Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Workforce Research and Development

This is the first book to examine physical education from the perspective of workforce research and development. It adopts a whole system approach - including schools, higher education and public policy - to advance an action-oriented framework for meeting the needs, challenges and opportunities of the global physical education profession.

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Hal A. Lawson is Professor of Social Welfare and Educational Policy and Leadership at the University at Albany-SUNY, USA. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in physical education, public health, social welfare and educational leadership/policy. His experiences and achievements span 50 years in five North American universities, and his pioneering work on teacher socialization and occupational socialization overall has continued to garner interest as others advance it.

Emily M. Jones is Professor of physical education teacher education at Illinois State University, USA. Her research focuses on school and community-based wellness initiatives utilizing systems thinking and community engaged frameworks, as well as examining factors associated with recruitment and retention into health and physical education professions. She has secured and served as principle or co-principle investigator on over $1 million of extramural funding to support the intersection of her research agendas.

Kevin Andrew Richards is Associate Professor of physical education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His primary research focuses on understanding the recruitment, education, and career-long socialization of physical education teachers and physical activity providers. He is also interested in the integration of social and emotional learning in physical education and activity settings. Richards is Editor of the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education.

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PART I

Setting the Agenda: Priorities for Collective Action and Future Work

1 Prioritizing a 21st Century Workforce Agenda

HAL A. LAWSON, KEVIN ANDREW RICHARDS AND EMILY M. JONES

2 The Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Workforce

KEVIN ANDREW RICHARDS, EMILY M. JONES AND HAL A. LAWSON

3 Toward a Workforce Vocabulary for Research and Development

HAL A. LAWSON, EMILY M. JONES AND KEVIN ANDREW RICHARDS

4 The Growing Diversity in the Workforce

JENNIFER L. WALTON FISETTE, MICHAEL A. HEMPHILL AND SUE SUTHERLAND

5 From System Analysis to Coordinated, Collective Action

EMILY M. JONES, KEVIN ANDREW RICHARDS AND HAL A. LAWSON

PART II

Global Perspectives on PESP Workforce Priorities and Innovations

6 Health and Physical Education Workplace Research and Development: An Australian Perspective

JOHN WILLIAMS, SUE WHATMAN, CASEY PETER MAINSBRIDGE AND EMMA POTTER

7 Workforce Research and Development in Finland

KASPER SALIN AND MATTI PIETILÄ

8 The Irish Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Workforce: An Example of Collective Action for High Impact

ANTONIO CALDERÓN, BRENDAN O'KEEFFE, MARTINA FINNERAN, MIKE CAREY AND ELAINE MURTAGH

9 Physical Education Workforce Development in South Korea

OKSEON LEE, YOUNGJOON KIM AND SEUNGHYEON OH

10 Physical Education Workforce in Spain

JAVIER FERNANDEZ RIO, DAVID DIAZ TEJERINA, PABLO URIA VALLE AND JORGE LAFUENTE

PART III

Reflections and Future Directions in Workforce Development

11 Transnational Research: The Benefits of Collaboration

PHILLIP WARD, FATIH DERVENT, ERHAN DEVRILMEZ, YAOHUI HE, PETER ISERBYT, INSOOK KIM, BOMNA KO, JOSÉ A. SANTIAGO, EMI TSUDA, XIAOZAN WANG AND XIUYE XIE

12 Power, Policy, Practice and Partnerships in Conceptualising a PESP Workforce Research and Development Agenda

DOUNE MACDONALD AND LOUISE McCUAIG

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13 Looking Back, Sideways, and Ahead: Taking Stock of Colleagues' Perspectives

HAL A. LAWSON, EMILY M. JONES AND KEVIN ANDREW RICHARDS