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Health and physical education and the online tertiary environment at two universities: Preservice teachers' perceived 'readiness' to teach HPE

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posted on 2023-05-17, 21:30 authored by Jennifer McMahonJennifer McMahon, Dinan Thompson, M
In recent years in tertiary institutions in Australia, there has been a large increase of enrolments in Education courses delivered via an online/external mode. This has raised a number of concerns around the nexus of theory and practice and whether pre-service teachers feel ready to teach after completing Education study online. The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service teachers’ perceived readiness to teach Health and Physical Education (HPE) after engaging with the subject fully in an online tertiary environment. 26 pre-service teachers studying education online from two separate were involved in this study. Upon completion of the University semester and also after a practicum placement, qualitative data was collected detailing the pre-service teachers’ perceptions in regard to their readiness to teach HPE. Pre-service teachers’ perceptions are used as the primary data highlighting the varying levels of readiness to teach HPE.

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Volume

39

Article number

6

Number

6

Pagination

120-134

ISSN

0313-5373

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Edith Cowan University

Place of publication

Australia

Rights statement

Copyright 2014 Edith Cowan University

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified

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