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Welcome to Season 2 and my new series.

The Twenty 20 Vision Series sees me reading an academic paper and write a blog in no more than 40 minutes. Twenty minutes reading and 20 minutes writing (this twenty 20). Whatever emerges is then be published. The aim is to make paper reading and blog writing manageable whilst maintaining the integrity and usefulness of PEPRN.

In this Podcast, I read the Twenty 20 Vision blog (published 21st April 2023) which explores Xuan Meng and colleagues (2020) paper ‘Health First’ and curriculum reform in China: The experiences of physical education teachers in one city.”

Welcome to Season 2 and my new series.

The Twenty 20 Vision Series sees me reading an academic paper and write a blog in no more than 40 minutes. Twenty minutes reading and 20 minutes writing (this twenty 20). Whatever emerges is then be published. The aim is to make paper reading and blog writing manageable whilst maintaining the integrity and usefulness of PEPRN.

In this Podcast, I read the Twenty 20 Vision blog (published 7th April 2023) which explores Deborah Tannehill, and collegaues (2020) paper “Continuing professional development for physical education teachers in Europe.” 

Welcome to Season 2 and my new series.

The Twenty 20 Vision Series sees me reading an academic paper and write a blog in no more than 40 minutes. Twenty minutes reading and 20 minutes writing (this twenty 20). Whatever emerges is then be published. The aim is to make paper reading and blog writing manageable whilst maintaining the integrity and usefulness of PEPRN.

In this Podcast, I read the Twenty 20 Vision blog (published 24th March 2023) which explores Mikael Quennerstedt’s 2019 paper “Physical education and the art of teaching: transformative learning and teaching in physical education and sports pedagogy”.

Welcome to Season 2 and my new series.

The Twenty 20 Vision Series sees me reading an academic paper and write a blog in no more than 40 minutes. Twenty minutes reading and 20 minutes writing (this twenty 20). Whatever emerges is then be published. The aim is to make paper reading and blog writing manageable whilst maintaining the integrity and usefulness of PEPRN.

In this Podcast, I read the Twenty 20 Vision blog (published 10th March 2023) which explores Valeria Varea and colleagues’ 2022 paper “Exploring the changes of physical education in the age of Covid-19”.

In Season 2 I begin a new series. 

The Twenty 20 Vision Series sees me reading an academic paper and write a blog in no more than 40 minutes. Twenty minutes reading and 20 minutes writing (this twenty 20). Whatever emerges is then be published. The aim is to make paper reading and blog writing manageable whilst maintaining the integrity and usefulness of PEPRN.

In this Podcast, I read the Twenty 20 Vision blog (published 24th February 2023) which explores Justen O’Connor and colleagues’ 2022 paper “Rethinking the classification of games and sports in physical education: a response to changes in sport and participation”.

In this podcast we continue to explore workplace learning. Drawing on the work of Tony Rossi, lisahunter, Erin Christensen and Doune Macdonald, this podcast considers how successful trainee teacher often need more than good pedagogy to thrive. They also need to share the same interests in traditional male sports as current staff, (2) be a team player, and (3) have the type of humour that allows then to (a) turn a blind eye, (b) laugh at senior colleagues’ jokes, and (b) be able to take a joke themselves.

In this podcast we continue to explore workplace learning. Drawing on the work of Tony Rossi, lisahunter, Erin Christensen and Doune Macdonald, this podcast considers how many different versions of themselves trainee and early career teachers need in order to thrive in schools. Indeed it seems they often need to be different people depending on which room they’re in.

In this podcast we continue to explore workplace learning – particularly the subtle differences that exist between the staffrooms or PE offices we each experience. Drawing on the work of Tony Rossi, lisahunter, Erin Christensen and Doune Macdonald, this podcast considers the different spaces of teacher education. Specifically, it recognises that what you and I might see as a safe space might be perceived by another as an unsafe or challenged space. Consequently, we must be mindful of the experiences of all when considering teaching and teacher education and the tightropes people walk between research and practice. 

This podcast explores workplace learning – particularly the learning that occurs outside of the formal process and in the staffroom or PE office. Drawing on the work of Tony Rossi, lisahunter, Erin Christensen and Doune Macdonald, this podcast considers the different faces of teacher education. Specifically, it explores the unchallenged idea that learning to teach is best done in schools where issues of power and tradition have a strong part to play in the early careers of novice teachers. "Biting your tongue", "turning a blind eye" and 'playing the game' are just some of the messages to emerge from this book and our discussions, as is the need for some pre-service teachers to fit in to a department rather than stand apart.  

This podcast explores issues of race in physical education and physical educational and teacher education. Drawing on the work of Langston Clark in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, we consider what a critical race pedagogy of physical education might be and acknowledge the need for allies and advocacy in this journey.

