This is a cross-over episode with The Meaningful Physical Education Podcasts.

We are discussing the use of podcasts in PE and in professional development. The other podcast that is hosted is fairly new and REALLY good. You can find more information on how to listen to it below:

You can find more episodes here: ⁠Apple Podcasts ⁠

Here is the website: https://meaningfulpodcastexperience.buzzsprout.com/2358344/episodes

And here is the purpose and goals of the podcast:

Our purpose is to engage in conversations with those enacting Meaningful Physical Education (research, practice and everything in between). Part of the LAMPE (learning about MPE) project, our goals for the podcast are as follows.1) Through conversation and discussion, explore the whys, hows and whats of Meaningful PE in a variety of contexts.

2) Seek to understand the underpinnings and outcomes of prioritizing meaningful experiences in physical education. 

3) Share a variety of perspectives on the theory and practice of Meaningful PE for growth and learning. 

4) Help ensure that the evolving framework for Meaningful PE is accessible, available and adaptable.

This is the third Australian Article Club.

It covers the following article:

Nyberg, G., Backman, E., & Tinning, R. (2022). Moving online in physical education teacher education. Sport, Education and Society, 29(3), 358–370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2142776

In this article the authors discuss the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic created for preservice teachers’ knowledge in and about movement and their developing movement capability in PETE in a Swedish University. In a way, covid potentially accelerated the process of a Physical Education degree transitioning to fully online. We discuss why this continues in some universities and the factors that contribute to it. We also discuss some of the effects we think it is having on graduate teachers and ultimately the effect it may have on students – all because the PE community and others do not value the 3 dimensions of Arnold’s model equally.

The second Australian Article Club takes on outsourcing in PE.

In Australia and NZ, particularly in primary schools (years prep-6) pe is increasingly being taught by outside providers who usually are not pe trained teachers. The syllabus or curriculum in P-6 expects that a classroom generalist teacher can teach PE. It is only in the Australian states of Queensland and Tasmania that specialists trained primary PE teachers are used. 

Title of article is in link below: “Should primary school PE be outsourced? An analysis of students’ perspectives by Deng et al., 2023.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/25742981.2022.2140594

This is a new podcast about meaningful PE and I wanted to share it in the @theHPEpodcast feed.

You can find more episodes here: Apple Podcasts

Here is the website: https://meaningfulpodcastexperience.buzzsprout.com/2358344/episodes

And here is the purpose and goals of the podcast:

Our purpose is to engage in conversations with those enacting Meaningful Physical Education (research, practice and everything in between). Part of the LAMPE (learning about MPE) project, our goals for the podcast are as follows.
1) Through conversation and discussion, explore the whys, hows and whats of Meaningful PE in a variety of contexts.

2) Seek to understand the underpinnings and outcomes of prioritizing meaningful experiences in physical education. 

3) Share a variety of perspectives on the theory and practice of Meaningful PE for growth and learning. 

4) Help ensure that the evolving framework for Meaningful PE is accessible, available and adaptable.

For over 30 years in the Australian state of Queensland, a final grade for physical education (in years 11 and 12) was given based on 50% theory and 50% practical, valuing movement and knowledge equally. This article was written in response to changes in a syllabus in the Australian state of Queensland in 2019 which awarded a final mark based on 82% theory and 18% practical or movement. Despite this unequal valuing of movement, the syllabus cites Arnold’s perspective as ‘a philosophical and educative framework to promote deep learning in three dimensions: about, through and in movement contexts’ (QCAA, 2018, p.1). Based on the syllabus citing Arnold’s philosophy it is reasoned these principles (valuing knowledge and movement equally) will be evident throughout this Australian state syllabus. Confusingly, they were not.

SueSee, B., Pill, S., & Williams, J. (2023). Arnold wanted X but we got Y – the Queensland senior physical education syllabus application of the Arnoldian perspective. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2023.2269955

This is the audio from the September 2025 AERA SIG 93 webinar about the new SHAPE America Standards. It is hosted by Chair Cory Dixon and the two guests are: Dr. Clancy Seymore and Langston Clark (both writers of the new standards)

This episode features the scholar lecture for BERA which is the British Educational Research Association. Within BERA there is a PESP SIG (phys ed and sport pedagogy). Each

Thanks to Ellen Li for the recording!

This podcast introduces the AIESEP 2025 conference in St.

The call for proposals closes September 15th,

You can find information on the conference website https://www.aiesepstpete2025.com/home

You can register to be a member at www.aiesep.org (annual registrations renew January 1st of each year).

You can follow updates and travel information on the AIESEP

Naomi Harte from Loughborough University, UK, joins to discuss the article The if, why and how of fitness testing

Full Cite: Harte, N. P. A.,

Twitter/X:

Naomi: @harte_naomi18

Laura Alfrey: @LauraAlfrey

Additional podcast episode on fitness testing: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pwrhpe/episodes/281-Student-voice-and-transforming-traditional-fitness-testing-wLaura-Alfrey-e20spob/a-a9hl20e

Dr. Lauren Wheeler is a physical education teacher with the US Department of Defense, stationed in Germany. She has been a finalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year due in part to her popular “Physically Healthy At That (PHAT)” program developed in collaboration with military partners to improve fitness outcomes for high school students. Dr. Wheeler completed her Doctorate of Education degree at the University of Pittsburgh and has published and presented at the American College of Sports Medicine. In this episode, Dr. Wheeler discusses her dissertation titled “Overcoming Trauma with Physical Activity: Implementing Edutainment within a High School Physical Education Class.”