This is the audio from the October 2025 – #AIESEPConnect #CoffeeWithColleagues Contemporary Issues in Primary / Elementary Physical Education with Gerald Griggs, Grace Cardiff, and Vicky Randall. It is co-hosted by Maura Coulter and Kristy Howells You can watch the video version here https://youtu.be/9jGCu7meqRU To be kept up to date with the activ…

I joined the Aussie Book Club this month, and our discussion was surrounding Mikael Quennerstedt's 2019 Article: Quennerstedt (2019). Physical education and the art of teaching: transformative learning and teaching in physical education and sports pedagogy, Sport, Education and Society, 24:6, 611-623.…

This podcast discusses human flourishing in PE. The discussion revolves around Jamie Brunsdon’s recent papers on this topic, and I’ve invited some colleagues for a discussion around this topic that was committed to by all parties at the AIESEP conference in 2025 after a great discussion. The star of the show is Dr. Jamie Brunsdon who is at Universi…

In this episode Risto sits down with Dr. Ben Kern from the University of Wyoming to discuss an ambitious and practical initiative known as the School Health MAP (Model for Assessment and Planning). This collaborative effort, developed alongside colleagues like Wes Wilson (University of Illinois) and Hans van der Mars (Arizona State University), and…

If you’re a graduate student trying to navigate the exciting world of physical education research, I have some fantastic news for you. The American Educational Research Association SIG93 (a Special Interest Group for Research on Learning and Instruction in Physical Education) is launching a graduate student network. You can sign up for the mailing …

This podcast is the first in a future series covering the AIESEP 2026 conference in Taipei Taiwan June 15-19th 2026. Abstracts close Nov 4th 2025. Here is a link to the blog that has hyperlinks to all of the suggestions from Alicia https://aiesep.org/aiesep-2026-an-introduction-to-taiwan/ Here is a link to the conference website where you can submi…

To shed light on the journal publishing process, I recently spoke with editors from some of the leading journals in our field: the Journal of Teaching in Physical Education (JTPE), Quest, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (PESP), and Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education. This podcast covers the structure and scope of the journals…

In this first Scandinavian edition of Playing with Research, Dean Barker and Robin Lindgren Fjellner take the opportunity to find out more about self study of practice from New Zealand scholars Dawn Garbett and Alan Ovens. Dawn and Alan are at the University of Auckland. They have been doing self studies within teacher education and physical educat…

In this episode of the AI Book Club, Risto Marttinen from George Mason University is joined by Dr. Erin Centeio (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) and Dr. Sara Flory (University of South Florida) for a rich discussion on the book Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson. The convers…

In this months Aussie Bookclub we discuss the production cluster styles from the Spectrum of teaching styles. WE define the style, talk about our perceived pros and cons, where it fits with Australian National Curriculum, when we have used it with sports coaching and common mistakes/challenges for first time users. This is Part 2 of a podcast as we…

Risto and Aaron discuss a wide range of issues such as publication, working with teachers, international education, and the state of the field. Aaron Beighle is a professor at the University of Kentucky and is the co-author of elementary and secondary PE methods books as well as a prolific scholar with over 11,000 citations of his work, that he cla…

Risto is joined by Dr. Sean Fullerton from Towson University to discuss a recent article in JTPE that covers teachers acceptance and use of a fitness based software, specifically PLT4M Here is the full cite to the article: Fullerton, S. A., Gaudreault, K. L., Simonton, K. L., Shiver, V. N., & Kravitz, L. (2025). Physical Education Teachers’ Accepta…

This is a theory breakdown episode of the universal theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). It is recorded by Sean Fullerton and is a companion podcast to episode 377 in which he describes research on PE teachers acceptance and use of fitness based technologies where he employed this theory…

This episode covers (in detail) everything you need to know about the PhD summer school held in Taiwan in June 2026 For details on the funding announcement see the blog post https://aiesep.org/aiesep-announces-landmark-10-year-partnership-with-spectrum-institute-for-teaching-and-learning/ You can find the link to apply here https://www.dropbox.com/…

Risto is joined by a group of colleagues to discuss one article that we feel has been most influential on our current or past research. We're talking about articles that have had a profound impact on where our research went and discuss a little about the back story from each. Here are the APA citations of the articles if you want to look them up: R…

The Aussie Book Club takes on the Spectrum of Teaching Styles, well half of it at first...they talk about pros and cons of styles A-E, Where it can be used in Australian Curriculum, Where we have used it in sport coaching Common mistakes/errors for first time users Next month is “The Production Cluster Styles F-K…

This is the audio from the June 2025 AIESEP Connect on Signature Pedagogies.

