Abstract
Purpose: To explore a teacher educator professional learning opportunity within the context of a taught unit of work at a government primary school in Canberra, Australia’s national capital. The unit of work focus was a traditional Australian Aboriginal game taught using a Game Sense Approach to deliver a socially just version of quality physical education. Method: A qualitative self-study methodology was adopted where the participants were Author 1 and 49 Year 5 students (aged 10–11 years). Results: Game Sense Approach was found to be an effective professional learning opportunity for Author 1, while Author 2’s knowledge about Indigenous perspectives in physical education was extended. In addition, student participants valued the taught lessons, which highlighted issues of social justice. Discussion/Conclusion: It is possible for the self-study approach described here and seemingly incompatible epistemological approaches to work together to realize a socially just version of quality physical education that can inform physical education teaching beyond this study.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 176-185 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | JOURNAL OF TEACHING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | Sept 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Indigenous
- quality
- physical education
- self-study
- Self-study
- Quality physical education