PEPRN Podcast

PEPRN Podcast

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PEPRN Podcast episodes

  • Episode 63 - Whose needs are being served?
    As parents, coaches, and teachers we’re often faced with a dilemma as to how much we encourage young people to follow certain pathways. This is particularly prevalent when young people show a high level of competence in a specific sport. How much should we encourage them to specialise? Could they become a professional? Should we send them for extra training? Should they miss school and fixtures to compete for county or even professional teams? By training will they miss out on social development with their friends? This blog might assist with some of the decision-making. It suggests that, until the age of 16, specialised training and structured training are not as advantageous as we might have been led to believe.
    5 min
  • Episode 62 - Teresa
    This week’s podcast explores the pedagogical case of Teresa. She is an eleven-year old daughter of legal Mexican immigrants. She is responsible for caring for her younger siblings while also being challenged by learning English as her new language. She knows that some of her teachers see her (and her friends) as a burden and a drain on the education system and feels that her needs are not being meet. In fact she knows that she is not valued and this is impacting on her approach to school.
    10 min
  • Episode 61 - Deshane
    This week’s podcast explores Deshane’s life and the conflicting things he witnesses on a daily basis. Loved and supported by his family and church he is also beset with crime and violence on a daily basis. We learn that his position as a black male has implication on what he can and can’t do, as does his impoverished upbringing. Finally we learn that trust, achievable goals and role models are three potential ways of making things better until such time as we achieve social justice.
    11 min
  • Episode 60 - Patrick
    This week’s podcast explores the case of Patrick, a seven year-old boy with autism. He is isolated from his peers and is caught up in the same movement patterns and habits. Exploring his autism through bio-psychomotor and adaptive physical education perspectives the podcast suggests a number of ways of helping Patrick to develop. It suggests that understanding and consistency can lead to significant improvements in both his approach to and engagement in physical activity.
    11 min
  • Episode 59 - Kate
    This week’s podcast explores the pedagogical case of Kate, a six year old who is doing well in most areas of school except when it comes to fine and gross motor skills. Looking through the lenses of motor development, and biomechanics we learn that Kate struggles in comparison to typically developing children. By focusing on her self-esteem, avoiding competitive situations, giving her more visual cues and by practicing whole body movements the podcast suggests that she can develop her motor skills.
    13 min
  • Episode 58 - Sophie – active but not physically
    This week’s podcast explores the case of Sophie and, through the lenses of physical activity, motor development, exercise physiology, and pedagogy, we learn how her daily life may or may not impact on her future. We will look at different research traditions and try to draw a single message from what we find in an effort to support students like Sophie to develop safely at home, school and in the community.
    12 min
  • Episode 57 - Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again
    This week’s podcast marks a change of direction (and a change of book) for the blog. Drawing on the twenty chapters (and nineteen cases studies) located in Kathy Armour’s edited “Pedagogical Cases” book the podcast explores the cases studies nineteen individual (and fictitious) students aged between 5 and 16. These young people, presented as “complex and dynamic young learners who deserve to be taught and coached by practitioners who draw on a wide range of multidisciplinary knowledge to devise appropriate) interdisciplinary learning encounters.” Over the subsequent nineteen weeks I will explore each of these cases again from a pedagogical perspective but this week I start with Kathy’s introduction to the idea of a pedagogical case.’
    11 min
  • Episode 56 - Change as a ‘belt and braces’ endeavour
    This week’s podcast looks at change not as a whim but as a journey. It argues that we (as human beings) give up on new ideas too quickly; perhaps because we head towards change without realising the effort it will take to begin it let alone to sustain it. The podcast, the last using papers from this four-volume book, argues that change is difficult and without recognition of this it’s unsurprising that we often fail to move forwards and instead stay just where we have always been.
    10 min
  • Episode 55 - Inferences and conclusions
    This week’s podcast highlights how we make inferences about particular situations. Indeed, it suggests, and in specific reference to gender, culture and race, that we make assumptions about girls in PE that may not be relevant to all girls. The podcast suggests that we take a ‘one-size’ fits all approach and allow our practices to reflect the dominant and overarching assumptions that exist about girls in PE.
    11 min
  • Episode 54 - Believing doesn’t make it real
    This week’s podcast considers the dominance of sport in the PE curriculum. It questions how this ‘one way’ of teaching and learning can promote health and physical activity. Indeed the podcast asks us to consider that if sport is the dominant approach, do students learn more about health outside of the PE classroom?
    10 min

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Blog Order (Podcast 1 in Blog 40)

40. J. Miller, K. Vine, and D. Larkin, ‘The Relationship of Product and Process Performance of the Two-Handed Sidearm Strike’, Physical…