This is the July episode of the Aussie Book Club where our Australian colleagues discuss one article in depth once a month. This month the article discussed is below: Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J., & Clark, R. E. (2006). Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Ex…

This is the next issue of the Australian Book Club. This week the Aussie “blokes” talk about “what’s wright in PE” Here is a synopisis. Exploring positive narratives in physical education (PE) involves recognizing and highlighting the valuable contributions and positive impacts of PE programs. This includes understanding PE's purpose, its connectio…

If you don’t understand Finnish then this episode is going to be really confusing. This is a recording of a Keynote lecture (in Finnish) that I gave in Jyväskylä on May 14th 2025 about the Finnish Model for Leisure Activities. Here is a link to the slides (in Finnish) I just ask that you please not use them in any form or share them in any form out…

This is the audio from the AIESEP Connect (an online session put on by AIESEP to share research) from May 2025, and is the first by the Technology SIG May 2025 – #AIESEPConnect #CoffeeWithColleagues Modalities and Pedagogies Exploring Digital Learning Across In-Person, Hybrid, and Remote Physical Education Contexts with Julia Sargent, Ove Østerlie,…

This is the 6th Australian Book Club. The speakers are Brendan SueSee, Michael Davies, and Dave Robinson Synopsis/Background Most Pedagogical or curriculum models in physical education (PE) focus on various content like health, game tactics, sport cultures, and expression. The Practising model has no content as the student generates the content thr…

Our colleagues from University of Limerick share two amazing resources with you that are 100% free and aimed to help teacher educators. We will talk about the Justice ED and SATLE projects and share these awesome Toolkits that have been created. Below are the website links to the projects and the links to the Toolkits. Justice Ed: https://www.ul.ie…

This is the audio from the 28th of March, 2025 PETE Collaborative that was hosted to discuss critical issues in the PETE field, notably the future directions of the SHAPE America Research Council. Over 100 PETE scholars attended live.

This is a 15min presentation about my research on the Finnish Model for Leisure Activities. It was given at the Fulbright Education Forum March 26th, 2025 hosted by the Fulbright Finland Foundation which also has sponsored my stay in Finland this year to conduct the research. The study is also supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture here…

This article club discusses Swedish researchers who asked secondary school students/Gymnasium to discuss their perceptions of HPE through their assessment experiences. Some interesting but not surprising perceptions were shared, and as is true for the Australian Article Club... good discussion was had! Here is the link to the article and the citati…

Today, we’re discussing the article ‘How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review. This was recently published in PESP and came up in discussion during Ash Casey’s scholar lecture at BERA. You can find that lecture in episode 350 Full Cite: Fjellner, R. L., Varea, V., & Barker, D. (2024). How physical educa…

Dean Barker and Hakan Larsson join me to discuss their latest article in Sport Education and Society titled: "What do you think you are doing? How physical education researchers make scientific contributions". This is an open access article that covers issues in publishing and research in the field. To cite this article: D. Barker, J.-E. Ekberg, G.…

This is the 4th Article club with Brendan SueSee, Michael Davies, and Dave Robinson. The article they discussed was: Sarah Metz, Benjamin Zander & Ina Hunger (09 May 2024): The suffering of students in physical education. Unsettling experiences and situational conditions, Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2024.2352825 Thi…

This is an AIESEP Connect session that is hosted by the new Social Justice SIG in AIESEP. You can find all about the special interest groups of AIESEP here https://aiesep.org/special-interest-groups/ Our 2025 conference is in St. Petersburg Florida We will be in Australia for a specialist seminar at the end of the year and in 2026 our world congres…

This is an informational session of AERA SIG 93 It was recorded in January 2025 and was meant to provide knowledge on the SIG history, where we are now, and where we are going; the unique networking and benefits of the SIG; the importance of SIG membership and its impact on the future of the SIG If you publish research in the field of physical educ…

Our Australian colleagues chose a book chapter by the great Mark Byra from the University of Wyoming for their third article club. The chapter is titled “Inclusion style of teaching, studentautonomy and responsibility” and this is in a book called the Spectrum of teaching styles in physical education.…

This is a cross-over episode with The Meaningful Physical Education Podcasts. We are discussing the use of podcasts in PE and in professional development. The other podcast that is hosted is fairly new and REALLY good. You can find more information on how to listen to it below: You can find more episodes here: ⁠Apple Podcasts ⁠ Here is the website:…

