Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education

Apr 08 2025 386 ep. 43 mins 125

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We discuss research, theory and current issues in the fields of health and physical education in an easy to understand way. Our aim is to make research accessible to educators and university students from all over the globe.

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366: Two Toolkits to help Teacher Educators (from Limerick)

Apr 08 2025 29 mins

Our colleagues from University of Limerick share two amazing resources with you that are 100% free and aimed to help teacher educators. We will talk about the Justice ED and SATLE projects and share these awesome Toolkits that have been created. Below are the website links to the projects and the links to the Toolkits. Justice Ed: https://www.ul.ie/justice-ed-education-for-global-j

365:PETE Collaborative Town Hall

Mar 31 2025 60 mins

This is the audio from the 28th of March, 2025 PETE Collaborative that was hosted to discuss critical issues in the PETE field, notably the future directions of the SHAPE America Research Council. Over 100 PETE scholars attended live.

364: The Finnish Model for Leisure Activities

Mar 30 2025 17 mins

This is a 15min presentation about my research on the Finnish Model for Leisure Activities. It was given at the Fulbright Education Forum March 26th, 2025 hosted by the Fulbright Finland Foundation which also has sponsored my stay in Finland this year to conduct the research.The study is also supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture here in Finland and the University of A

363: Australian Article Club 5: Why don’t you really learn anything in PEH?

Mar 30 2025 67 mins

This article club discusses Swedish researchers who asked secondary school students/Gymnasium to discuss their perceptions of HPE through their assessment experiences. Some interesting but not surprising perceptions were shared, and as is true for the Australian Article Club... good discussion was had! Here is the link to the article and the citation: Modell, N., & Gerdin, G. (

362: How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship

Mar 25 2025 32 mins

Today, we’re discussing the article ‘How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review. This was recently published in PESP and came up in discussion during Ash Casey’s scholar lecture at BERA. You can find that lecture in episode 350Full Cite: Fjellner, R. L., Varea, V., & Barker, D. (2024). How physical education teachers are positio

361: "What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions".

Mar 07 2025 42 mins

Dean Barker and Hakan Larsson join me to discuss their latest article in Sport Education and Society titled: "What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions". This is an open access article that covers issues in publishing and research in the field. To cite this article: D. Barker, J.-E. Ekberg, G. Nyberg & H. Larsson

360: Australian Article Club 4: The suffering of students in physical education.

Mar 03 2025 75 mins

This is the 4th Article club with Brendan SueSee, Michael Davies, and Dave Robinson. The article they discussed was:Sarah Metz, Benjamin Zander & Ina Hunger (09 May 2024): The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2024.2352825 This paper captured a wide range o

359: Introducing the Social Justice SIG at AIESEP

Feb 27 2025 57 mins

This is an AIESEP Connect session that is hosted by the new Social Justice SIG in AIESEP. You can find all about the special interest groups of AIESEP here https://aiesep.org/special-interest-groups/ Our 2025 conference is in St. Petersburg Florida We will be in Australia for a specialist seminar at the end of the year and in 2026 our world congress will be held in Taipei.

358: AERA Special Interest Group 93 Info Session

Feb 02 2025 58 mins

This is an informational session of AERA SIG 93 It was recorded in January 2025 and was meant to provide knowledge on the SIG history, where we are now, and where we are going; the unique networking and benefits of the SIG; the importance of SIG membership and its impact on the future of the SIG If you publish research in the field of physical education you should really check out

357: Australian Article Club 3: Inclusion Style, student autonomy and responsibility.

Jan 30 2025 69 mins

Our Australian colleagues chose a book chapter by the great Mark Byra from the University of Wyoming for their third article club. The chapter is titled “Inclusion style of teaching, student autonomy and responsibility” and this is in a book called the Spectrum of teaching styles in physical education.