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What Examining Teaching Metaphors Tells Us about Pre-Service Teachers' Developing Beliefs about Teaching and Learning
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Tannehill, Deborah; MacPhail, Ann – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: Pre-service teachers (PSTs) typically do not change their beliefs about teaching and learning during teacher education unless they are confronted with, and challenged about, their held beliefs through powerful and meaningful experiences that cause them to recognise and value the change process and its consequences for themselves and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
Professional Learning as a Physical Education Teacher Educator
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MacPhail, Ann – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Teacher education is expected to support pre-service teachers (PSTs) as they respond to the challenges of becoming self-reliant learners, and position them within the context of a professional learning approach. In doing so, teacher educators need to exemplify lifelong characteristics of learning in our practice and attitudes,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preservice Teacher Education, Research Design, Physical Education
Teachers' Views on the Construction, Management and Delivery of an Externally Prescribed Physical Education Curriculum: Higher Grade Physical Education
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MacPhail, Ann – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2007
Background: The level of influence teachers have over changing developments in curricula to suit their individual schools is not matched by the influence they possess in the development of such curricula outside of the school context. Bernstein's model of the social construction of pedagogic discourse allows examination of the development,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Development, Research Design, Physical Education
The Use of Drawings as an Evaluative Tool: Students' Experiences of Sport Education
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MacPhail, Ann; Kinchin, Gary – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2004
In this paper we examine the use of student drawings as a means of investigating students' perceptions of a particular school-based experience, namely Sport Education--for which we are using the description proposed by Siedentop (1994; 1998). On completion of a 16-week season of Sport Education in a primary school in the Midlands of England, 46…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods