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Direct linkMacdonald, Doune; Abbott, Rebecca; lisahunter; Hay, Peter; McCuaig, Louise – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
Background: The association between physical activity/fitness with cognitive and academic functioning has become a topic of considerable research interest. Increasingly, schooling systems are being expected to respond to these relationships through curricular and extra-curricular interventions. Purpose: This paper reports on the qualitative…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Macdonald, Doune – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2014
With claims that neo-liberalism is the "specific defining political/economic paradigm of the age in which we live?…?" [Apple, Michael. 2006. "Educating the 'Right' Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality." New York: Taylor & Francis, 14.], an invited symposium at the 2012 International Convention on Science,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Neoliberalism, Global Approach
Brown, Seth Earl; Macdonald, Doune – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: Vocational education in Australia and elsewhere has a history of being gendered and classed, thereby limiting the post-school options of students undertaking this form of study. Drawing on Foucauldian theory, the authors used Gore's eight techniques of power to examine the micro-functioning of power relations at two case sites.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Teacher Aides, Student Attitudes
Williams, Benjamin James; Hay, Peter James; Macdonald, Doune – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2011
Background: The outsourcing of health, sport and physical educational (HSPE) work has been a feature of physical education (PE) "futures talk" for over 20 years. However, HSPE work outsourcing has been the focus of little empirical research and only occasional commentary. That small amount of empirical research that has been conducted has been…
Descriptors: Expertise, Special Schools, Physical Education, Adventure Education
Hay, Peter J.; Macdonald, Doune – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2010
Background: Ability is a foundational concept in education. For example, one's perspective of the nature of ability influences how one conceives of the educability and achievement potential of students. However, ability has generally been under-theorised in physical education (PE), particularly in relation to gender. Moreover, default assumptions…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Gender Differences, Ability, Foreign Countries
Macdonald, Doune; Mitchell, Jane; Mayer, Diane – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: The widespread and diverse models of professional standards for teaching raise questions with respect to the need to provide teachers with a pathway for continuing professional development balanced with the public nature of surveillance and accountability that may accompany standards. Ways of understanding technologies of power in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Focus Groups, Program Effectiveness, Diaries
