Past event
This BERA event has been organised to showcase a special issue of the Curriculum Journal entitled ‘Potentialities in health and physical education: Professional boundaries and change agendas’, edited by Dr. Malcolm Thorburn and Dr. Shirley Gray (University of Edinburgh).
The special issue raises some demanding issues about the future of health and physical education (HPE) at a time when arguments for enhanced curriculum prominence exist alongside the possibility of increased marketisation in school governance arrangements. These complexities are reviewed in terms of their implications for change agendas in schools, both in regard to subject teaching and more widely in terms of their consequences for the professional boundaries that shape and define educators work. Papers in the special issue focus on two broad areas:
The editorial aspiration for the papers in this special issue, and for this BERA event, is that collectively they will stimulate further professional discussions and inform future research agendas.
There are nine articles in this special issue. Authors from five of those articles will present their research during this event. They are:
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Honorary Fellow at University of Edinburgh
Malcolm Thorburn is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His main research focus is on conceptual matters associated with values in health and physical education, especially in relation to phenomenology (embodiment and...
Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at University of Edinburgh
Dr Shirley Gray is a senior lecturer in Physical Education at the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores how teachers understand and enact curriculum policy, and how they might be supported to provide their students with positive learning...
Associate Professor at University of Waikato
Kirsten Petrie is an Associate Professor, in Te Huataki Waiora School of Health at The University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has published and presented widely on health and physical education in primary schools on matters relating to...
Professor of Movement and Sport Pedagogy at University of Graz
Dr. Sebastian Ruin is a professor of Movement and Sport Pedagogy at the University of Graz (Austria). He made his PHD in 2015 at the German Sport University Cologne (Germany) and used to work as an interim professor at the Philipps-Universität...
Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh
Mike Jess is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. His main interest focuses on the relationship between complexity-related perspectives and educational practice in physical education. Recently, this work has concentrated on...
Lecturer in Health and Physical Education at Deakin University
Dylan Scanlon is a PhD researcher in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Limerick. Dylan’s research interests include physical education curriculum and assessment, teaching and learning in physical...
Lecturer at Victoria University
Carla is a Lecturer in Physical Education and Health in the College of Sport and Exercise Science, and research fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport at VU. Carla’s line of research focuses on topics of sport pedagogy and social justice,...
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This BERA event was organised to showcase a special issue of the Curriculum Journal entitled ‘Potentialities in health and physical education: Professional boundaries and change agendas’,...
