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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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The Predicament of Primary Physical Education: A Consequence of "Insufficient" ITT and "Ineffective" CPD?
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Harris, Jo; Cale, Lorraine; Musson, Hayley – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: Research on primary physical education (PE) in England and other countries has shown that it is an aspect of the curriculum that has suffered from sparse initial teacher training (ITT). As a consequence of "insufficient" time spent on PE in ITT (PE-ITT), primary teachers often have low levels of confidence and competence with respect…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Continuing Education
Physical Education Teachers' Continuing Professional Development in Health-Related Exercise
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Alfrey, Laura; Cale, Lorraine; Webb, Louisa A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: As a component of the physical education curriculum, Health-Related Exercise (HRE) has been subject to intensive critique in terms of its status, organisation and expression in schools. Concerns and questions have also been raised about physical education teachers' professional knowledge of health and the extent to which HRE features…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Teaching Methods, Professional Development
Fitness Testing in Physical Education--A Misdirected Effort in Promoting Healthy Lifestyles and Physical Activity?
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Cale, Lorraine; Harris, Jo – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2009
Background: Physical fitness testing is commonplace within schools and the physical education (PE) curriculum, with advocates claiming one of the key purposes of testing to be the promotion of healthy lifestyles and physical activity. Despite this, much controversy has surrounded the fitness testing of young people. Purpose: This paper draws on…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Feasibility Studies, Testing
Ofsted--"Brief Encounters of a Second Kind"?!
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Cale, Lorraine; Harris, Jo – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2009
Background: Since 1995, the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) has inspected the quality of all Initial Teacher Training (ITT) provision in England on behalf of the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA). Ofsted inspection results are published and are highly significant because the TDA has a statutory duty to take account of…
Descriptors: Validity, Inspection, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education