Best Playing with Research in Health and Physical Education Podcasts (2025)

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380: Teaching with AI (a book club) 1:02:11

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In this episode of the AI Book Club, Risto Marttinen from George Mason University is joined by Dr. Erin Centeio (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) and Dr. Sara Flory (University of South Florida) for a rich discussion on the book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. The convers…

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379: Aussie Book Club Spectrum of Teaching Style part deux 1:19:08

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In this months Aussie Bookclub we discuss the production cluster styles from the Spectrum of teaching styles. WE define the style, talk about our perceived pros and cons, where it fits with Australian National Curriculum, when we have used it with sports coaching and common mistakes/challenges for first time users. This is Part 2 of a podcast as we…

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378: Bridging Research and Practice in Physical Education: A Conversation with Dr. Aaron Beighle 50:47

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Risto and Aaron discuss a wide range of issues such as publication, working with teachers, international education, and the state of the field. Aaron Beighle is a professor at the University of Kentucky and is the co-author of elementary and secondary PE methods books as well as a prolific scholar with over 11,000 citations of his work, that he cla…

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377: PE teachers’ acceptance and use of a fitness-based software (PLT4M) 44:56

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Risto is joined by Dr. Sean Fullerton from Towson University to discuss a recent article in JTPE that covers teachers acceptance and use of a fitness based software, specifically PLT4M Here is the full cite to the article: Fullerton, S. A., Gaudreault, K. L., Simonton, K. L., Shiver, V. N., & Kravitz, L. (2025). Physical Education Teachers’ Accepta…

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376: Theory Breakdown The Universal Theory of Acceptance and use of Technology (UTAUT) 7:36

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This is a theory breakdown episode of the universal theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). It is recorded by Sean Fullerton and is a companion podcast to episode 377 in which he describes research on PE teachers acceptance and use of fitness based technologies where he employed this theory…

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375: AIESEP PhD Summer School 35:04

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This episode covers (in detail) everything you need to know about the PhD summer school held in Taiwan in June 2026 For details on the funding announcement see the blog post https://aiesep.org/aiesep-announces-landmark-10-year-partnership-with-spectrum-institute-for-teaching-and-learning/ You can find the link to apply here https://www.dropbox.com/…

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374: What article most influenced you? 53:12

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Risto is joined by a group of colleagues to discuss one article that we feel has been most influential on our current or past research. We're talking about articles that have had a profound impact on where our research went and discuss a little about the back story from each. Here are the APA citations of the articles if you want to look them up: R…

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373: Aussie Book Club The Spectrum of Teaching Styles – Reproduction Cluster Styles. 1:24:48

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The Aussie Book Club takes on the Spectrum of Teaching Styles, well half of it at first...they talk about pros and cons of styles A-E, Where it can be used in Australian Curriculum, Where we have used it in sport coaching Common mistakes/errors for first time users Next month is “The Production Cluster Styles F-K…

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372: AIESEP Connect Signature Pedagogies 56:44

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This is the audio from the June 2025 AIESEP Connect on Signature Pedagogies.

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371: Aussie Book Club Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work 1:02:41

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This is the July episode of the Aussie Book Club where our Australian colleagues discuss one article in depth once a month. This month the article discussed is below: Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J., & Clark, R. E. (2006). Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Ex…

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370: Aussie Book Club What’s Right in PE? 1:11:48

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This is the next issue of the Australian Book Club. This week the Aussie “blokes” talk about “what’s wright in PE” Here is a synopisis. Exploring positive narratives in physical education (PE) involves recognizing and highlighting the valuable contributions and positive impacts of PE programs. This includes understanding PE's purpose, its connectio…

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369: Harrastamisen Suomen Mallin Tutkimus: Alustavat Tulokset 54:18

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If you don’t understand Finnish then this episode is going to be really confusing. This is a recording of a Keynote lecture (in Finnish) that I gave in Jyväskylä on May 14th 2025 about the Finnish Model for Leisure Activities. Here is a link to the slides (in Finnish) I just ask that you please not use them in any form or share them in any form out…

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368: AIESEP Connect Exploring Digital Learning 58:21

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This is the audio from the AIESEP Connect (an online session put on by AIESEP to share research) from May 2025, and is the first by the Technology SIG May 2025 – #AIESEPConnect #CoffeeWithColleagues Modalities and Pedagogies Exploring Digital Learning Across In-Person, Hybrid, and Remote Physical Education Contexts with Julia Sargent, Ove Østerlie,…

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367: Aussie Book Club 6: Developing the practising model in physical education 1:13:10

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This is the 6th Australian Book Club. The speakers are Brendan SueSee, Michael Davies, and Dave Robinson Synopsis/Background Most Pedagogical or curriculum models in physical education (PE) focus on various content like health, game tactics, sport cultures, and expression. The Practising model has no content as the student generates the content thr…

