I began this presentation with a claim that research in physical education matters, but that it needs to matter more, and to more people. I believe, on the basis of this analysis, that as a field of research we are reaching a more mature phase of development, and that there is evidence of a theoretical consensus over the proper object of study in physical education, which I have argued is pedagogy. Evidence of publication trends in the three main European-based English-language research journals shows that they serve European-based researchers well compared with a USA-based journal such as JTPE, and that the output of papers focusing on teachers, teaching and teacher education, learners and learning, and relations between pedagogical components increased in the second half of the past decade. I argued that these trends show a consolidation of research on pedagogy as a topic, and I highlighted MBP and didactique as two examples of relational research which is informed by strong and cohesive theoretical perspectives. While the data do not allow us to say whether there is a distinctive European identity emerging, we can say nevertheless that this research makes a good contribution to a concern for the social construction of knowledge within either curriculum or relational categories of study, and on socially critical issues.
But we also face a number of challenges to more people understanding that research in physical education matters. I referred to government investment in various strategies for physical education and school sport in the UK to suggest that there is little evidence in this case of evidence-based policy-making. Indeed, the majority of peer-reviewed and published research in physical education has been ignored completely as £2.2 billion of public money has been spent on physical education and school sport. While it may be relatively easy to criticise government for failing to see the importance of this research, I argued that we as a community of researchers are not above criticism for this failing, and that we need collectively to engage in radical re-visioning of our work and its impact. I cited the lack of research into the relationship between PETE and the dominant form of school physical education as an example of a problem most of us see on a day-to-day basis as researchers and teacher educators but that we fail to better understand and resolve. Carrying out research that can make a difference requires the development of theories that allow us to connect the practice of physical education and sport pedagogy to the broader physical culture of societies and that allows us in a reflexive act to locate ourselves within ‘the bigger picture’.
I began this presentation with a claim that research in physical education matters, but that it needs to matter more, and to more people. I believe, on the basis of this analysis, that as a field of research we are reaching a more mature phase of development, and that there is evidence of a theoretical consensus over the proper object of study in physical education, which I have argued is pedagogy. Evidence of publication trends in the three main European-based English-language research journals shows that they serve European-based researchers well compared with a USA-based journal such as JTPE, and that the output of papers focusing on teachers, teaching and teacher education, learners and learning, and relations between pedagogical components increased in the second half of the past decade. I argued that these trends show a consolidation of research on pedagogy as a topic, and I highlighted MBP and didactique as two examples of relational research which is informed by strong and cohesive theoretical perspectives. While the data do not allow us to say whether there is a distinctive European identity emerging, we can say nevertheless that this research makes a good contribution to a concern for the social construction of knowledge within either curriculum or relational categories of study, and on socially critical issues.But we also face a number of challenges to more people understanding that research in physical education matters. I referred to government investment in various strategies for physical education and school sport in the UK to suggest that there is little evidence in this case of evidence-based policy-making. Indeed, the majority of peer-reviewed and published research in physical education has been ignored completely as £2.2 billion of public money has been spent on physical education and school sport. While it may be relatively easy to criticise government for failing to see the importance of this research, I argued that we as a community of researchers are not above criticism for this failing, and that we need collectively to engage in radical re-visioning of our work and its impact. I cited the lack of research into the relationship between PETE and the dominant form of school physical education as an example of a problem most of us see on a day-to-day basis as researchers and teacher educators but that we fail to better understand and resolve. Carrying out research that can make a difference requires the development of theories that allow us to connect the practice of physical education and sport pedagogy to the broader physical culture of societies and that allows us in a reflexive act to locate ourselves within ‘the bigger picture’.
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