Understandings, Attitudes and Intentions of Health and Physical Education Teachers in Relation to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education

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Gleeson, Paul (2017) Understandings, Attitudes and Intentions of Health and Physical Education Teachers in Relation to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education. Other Degree thesis, Victoria University.

Abstract

Australia’s education system is undergoing major reform with the staged introduction of the Australian Curriculum starting in 2010. One of the learning areas designated for development in the Australian Curriculum is Health and Physical Education (HPE). The aim of this study is to examine the understandings, attitudes and intentions of regional HPE teachers in relation to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (AC:HPE). A qualitative research method based on narrative inquiry has been used to gather data to provide a depiction of regional secondary school HPE teachers during the initial implementation phase of the AC:HPE. This study is significant in that it occurs at a unique time in Australia’s education system with the realisation of the nation’s first national curriculum. Furthermore, this study will contribute knowledge to an area of HPE research that has received little scholarly attention in the past, using a research methodology that is not usually associated with the discipline.

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Doctor of Education

Item type Thesis (Other Degree thesis)
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/37850
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
Current > Division/Research > College of Arts and Education
Keywords curriculum; Australia; teachers; secondary education; health and physical education; HPE; AC:HPE; St David's College; All Saints College; Victoria; News South Wales
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