Meaningful physical education and teaching for effective learning
I had the pleasure of chatting with Tim Fletcher about the concept of Meaningful Physical Education (MPE) at a conference a few years ago. I enjoyed the opportunity to get this insight as my research and teaching is at the research-practice nexus on problems of practice and pedagogy. I believe MPE has much guidance to offer physical education pedagogical practice, however, the ideas of MPE are not new (which are acknowledged in the book - Meaningful Physical Education: An Approach for Teaching and Learning). More broadly in education literature, the idea of 'meaningfulness' has often been attached to the idea of 'relevance'. Relevance is something I have been chatting about for many years. This 2009 Edutopia blog here is a good read on why making learning relevant matters. An example I often use relevant to my local context, is the teaching of badminton in secondary physical education. Badminton would be taught locally in most secondary school physical educatio...