It is hard to argue that empowering students to make personally and socially responsible life choices both in and beyond the gymnasium is a commendable goal of physical education. It seems, however, that such outcomes are a bye-product of a skills-focused curriculum and not a deliberate and taught aspect of our subject. In other words, we don’t strive to cause affective learning as much as we hope they will happen. This podcast explores these issues through its consideration of Kevin Richards and colleagues 2019 paper “Combining the Skill Themes Approach with Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility to Teach Social and Emotional Learning in Elementary Physical Education from the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

“Highly-skilled students weren’t unable to gain respect through dominant play. Instead, they earnt respect through thoughtful decision-making, effective teaching, and positive support for every player.” This week’s podcast explores the late Cathy Ennis and Colleagues 1999 paper “Creating a Sense of Family in Urban Schools Using the “Sport for Peace” Curriculum from  Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

Do girls experience sport at the same club and with the same facilities in the same way boys do? If they don't (as is evidenced in this paper and many news stories regarding women's sport) what can they do about it? Who’s making the decision about what’s relevant or not for these young people? This week’s podcast explore’s Carla Luguetti and Colleagues 2021 paper ‘Stop mocking, start respecting’: an activist approach meets African Australian refugee-background young women in grassroots football from Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health for some answers.

Does PE prepare young people to be active in spaces that surround them? Who’s making the decision about what’s relevant or not for these young people? This week's podcast explores James Rudd and colleagues 2021 paper “An ecological dynamics conceptualisation of physical ‘education’: Where we have been and where we could go next” from Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 

Not everyone is welcome in the public spaces that surround us and not all spaces, and the faces that reside there, are seen as being equal. This podcast prioritises the need to open our eyes to the realities of space and the racial spatiality they support and nurture. In this, the 13th episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about Brian Culp's 2020 paper ‘Thirdspace Investigations: Geography, Dehumanization, and Seeking Spatial Justice in Kinesiology’ from Quest.

Many children in our care suffer experience adverse childhood experiences which may lead to trauma which, in turn, impacts on their lives. But how responsive are teachers to the needs to these children? This podcast asks if we need "trauma-aware pedagogies" design to support and nurture the learning of these young people. In this, the 12th episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about the five principles of trauma-aware pedagogies in PE suggested by Tom Quarmby and Colleagues in their 2021 paper "Developing evidence-informed principles for trauma-aware pedagogies in physical eduction" from Physical Eduction and Sport Pedagogy. 

In this, the 11th episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about the different logics attributed to physical literacy in research and policy as we explore Mikael Quennerstedt, and colleagues 2020 paper “The fantasmatic logics of physical literacy” from Sport, Education and Society.

In this, the tenth episode of the PEPRN Podcast, we talk about the marketplace of physical education as we explore Doune Macdonald’s 2011 paper “like a fish in water: physical Education Policy and Practice in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization” from Quest.

The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper “Fish in Water” can be found at www.peprn.com along with more than 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In this special edition I present on a conversation between teachers and trainee teachers regarding the teaching of examination PE. This podcast is broken into two parts to make it easier to access but this should be considered as a single conversation. In this part we explore Understanding the practical demands of GCSE/A Level PE, Dual Coding resources for knowledge recall, Diagnostics: Exam misconceptions and correction techniques, and Retrieval practice in GCSE PE.

In this special edition I present on a conversation between teachers and trainee teachers regarding the teaching of examination PE. This podcast is broken into two parts to make it easier to access but this should be considered as a single conversation. In this part we explore Flipped Learning, teaching A’Level PE, the use of Technology, and using a visualiser to model answers.

In the ninth episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore Vicky Goodyear and colleagues paper "Young people’s uses of wearable healthy lifestyle technologies: Surveillance, self-surveillance and resistance" from Sport, Education and Society. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with more than 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In the eighth episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore Déirdre Ní Chróinín and colleagues paper "Pedagogical principles of learning to teach meaningful physical education" from Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with more than 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In the fifth episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore Shrehan Lynch and Matt Curtner-Smith’s 2019 paper  “‘You have to find your slant, your groove:’ one physical education teacher's efforts to employ transformative pedagogy” from volume 24 of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with over 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In the fourth episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore Bryan McCullick and colleagues 2003 paper “Butches, Bullies and Buffoons: Images of Physical Education Teachers in the Movies” from volume 8 of Sport, Education and Society. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with over 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In the third episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore Risto Marttinen and colleagues 2019 paper “Students’ Perceptions of Technology Integration During the F.I.T. Unit” from volume 90 of Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with over 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In the second episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore  Casey and MacPhail's (2018) paper "Adopting a models-based approach to teaching physical education" published in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with over 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.

In the first episode of the PEPRN Podcast we explore Shane Pill's (2014) paper "Game Play: What does it mean for pedagogy to think like a game designer?" published in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The PEPRN Blog summarising this paper can be found at www.peprn.com along with over 400 other such "research interpretation" blogs.