Exploration and creation of meaningful teacher educator practises in physical education teacher education

Scanlon, Dylan, Beckey, Alex, Wintle, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-1195-4964 and Hordvik, Mats (2024) Exploration and creation of meaningful teacher educator practises in physical education teacher education. Sport, Education and Society. pp. 1-16. doi:10.1080/13573322.2024.2417782 (In Press)

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Abstract

This paper examines four teacher educators’ work practices which either perceive to enhance or diminish meaningfulness in physical education teacher education. Through a community of learners, we took a narrative inquiry approach and in particular, a storytelling approach (Chiu-Ching & Chan, 2009. Teaching and learning through narrative inquiry. In D. Tidwell, M. L. Heston, & L. M. Fitzgerald (Eds.), In Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice. Springer), to exploring, identifying, and examining meaningful teacher education practices. Stories (and elicited stories) were collected through recorded zoom meetings, critical discussions, and note taking. Collaborative data analysis resulted in three categories: (i) Ownership of practice as key to meaningful teacher educator practices; (ii) The influential interdependent relationships on the potential of meaningful teacher educator practices; and (iii) The power of reflection in learning from, and designing, meaningful teacher educator practices. We share considerations for other teacher educators in how they can strive towards developing meaningful teacher education practice, for example, we encourage teacher educators to engage in individual and collective reflection by being vulnerable.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Meaningful work; Teacher education; Physical education teacher education; Storytelling; Teacher educator practice
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV557 Sports L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science
Depositing User:	Charlotte Crutchlow
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2024 10:08
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 10:15
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14516

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