PEPRN Podcast

PEPRN Podcast

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PEPRN Podcast episodes

  • Episode 23
    This week’s blog explores aesthetics and embodied learning and blows the lid off the can that suggest that aesthetics is only about dance. It asks what would happen if we thought more about the feeling of movement and less about the technical accuracy of a movement and concludes by suggesting that this might be a great way of considering learning in physical education and physical activity.
    11 min
  • Episode 22
    This week’s podcast looks at skill acquisition and skill analysis as two sides of the same coin that need to be developed. Skill acquisition is vital in the development of self-confidence and engagement in physical activity. However, without the input of those with the ability to analyse and feedback on skills it is much harder for individuals to develop. Therefore, we must aspire as educators to position ourselves in such a way that we can help all our students to develop.
    58 min
  • Episode 21
    This episode explores the notion of socialisation and asks how much of what occurred to an individual, both before and during a career as a teacher, impacts on the decisions that they make and the practices they hold dear. Drawing on a seminal paper in this field the blog asks us to consider the multiple forms of socialisation that shape and meld the teachers that we eventually become. Furthermore it asks us to be more aware of the different (and ongoing) ways that people learn to be teachers.
    15 min
  • Episode 20
    This episode looks at the idea of 'good pedagogy' and acknowledges that complacency and an indomitable attitude towards pedagogy (i.e. my way IS best) is not a move towards progression and development. Instead we need to see alternatives and continue to evolve and develop the way in which we help students learn.
    13 min
  • Episode 19
    This podcast asks if, in aspiring for pedagogical change, we need to be more aware of what we can (and should change) and what is too firmly imbedded in the practices of the department, school, or subject area to tackle at present. That is not to say that change shouldn't happen (in my opinion it must) but that we should remember that Rome wasn't built in a day.
    13 min
  • Episode 18
    This podcast explores a paper from nearly 40 years ago and asks if things have really changed at all. Taking some of the messages from the heart of the paper the podcast considers what the role of the PE teacher is (a) to educate or (b) to install discipline and win inter school fixtures and district trophies and competitions? Where the world has changed noticeably the podcast asks if the PE teacher had or if he or she still cuts a familiar figure in our schools.
    13 min
  • Episode 17
    This podcast asks if we (as a collection of physical educators) have a pack mentality when it comes to the practices of our subject. It asks if the perceptions of the many is stronger than the ideologies of the few and this is why change has been so hard to come by. It asks you to consider how the combined might of other influences the global notion of PE and leaves it unchallenged and unchanged.
    13 min
  • Episode 16
    Podcast 16 explores the idea that students learn to play the game of being a student. By employing studentship tactics they learn how to best navigate both the courses they take and their teachers themselves. It suggests that as a consequence they learn what they think we think is important rather than what might best serve them in the future.
    13 min
  • Episode 15
    This episode looks at the different ways that we can see lessons and learning. Is asks if we are too ready to accept that, in teaching, we get what we plan for and that students learn exactly what we want them to learn.
    13 min
  • Episode 13
    This week's blog asks what we believe about PE and how resistant those beliefs have been to change. It suggests that once we get an idea in our heads it is hard to shift and this is just the case with pre-service teachers. They come into teacher education with firm beliefs about what they think a god teacher is and what good teaching is and these beliefs are hard to shift. The podcast asks how we might better position ourselves to help pre-service teachers see that there are alternatives.
    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…