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366: Two Toolkits to help Teacher Educators (from Limerick) 29:16

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Our colleagues from University of Limerick share two amazing resources with you that are 100% free and aimed to help teacher educators. We will talk about the Justice ED and SATLE projects and share these awesome Toolkits that have been created. Below are the website links to the projects and the links to the Toolkits. Justice Ed: https://www.ul.ie…

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365:PETE Collaborative Town Hall 1:00:46

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This is the audio from the 28th of March, 2025 PETE Collaborative that was hosted to discuss critical issues in the PETE field, notably the future directions of the SHAPE America Research Council. Over 100 PETE scholars attended live.

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364: The Finnish Model for Leisure Activities 17:21

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This is a 15min presentation about my research on the Finnish Model for Leisure Activities. It was given at the Fulbright Education Forum March 26th, 2025 hosted by the Fulbright Finland Foundation which also has sponsored my stay in Finland this year to conduct the research. The study is also supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture here…

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363: Australian Article Club 5: Why don’t you really learn anything in PEH? 1:07:53

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This article club discusses Swedish researchers who asked secondary school students/Gymnasium to discuss their perceptions of HPE through their assessment experiences. Some interesting but not surprising perceptions were shared, and as is true for the Australian Article Club... good discussion was had! Here is the link to the article and the citati…

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362: How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship 32:00

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Today, we’re discussing the article ‘How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review. This was recently published in PESP and came up in discussion during Ash Casey’s scholar lecture at BERA. You can find that lecture in episode 350 Full Cite: Fjellner, R. L., Varea, V., & Barker, D. (2024). How physical educa…

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361: "What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions". 42:52

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Dean Barker and Hakan Larsson join me to discuss their latest article in Sport Education and Society titled: "What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions". This is an open access article that covers issues in publishing and research in the field. To cite this article: D. Barker, J.-E. Ekberg, G.…

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360: Australian Article Club 4: The suffering of students in physical education. 1:15:45

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This is the 4th Article club with Brendan SueSee, Michael Davies, and Dave Robinson. The article they discussed was: Sarah Metz, Benjamin Zander & Ina Hunger (09 May 2024): The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2024.2352825 Thi…

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359: Introducing the Social Justice SIG at AIESEP 57:58

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This is an AIESEP Connect session that is hosted by the new Social Justice SIG in AIESEP. You can find all about the special interest groups of AIESEP here https://aiesep.org/special-interest-groups/ Our 2025 conference is in St. Petersburg Florida We will be in Australia for a specialist seminar at the end of the year and in 2026 our world congres…

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358: AERA Special Interest Group 93 Info Session 58:55

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This is an informational session of AERA SIG 93 It was recorded in January 2025 and was meant to provide knowledge on the SIG history, where we are now, and where we are going; the unique networking and benefits of the SIG; the importance of SIG membership and its impact on the future of the SIG If you publish research in the field of physical educ…

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357: Australian Article Club 3: Inclusion Style, student autonomy and responsibility. 1:09:09

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Our Australian colleagues chose a book chapter by the great Mark Byra from the University of Wyoming for their third article club. The chapter is titled “Inclusion style of teaching, studentautonomy and responsibility” and this is in a book called the Spectrum of teaching styles in physical education.…

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356: A podcast about podcasts, dare we say a meta podcast? 44:27

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This is a cross-over episode with The Meaningful Physical Education Podcasts. We are discussing the use of podcasts in PE and in professional development. The other podcast that is hosted is fairly new and REALLY good. You can find more information on how to listen to it below: You can find more episodes here: ⁠Apple Podcasts ⁠ Here is the website:…

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355: Moving online in physical education teacher education Australian Article Club 3 1:13:27

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This is the third Australian Article Club. It covers the following article: Nyberg, G., Backman, E., & Tinning, R. (2022). Moving online in physical education teacher education. Sport, Education and Society, 29(3), 358–370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2142776 In this article the authors discuss the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic cr…

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354: Should primary school PE be outsourced? Australian Article Club 2 1:03:18

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The second Australian Article Club takes on outsourcing in PE. In Australia and NZ, particularly in primary schools (years prep-6) pe is increasingly being taught by outside providers who usually are not pe trained teachers. The syllabus or curriculum in P-6 expects that a classroom generalist teacher can teach PE. It is only in the Australian stat…

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353: The Meaningful Podcast Experience Episode 1 44:12

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This is a new podcast about meaningful PE and I wanted to share it in the @theHPEpodcast feed. You can find more episodes here: Apple Podcasts Here is the website: https://meaningfulpodcastexperience.buzzsprout.com/2358344/episodes And here is the purpose and goals of the podcast: Our purpose is to engage in conversations with those enacting Meanin…

