learning  Section III – Curriculum Models  12. The influence of student status on student interactions and experiences during a sport education unit  13. Influence of a hybrid sport education—teaching games for understanding unit  14. Measuring Students’ Perceptions of Personal and Social Responsibility and the Relationship to Intrinsic Motivation in Urban Physical Education  15. The role of various curriculum models on physical activity levels  16. Influence of occupational socialization on preservice teachers’ interpretation and delivery of the sport education modeol  17. Adventure-based learning and reflection  Section IV – Continuing Professional Development  18. Development and Maintenance of a Community of Practice  19. Professional development when introducing a novel curriculum model  20. Collaborative learning in physical education teachers’ early-career professional development  21. Collaborative professional learning: From theory to practice  22. Teacher professional development: Who is the learner?  Finding Different Ways to Make Research Serve Teaching   Annotated List of Selected Research Journals