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Workplace Learning in Physical Education

By lisahunter, Richard Tinning, Tony Rossi, Erin Flanagan, Doune Macdonald

Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge – 240 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

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Description

Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from the experiences of pre-service and beginning teachers, the book takes a closer look at how professional knowledge is developed, investigating the notions of ‘professional’ and ‘workplace learning’ and examining the literature associated with ‘teacher practicum’, ‘fieldwork’ and ‘school experience’.

The book is structured around five significant dimensions of workplace learning:

  • space and place for, and of, learning

  • identity, subjectivities and the profession/al

  • social tasks of teaching and learning to teach

  • performance, practice and praxis

  • what works in practice?

As well as identifying important implications for policy, practice and research methodology in physical education and teacher education, the book also shows how research can be a powerful medium for the communication of good practice. This is an important book for all student, pre-service and beginning teachers working in physical education, and for anybody with an interest in the wider themes of teacher education and professional practice.

Contents

Part A 1. Introduction 2. Defining the Subject: The Profession/al and Workplace Learning 3. The Backstory: An Evolutionary Process in Researching Professional Learning 4. Significant Dimensions of Workplace Learning Part B: Dimensions in Workplace Practice 5. Space and Place for/of Learning 6. Identity/Subjectivities and the Profession/al 7. Social Tasks of (Pre-Service) Teaching and Learning to Teach 8. Performance, Practice and Praxis 9. What Works in Practice? PART C: Tensions in the Workplace and Workplace Learning Research 10. Healthy Workplaces 11. Place, Space and New Workers 12. Methodologies of Workplace Learning 13. Policy Implications 14. The Future of Physical Education Teacher Education, Workplace Learning, and the PE Profession

Name: Workplace Learning in Physical Education (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By lisahunter, Richard Tinning, Tony Rossi, Erin Flanagan, Doune Macdonald. Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional...
Categories: Primary Physical Education, Teachers & Teacher Education, Secondary Physical Education, Continuing Professional Development, Teaching & Learning, Physical Education, Physical Education, Sport Education