This episode covers the basics of the Australian Curriculum for Physical Education. This forward thinking curriculum is unique and amazing! Dr. Laura Alfrey (Twitter: @LauraAlfrey) explains how this curriculum has been designed and what it aims to deliver. 

This episode links to Episode 23 which covers Dr. Alrey's co-authored paper that won the PESP paper of the year award in 2017 about implementing critical inquiry with teachers. 

Laura is a Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia, with her main responsibilities relating broadly to Health and Physical Education. Her research has inclusion and teacher professional learning as it's central threads. Recent publications have explored phenomena such as fitness testing as a context for learning, critical inquiry, and stereotypes in Physical Education.

Learn more about the Australian Curriculum from https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/health-and-physical-education/ 

This podcast discusses care experience youth (youth in foster care, group homes, shelters etc) and their value and use of leisure time activities. This paper pulls from Positive Youth Development (episode 19), and the social ecological model (theory breakdown 3). 

Tom is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education (PE) and Sport Pedagogy. His research explores the role of sport and PE for youth from socially vulnerable backgrounds, specific care experienced children and young people.

Following his PhD in 2011, Tom worked as the ‘Educational Review’ Post-doctoral Research Fellow, and later as a Lecturer in Sport, at the University of Birmingham. While completing his doctoral studies in August 2010, Tom was presented with the AIESEP Young Scholar Award at the AIESEP World Congress in La Coruna, Spain. Tom moved to Leeds in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.

You can follow Dr. Quarmby on twitter @DrTomQ

The cite:

Quarmby, T., Sandford, R., & Pickering, K. (2018). Care-experienced youth and positive development: an exploratory study into the value and use of leisure-time activities. Leisure Studies, 1-15.