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What is PE? (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2013)
Physical education is a socially constructed activity that forms one component of a wider physical culture that includes sport and health/physical activity (Kirk, 1999, Lake, 2001a: 69, Penney, 1998). The terms sport and ...
Assessment tools in primary physical education: enhancing teaching and learning
(afPE [Association for Physical Education], 2011)
Autonomy in education: implications for the institution and the subject.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
Like many other philosophers and educationalists, Durkheim and Habermas
understand education to have a political function. Education is understood as a
means to assure socioZpolitical stability ...
Shifting hegemony in a "man's world": incremental change for female golf professional employment (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2017-02-08)
There is much evidence to suggest that the golf environment is unequal in terms of gender. This study examines female golf professionals’ understanding of the barriers and opportunities to employment in the golf industry. ...
Women in golf: a critical reflection (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2017)
Effect of active lessons on physical activity, academic and health outcomes: A systematic review (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2017)
Purpose. To conduct a systematic review of classroom-based PA interventions which integrate academic content and assess the effectiveness of the interventions on PA, learning, facilitators of learning, and health outcomes. ...
Preliminary findings of Active Classrooms: An intervention to increase physical activity levels of primary school children during class time (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2015)
This study evaluates the effects of a behaviour change intervention, which encourages the integration of PA into the teaching of academic lessons, on PA levels of students. The main outcome is mean minutes of moderate-to-vigorous ...
Determinants of uptake and maintenance of active commuting to school (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2016)
The objective was to identify determinants of uptake and maintenance of active school travel (AST) over 4 years in children aged 9 at baseline. Data from wave 1 (n=8502) and 2 (n=7479) of the Growing Up in Ireland study ...
Rhetoric and reality: Examining the policy-practice interface of European and Irish arts policy (Pre-published version)
(EERA [European Educational Research Association], 2013)
This paper addresses European and Irish arts and cultural policy as both a form of ‘rhetoric’, or policy intention and ‘reality’, viewed as policy enactment. Taking a sociocultural view, social, economic, cultural and ...
Teacher educators’ perspectives on the implementation of Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education in Ireland: developing and regulating the profession? (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2013)
The physical education teacher education community in Ireland has developed Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education (BTSfPE) at the post-primary (secondary) level. This study explored teacher educators' perspectives ...