Primary teachers, policy, and physical education

K Petrie, Lisahunter - European Physical Education Review, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This article focuses on the challenges arising for primary school teachers who have
responsibility for teaching physical education (PE) and who are working in particularly …

Teacher professional development: Who is the learner?

K Petrie, C McGee - Australian Journal of Teacher Education …, 2012 - search.informit.org
One of the challenges in in-service teacher education is how teachers can be given
professional development (PD) that enables them to respond to national curriculum and …

Working towards inclusive physical education in a primary school:'some days I just don't get it right'

K Petrie, J Devcich, H Fitzgerald - Physical Education and Sport …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background: In Aotearoa New Zealand, as it is internationally, there is a desire
to ensure physical education is inclusive of all students regardless of their abilities. Yet …

Health and physical education in Aotearoa New Zealand: an open market and open doors?

K Petrie, D Penney, S Fellows - Asia-Pacific Journal of Health …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Internationally, recent research has indicated that the health and physical education (HPE)
curriculum has become at least to some extent 'an open market', with rapid growth in the …

Creating confident, motivated teachers of physical education in primary schools

K Petrie - European Physical Education Review, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper analyses the impact of a nationwide one-year physical education (PE)
professional development (PD) programme on 25 generalist classroom teachers from 10 …

The jagged edge and the changing shape of health and physical education in Aotearoa New Zealand

CC Pope - Physical education and sport pedagogy, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Primary Objective: This paper critically examines the influence neoliberalism has had on
education in general and health and physical education (HPE) in particular in Aotearoa New …

Teaching processes in elementary physical education classes taught by specialists and nonspecialists

P Constantinides, R Montalvo, S Silverman - Teaching and Teacher …, 2013 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to compare teaching processes in fourth grade elementary
physical education classes taught by specialists and nonspecialists (N= 20). Physical …

Architectures of practice: Constraining or enabling PE in primary schools

K Petrie - Education 3-13, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
To the outside observer, physical education in many primary schools, both in Aotearoa New
Zealand and internationally, continues be practised in ways that students of the 1970s would …

Teachers' talk about health, self and the student 'body'

L Burrows, J McCormack - Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Adrienne Rich's phrase 'the personal is the political'is well-worn in feminist literature. In a
context where health imperatives are deeply embedded in school cultures and …

Olympic/ism Education: Does it have a place in Physical Education?

KC Petrie - 2017 - researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz
Founder of the modern Olympic Movement Pierre de Coubertin espoused the educational
value of sport and the centrality of pedagogy in “building a peaceful and better …