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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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Innovation with Change: Developing a Community of Practice to Help Teachers Move beyond the '"Honeymoon" of Pedagogical Renovation
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Goodyear, Victoria A.; Casey, Ashley – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2015
Background: Physical education has long been caught in a time of "innovation without change". Yet, despite a wealth of pedagogical innovations and policies, which encourage a reconsideration of the "traditional pedagogy", teachers rarely move beyond the honeymoon period of implementation. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Communities of Practice, Teacher Improvement
Models-Based Practice: Great White Hope or White Elephant?
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Casey, Ashley – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Many critical curriculum theorists in physical education have advocated a model- or models-based approach to teaching in the subject. This paper explores the literature base around models-based practice (MBP) and asks if this multi-models approach to curriculum planning has the potential to be the great white hope of pedagogical change…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Models, Curriculum Development
Student Learning during a Unit of Student-Designed Games
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Casey, Ashley; Hastie, Peter A.; Rovegno, Inez – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: In the 1970s and 1980s, there was considerable discussion about the potential of student-designed games to help students develop a more refined and deeper understanding of games. Unfortunately, despite these sophisticated conversations, there has been limited empirical research on the effectiveness of student-designed games,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Writing Processes, Foreign Countries
Students and Teacher Responses to a Unit of Student-Designed Games
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Casey, Ashley; Hastie, Peter A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Despite the support in primary education that student-designed games enhance student contextualisation of skills and tactics, there has been little support in secondary education, nor any empirical research exploring these claims. This paper attempts to rekindle these beliefs and explores the use of student-designed games in an English…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Play, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes