PEPRN Podcast

PEPRN Podcast

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PEPRN Podcast episodes

  • Episode 53 - Evidence of change or developing the evidence base.
    This week’s podcast builds on previous work and presents the findings from a review of research on sport education to argue that we have the evidence to support our desire to change. It argues that, ten years ago (nearly), we had enough evidence to show that this approach works. The question is: “is this enough evidence to encourage you to change?”
    10 min
  • Episode 52 - The impact of colonialism
    This week’s podcast explores how what we do and what physical activities we participate in are shaped by the culture in which we exist. While there are varying forms of activities, what is participated in is shaped by the dominant culture. In many cases, Britishness.
    8 min
  • Episode 51 - A sport education
    This week’s podcast explores the fundamental elements of the Sport Education model and talks about the key aspects of sport that helps people come back again and again. It isn’t just winning or scoring the winning goal or making the winning pass. Instead it is about affiliation and rivalry (would Bjorn Borg have been such a great player without the rivalry of John McEnroe?), about festivity and formal competition, and about fair play.
    10 min
  • Episode 50 - why #physed?
    This week’s podcast explores the idea why #physed and asks us to consider why we are ‘sporty’ and ‘active’ and why we want others to be. It asks us to consider the gap in expectation between physical education and sport and the gulf in popularity. It asks us to consider what #physed is and imagine what it might be.
    11 min
  • Episode 49 - Degrees of expertise
    This week’s podcast considers assessment of game performance. Building on the theme of Teaching Games for Understanding it encourages us to be critical about assessment tools and reflect on, if and how the assessment tools we use are really assessing game performance. Moreover, it asks us to consider whether our assessments are a true reflection of the learning that we are developing and promoting in lessons, and if so, do we need to change what and how we assess.
    10 min
  • Episode 48 - If-Then-Do
    This week’s podcast explores the idea of “if-then-do” knowledge and how it is developed in games. The ‘if’ is positioned to suggest that something has happened, the ‘then’ represents the decision-making process based on the event, and the ‘do’ is the action or executed skill. The podcast suggests that in thinking of the physical and cognitive relationship between events and actions we are able to see the social relationship inherent in games.
    12 min
  • Episode 47 - Dead Dogs
    This week’s podcast looks at the ways that we might start to notice and then challenge the ‘things’ that hide in plain sight under our noses. These things’ appear elusive and often go unseen and unchallenged and yet they are aspects of our lives and our practices that we might, perhaps, feel we should challenge and change if only we recognised that (a) they were there and (b) we should do something about them. The podcast concludes with a challenge - “ can you turn the camera on yourself and try get a sight of these ‘things’ and if you do what might you do with what you see?”
    11 min
  • Episode 46 - Getting purpose and process right
    This week’s podcast revisits a paper from the mid 1980s – one which owes in origins to work done in the late 60s and early 70s – and argues that we need to think about the purpose and process of movement. The simple idea of thinking “why are we moving?” (i.e. to what purpose?) then allows us to think about “how we are moving” (i.e. the process). In this way we don’t move in the same way for every activity but think of how to best achieve our aims. The podcast concludes by suggesting that, currently and historically, the process often comes before the purpose but by flipping the equation we might just end up with different results.
    10 min
  • Episode 45 - Purposeful silence and reflection
    This week’s Podcast looks at the idea that we need to stop once in a while least life pass us by. Drawing on work in outdoor education it argues that spiritual wellness is not just the responsibility of faith-type organisation but also of schools. It argues that this is a basic human need and yet it is not something that just happens and it needs to be planned for. Yet this is not a simple matter and through the use and development of a number of interrelated strategies it is possible to start thinking of spiritual wellness as being part of the curriculum.
    13 min
  • Episode 44 - Game On (for everyone)
    This week’s podcast looks at an expanded notion of the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) model and argues that we need to think differently about teaching. We need to move away from practices that see us focusing on the cognitive and psychomotor – the thinking and doing aspects of learning so to speak – and focus instead on the whole child. It suggest that we can do that, in games teaching, by allowing children to try different sports, by showing them representations of the game, by exaggerating different aspects of the game and by adjusting the tactical complexity of the game. In this way children get the enjoyment and understanding that they need to, hopefully, engage in and enjoy the games they play at school
    12 min

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