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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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O'Sullivan, Mary; Penney, Dawn – Sport, Education and Society, 2014
The article presents our response to some ideas presented by David Kirk in his 2012 Scholar Lecture to the Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Special Interest Group of the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference in September 2012. We seek to present an alternate view to one aspect of Kirk's argument which supports a view…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Education, Educational Researchers, Teacher Educators
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Enright, Eimear; O'Sullivan, Mary – Sport, Education and Society, 2012
Drawing on data from a three-year Participatory Action Research project, undertaken with 41 teenage girls within and beyond the boundaries of a designated disadvantaged urban school, this article is an effort to critique the use of participatory methods as a means of producing different knowledge, and producing knowledge differently with students.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Physical Education, Educational Research, Action Research
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MacPhail, Ann; Collier, Connie; O'Sullivan, Mary – Sport, Education and Society, 2009
This paper strives to provide an insight into the multifaceted relationships that young people have, examining the social, cultural and institutional discourses, which shape their lives. We set out to discuss, from an empirical poststructuralist perspective, the way in which Irish adolescents write about the reality of their lives and privilege…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Physical Activities, Popular Culture, Student Interests
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O'Sullivan, Mary – Sport, Education and Society, 2007
This manuscript attempts to unpack a number of issues around the phrase "quality research in physical education and sport pedagogy". The following questions serve as the frame for discussion: What is the purpose of research? What is good research and who says it is good? What do we hope to accomplish with research? Who do we serve with our…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Research, Researchers, Inquiry
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Hodge, Samuel; Ammah, Jonathon; Casebolt, Kevin; Lamaster, Kathryn; O'Sullivan, Mary – Sport, Education and Society, 2004
The purpose of this study was to describe the behaviors and beliefs of secondary general physical education (GPE) teachers relative to inclusion and teaching of students with disabilities. Participants were nine experienced high school GPE teachers from suburban school districts in California, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The research method was…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, High Schools, Physical Education, Educational Philosophy