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352: Australian Article Club 1 "Arnold wanted X but we got Y" 1:09:46

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For over 30 years in the Australian state of Queensland, a final grade for physical education (in years 11 and 12) was given based on 50% theory and 50% practical, valuing movement and knowledge equally. This article was written in response to changes in a syllabus in the Australian state of Queensland in 2019 which awarded a final mark based on 82…

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351: The new SHAPE Standards (AERA SIG 93 webinar) 1:05:23

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This is the audio from the September 2025 AERA SIG 93 webinar about the new SHAPE America Standards. It is hosted by Chair Cory Dixon and the two guests are: Dr. Clancy Seymore and Langston Clark (both writers of the new standards)

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350: BERA Scholar Lecture 2024: Dr. Ash Casey 40:50

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This episode features the scholar lecture for BERA which is the British Educational Research Association. Within BERA there is a PESP SIG (phys ed and sport pedagogy). Eachyear, leading up to the wider BERA conference, they have a full day invisible college that features the scholar lecture. This year’s scholar lecture was given by Dr. Ash Casey fr…

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349: AIESEP 2025 Conference in Florida (all you need to know!) 46:14

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This podcast introduces the AIESEP 2025 conference in St.Petersburg Florida. It will take place May 18-22nd (18this a full pre-conference day and the 22nd will have the banquet at night). The call for proposals closes September 15th,2024. Notifications will be sent out by December 15th. Here is a link to the abstract submission https://www.aiesepst…

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348: The if, why and how of fitness testing in secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom 25:26

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Naomi Harte from Loughborough University, UK, joins to discuss the article The if, why and how of fitness testingin secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom published with Laura Alfrey, Christopher Spray, and Lorraine Cale. We discuss teachers’ learning intentions, pedagogical practices, and attitudes towards fitnesstesting. Full C…

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Dissertation Dive 16: “Overcoming Trauma with Physical Activity: Implementing Edutainment within a High School Physical Education Class.” 29:19

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Dr. Lauren Wheeler is a physical education teacher with the US Department of Defense, stationed in Germany. She has been a finalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year due in part to her popular “Physically Healthy At That (PHAT)” program developed in collaboration with military partners to improve fitness outcomes for high school students. Dr. Wheel…

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Dissertation Dive 15: "Physical Education Teacher Education Futures." 43:32

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Dr. Jamie Brunsdon is a third year Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy at the University of Memphis. Prior to moving to the University of Alabama in2018 to complete his doctoral degree, Jamie was a full and part-time physical education in England. His research interests include studying teacher and faculty socialization and…

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347: AERA Catherine Ennis SIG 93 Scholar Award Lecture: Kevin Andrew Richards 45:12

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This is the audio recording of the 2024 Catherine D. Ennis SIG Scholar Lecture. It is the highest honor awarded in the SIG and is named for a long-time SIG member Cathy Ennis who passed away in 2017. This year's recipient is Dr. Kevin Andrew Richards (University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign) and he is introduced by his mentor and past dissertation…

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Dissertation Dive 14:"Basic Psychological Needs, Affect, and Motivation Among Elementary Students in a Physical Activity-Based Wellness Program." 46:29

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In this episode, Dr. Shelby Ison discusses the dissertation titled "Basic Psychological Needs, Affect, and Motivation Among Elementary Students in a Physical Activity-Based Wellness Program." Dr. Shelby Ison is visiting assistantprofessor at Northern Illinois University. Her primary research interests include understanding K-12 students' psychologi…

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Dissertation Dive 13: "Examining Online Learning in K–12 Online Physical Education and Physical Education Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic" 37:29

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In this episode, Dr. Brandon Foye discusses his dissertation titled "Examining Online Learning in K–12 Online Physical Education and Physical Education Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic". Following an 11-year career as a middle and high school physical education teacher, Dr. Foye enrolled in a doctoral program at Boston University. Aft…

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Dissertation Dive 12: "Exploring Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education and Classroom Settings at a Rural Elementary School" 36:21

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Dr. Seunghyun Baek is an Assistant Professor in the Physical Education department at SUNY Cortland. Seunghyun completed her Ph.D. in Kinesiology at University of NorthCarolina at Greensboro in 2023 with Dr. Ben Dyson. She taught and worked with diverse student populations in the U.S. and South Korea, especially focused on Social and Emotional Learn…

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Dissertation Dive 11: "Looking Inward: Does Physical Activity Promotion Training Transfer Beyond PETE?" 49:15

