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50 Years of ERIC
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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McMahon, Jennifer A.; Dinan Thompson, Maree – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
In recent years in tertiary institutions in Australia, there has been a large increase of enrolments in Education courses delivered via an online/external mode. This has raised a number of concerns around the nexus of theory and practice and whether pre-service teachers feel ready to teach after completing Education study online. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Health Education, Physical Education
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McMahon, Jennifer A.; Penney, Dawn – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This paper reports on research that has explored the use of narrative as a pedagogical tool in pre service teacher education. Specifically, we pursue the use of narrative to engage with pre service teachers' embodied experiences [their lived body] and the ways in which these experiences are in turn currently influencing their "living bodies" in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education, Health Education, Human Body
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McMahon, Jennifer A.; Huntly, Helen E – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This paper reports on narrative research that focuses on two tertiary Health and Physical Education (HPE) educators' bodies. In particular, it explores how their lived encounters impacted upon their everyday teaching practice. Narrative accounts are used to present their lived and living bodies in this research. Findings suggest that they…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, College Faculty, Personal Narratives