An Investigation of pre-service teachers’ learning in physical education teacher education: Schools and university in partnership

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Herald, Frank
Waring, Michael
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This study explores the role of school and university partnership teams in the professional development of physical education (PE) pre-service teachers (PSTs) during their one year Postgraduate Certificate in Education course in England. The paper focuses on the key influences and processes that impacted on PST subject knowledge development. An interpretive methodology informed by constructivist grounded theory [Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis. London: Sage.] was adopted. This research highlights that the process of knowledge development in physical education teacher education (PETE) is socially constructed and complex. Much of the PSTs’ development was influenced by various communities of practice, particularly their school placements’ PE departments, but also their university-based learning community. Of these, the legitimised practices within the PE departments were found to be especially important to PSTs’ development. University-based learning was credited by PSTs with enhancing their holistic understanding of the learning process, developing those aspects of critical pedagogy that were under-developed in schools. This study identifies the capability of school/university partnerships to facilitate enhanced knowledge development in PETE. Taking into consideration the evolving nature of PETE within a political context that is progressively moving towards an entirely school-based model, an evidence-based debate over the manner and nature of the subject knowledge to be developed is needed.

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Sport, Education and Society

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28

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1

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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Sport, Education and Society, Volume 23, 2018 - Issue 1, Pages 95-107, 04 Jan 2016, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1127802

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Education systems

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Herald, F; Michael, W, An Investigation of pre-service teachers’ learning in physical education teacher education: Schools and university in partnership, Sport, Education and Society, 2018, 28 (1), pp. 95-107

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