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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hickey, Chris; Kirk, David; Macdonald, Doune; Penney, Dawn – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
This paper was developed at the request of the Organising Committee for the 27th Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation International Conference, in Melbourne, 2013. Its genesis was as a feature forum, wherein a panel of curriculum experts were bought together to discuss the emergence of the Australian Health and Physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Health Education
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Renwick, Kerry – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2014
This paper will consider ways in which students are constructed as aliens in health classrooms. Creating the classroom as a setting for health promotion requires closer attention to those who make use of such space. If classrooms are places where diversity exists and is recognised, then health educators are challenged to consider how students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Materials, Information Literacy, Praxis
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McCuaig, Louise; Quennerstedt, Mikael; Macdonald, Doune – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
The draft Australian Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], 2012c) takes a strengths-based approach that emphasizes questions such as "What keeps me healthy and active?" rather than "What risks, diseases and behaviours should I learn to avoid?". This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Information Literacy, Health Materials
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Brown, Trent D. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
Arnold's dimensions of movement, commonly known as education "in, through and about" movement, serve as one of five propositions in the development of a new national curriculum document for Health and Physical Education. The purpose of this article is to examine these dimensions, before undertaking an interrogation of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, National Curriculum, Physical Activities
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Alfrey, Laura; Brown, Trent D. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2013
The concept of "health literacy" is becoming increasingly prominent internationally, and it has been identified as one of the five key propositions that underpin the forthcoming Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (ACHPE). The ACHPE is one of few national curricula to explicitly refer to health literacy, identifying it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Health Materials, Curriculum Design
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Usher, Wayne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2012
Stemming from the social media (Web 2.0) phenomenon, this paper will discuss how such modern communication technologies have inadvertently caused a paradigm shift throughout the Australian school health education landscape. Furthermore, attention will be directed towards investigating the ensuing challenges, potentials and transformations…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Information Retrieval, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
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Martin, Peter; McCullagh, John – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2011
The Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) includes Outdoor Education (OE) as a component of Physical Education (PE). Yet Outdoor Education is clearly thought of by many as a discrete discipline separate from Physical Education. Outdoor Education has a body of knowledge that differs from that of Physical…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries
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Reid, Alan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2011
This article presents a transcript of the 21st Fritz Duras Memorial Lecture, presented at the 27th ACHPER International Conference on Tuesday April 19 2011, at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia. In this lecture, the author focuses on Physical Education, rather than the broader field comprising all those areas that, at least in…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Penney, Dawn – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2010
This paper explores contemporary Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum in Australia in the context of the ongoing development of a new national curriculum. Drawing on policy documents and academic commentaries it reviews and problematises the current position and prospective development of HPE in the Australian Curriculum, examining key…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Physical Education, Foreign Countries
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Ovens, Alan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 2010
The launch of New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) brings into question the future of the reforms introduced in the 1999 curriculum, Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand National Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 1999). The aim of this paper is to critique recent physical education curriculum policy in New Zealand and…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change