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In this episode, Dr. Shannon Mulhearn discusses her dissertation titled "Looking Inward: Does Physical Activity Promotion Training Transfer Beyond PETE?" Wellness promotion is the overarching theme that ties together Dr. Mulhearn’s body of work. Her current research focuses on innovative techniques of building resiliency in various areas of educati…

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Dissertation Dive 10:"Culturally Relevant Physcial Education for Optimizing Physical Activity Opportunities." Dr. Imagbe 47:29

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In this episode, Dr. Stacey Imagbe discusses her dissertation titled "Culturally Relevant Physcial Education for Optimizing Physical Activity Opportunities." Dr. Imagbe serves as a first-year assistant professor on a tenure track at Morehouse College, specifically within the Department of Kinesiology, Sports Studies, and Physical Education. Her pri…

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339: Even with the craziness, it worked’: PE teachers working in and with an Activist Approach 37:21

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Today we discuss the article ‘Even with the craziness, it worked’: PE teachers working in and with an ActivistApproach. We discuss the perceptions of physical education teachers learning to work in and with an activist approach in theirclassroom. Full Cite: Shilcutt, J. B., Oliver, K. L., Aranda, R., Mullany, P., Ryan, M., & True, L. (2023). ‘Even …

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Dissertation Dive 9: "Exploring the Influence of U.S. High School Athletes’ Perceptions of Their Coach’s Communication on Constructs of Their Sport-Related Well-Being." 54:13

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Dr. Obi Atkinson is an Assistant Professor in the Physical Education Department at SUNY Cortland. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Dr. Atkinson recently completed his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Sport Pedagogy. Hisresearch interests focus on variables and social agents that influence developmental outcomes for youth. Specifically, Dr. A…

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Dissertation Dive 8: "Physical Education Teacher Education Students' Perceptions of Physical Education." 30:10

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Dr. Margaret Hemstrought is assistant professor of physical education, exercise & wellness studies at Utica University. She completed here Doctorate of Education degree at Northeastern University with a concentration in curriculum, teaching, learning, and leadership. She has an MS degree from SUNY Cortland and a BS degree from Springfield College. …

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Dissertation Dive 7: An Appreciative Approach to Studying Wash-out During Professional Socialization: Washed Out or Never Washed In? A Case Study Examining Washout in Professional Socialization." 28:46

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Dr. Chris Mellor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health of Sport Sciences at Adelphi University. He studies teacher socialization and the impact of washout on formal training. He is also passionate about the Spectrum of Teaching Styles, elementary methods, and supporting his students in fieldwork placements. In this episode, Dr. Mell…

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Dissertation Dive 6: "Developing Resilience and Enhancing Appraisals of Mattering Among Elementary Level, Non-Core Subject Teachers: Project DREAM." Dr. Pennington 43:02

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Dr. Shannon Pennington is the Lead Teacher at the DREAM Academy in School District U-46, Elgin, IL. Dr. Pennington's doctoral studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign centered around trauma and its impact on student learning as well as social and emotional learning and support for teachers of marginalized subjects (e.g., art, music, p…

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Dissertation Dive 5: "Meeting Diverse Student Needs: An Examination of a Physical Education Teacher Alumnus’ Culturally Responsive Teaching Beliefs and Their Enactment" Dr. Nieman 42:43

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This episode features the dissertation titled "Meeting Diverse Student Needs: An Examination of a Physical Education Teacher Alumnus’ Culturally Responsive Teaching Beliefs and Their Enactment" by Dr. Craigory Nieman. Dr. Nieman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in Physical Education at the University of South Florida. He received his …

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Dissertation Dive 4: "Physical Education: Class Climate and Adolescent Girls’ Physical Activity" Dr. Mueller 33:15

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Dr. Misti Mueller brings 18 years of public school teaching experience to her associate professor role at the VCU School of Education. She was selected as the Virginia Middle School Physical Educator of the Year in 2004, and more recently, as the state’s College/University Physical Educator of the Year. She has presented at the national, state and …

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Dissertation Dive 3: "Survey Development Examining the Association of Socialization and Physical Educator CSPAP Involvement" Dr. Merica 39:34

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Dr. Chris Merica discusses his dissertation titled "Survey Development Examining the Association of Socialization and Physical Educator CSPAP Involvement". Dr. Merica is assistant professor of at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He received his BS and PhD degrees from the University of Idaho and has previously coached several high sc…

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Dissertation Dive 2: "Perceptions of Physical Education Teachers Regarding the State of Georgia Physical Activity Curriculum and its Suitability for Incarcerated Juveniles." Dr. Tony Cobb 35:51

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Dr. Tony Q. Cobb, Jr. a native from Macon, GA holds a Doctor of Education degree in Sports and Athletic Management from Northcentral University, and a Master of Science degree in Sports Management from American Military University. As a former collegiate athlete, he also obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from Alabama State…

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