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Potentialities in health and physical education: professional boundaries and change agendas

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’,...

Respecting the role of the physical body in teaching and learning

Covid-19 has shed light on the day-to-day life of teaching and learning. As parents began home-schooling and teachers adapted to innovative ways of connecting with students online, in our...

As “PE With Joe Wicks” comes to an end, a BERA Blog highlights the marginalisation of PE within the Curriculum

In a BERA Blog this week,Julie Stirrup, Oliver Hooper, Rachel Sandford, Jo Harris,Ash Casey and Lorraine Cale from Loughborough University argue that the marginalisation of PE within the...

‘PE’ with Joe (Bloggs): The rise and risks of celebrity ‘teachers’

Long before Covid-19 altered the way learning and teaching takes place, the subject of physical education (PE) was somewhat marginalised in the school curriculum. Within the UK, as elsewhere,...

Moving with the times: Educational video games to improve children’s movement skills

Modern children are increasingly sedentary and spend an average of six hours a day in front of a screen (Barnett et al., 2018). This has a significant impact on the movement capabilities of...

Playing quiz-games on their phones: A winning combination?

With increasing attention on blended and mobile learning alongside an ever-increasing attempt to measure engagement means that we are constantly looking for ways or tools to help students achieve....

Sarah Harding

Sarah is currently an ESRC-funded postdoctoral fellow at Durham University; whose research focuses on exploring how gendered identities are constructed in, and through, PE and School Sport. Prior...

Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy SIG aims: to provide a national forum for educational research in physical education and sport pedagogy to stimulate...

Annette Stride

Principal Lecturer

Annette joined Leeds Beckett University in September 2007 and is a Principal Lecturer in the Physical Education Academic Group in the Carnegie School of Sport. As Course Director she teaches on,...

Ash Casey

Senior Lecturer

As Professor of Physical Education and Pedagogy at Loughborough University, I've dedicated my career to enhancing the educational landscape of physical education, underpinned by the persistent...

Encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play

BERA has a new Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG)! It has the strategic aim of encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play across...

Transformative pedagogy in teacher education: Lessons from PE teacher educators

Over the last few years and throughout my PhD I have focussed on teaching for equity and diversity to improve the social ills that plague our society through my subject matter: physical education....