This is the third Australian Article Club. It covers the following article: Nyberg, G., Backman, E., & Tinning, R. (2022). Moving online in physical education teacher education. Sport, Education and Society, 29(3), 358–370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2142776 In this article the authors discuss the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic cr…

The second Australian Article Club takes on outsourcing in PE. In Australia and NZ, particularly in primary schools (years prep-6) pe is increasingly being taught by outside providers who usually are not pe trained teachers. The syllabus or curriculum in P-6 expects that a classroom generalist teacher can teach PE. It is only in the Australian stat…

This is a new podcast about meaningful PE and I wanted to share it in the @theHPEpodcast feed. You can find more episodes here: Apple Podcasts Here is the website: https://meaningfulpodcastexperience.buzzsprout.com/2358344/episodes And here is the purpose and goals of the podcast: Our purpose is to engage in conversations with those enacting Meanin…

For over 30 years in the Australian state of Queensland, a final grade for physical education (in years 11 and 12) was given based on 50% theory and 50% practical, valuing movement and knowledge equally. This article was written in response to changes in a syllabus in the Australian state of Queensland in 2019 which awarded a final mark based on 82…

This is the audio from the September 2025 AERA SIG 93 webinar about the new SHAPE America Standards. It is hosted by Chair Cory Dixon and the two guests are: Dr. Clancy Seymore and Langston Clark (both writers of the new standards)

This episode features the scholar lecture for BERA which is the British Educational Research Association. Within BERA there is a PESP SIG (phys ed and sport pedagogy). Eachyear, leading up to the wider BERA conference, they have a full day invisible college that features the scholar lecture. This year’s scholar lecture was given by Dr. Ash Casey fr…

This podcast introduces the AIESEP 2025 conference in St.Petersburg Florida. It will take place May 18-22nd (18this a full pre-conference day and the 22nd will have the banquet at night). The call for proposals closes September 15th,2024. Notifications will be sent out by December 15th. Here is a link to the abstract submission https://www.aiesepst…

Naomi Harte from Loughborough University, UK, joins to discuss the article The if, why and how of fitness testingin secondary school physical education in the United Kingdom published with Laura Alfrey, Christopher Spray, and Lorraine Cale. We discuss teachers’ learning intentions, pedagogical practices, and attitudes towards fitnesstesting. Full C…

Dr. Lauren Wheeler is a physical education teacher with the US Department of Defense, stationed in Germany. She has been a finalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year due in part to her popular “Physically Healthy At That (PHAT)” program developed in collaboration with military partners to improve fitness outcomes for high school students. Dr. Wheel…

Dr. Jamie Brunsdon is a third year Assistant Professor of Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy at the University of Memphis. Prior to moving to the University of Alabama in2018 to complete his doctoral degree, Jamie was a full and part-time physical education in England. His research interests include studying teacher and faculty socialization and…

This is the audio recording of the 2024 Catherine D. Ennis SIG Scholar Lecture. It is the highest honor awarded in the SIG and is named for a long-time SIG member Cathy Ennis who passed away in 2017. This year's recipient is Dr. Kevin Andrew Richards (University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign) and he is introduced by his mentor and past dissertation…

In this episode, Dr. Shelby Ison discusses the dissertation titled "Basic Psychological Needs, Affect, and Motivation Among Elementary Students in a Physical Activity-Based Wellness Program." Dr. Shelby Ison is visiting assistantprofessor at Northern Illinois University. Her primary research interests include understanding K-12 students' psychologi…

In this episode, Dr. Brandon Foye discusses his dissertation titled "Examining Online Learning in K–12 Online Physical Education and Physical Education Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic". Following an 11-year career as a middle and high school physical education teacher, Dr. Foye enrolled in a doctoral program at Boston University. Aft…

Dr. Seunghyun Baek is an Assistant Professor in the Physical Education department at SUNY Cortland. Seunghyun completed her Ph.D. in Kinesiology at University of NorthCarolina at Greensboro in 2023 with Dr. Ben Dyson. She taught and worked with diverse student populations in the U.S. and South Korea, especially focused on Social and Emotional Learn…

In this episode, Dr. Shannon Mulhearn discusses her dissertation titled "Looking Inward: Does Physical Activity Promotion Training Transfer Beyond PETE?" Wellness promotion is the overarching theme that ties together Dr. Mulhearn’s body of work. Her current research focuses on innovative techniques of building resiliency in various areas of educati…

In this episode, Dr. Stacey Imagbe discusses her dissertation titled "Culturally Relevant Physcial Education for Optimizing Physical Activity Opportunities." Dr. Imagbe serves as a first-year assistant professor on a tenure track at Morehouse College, specifically within the Department of Kinesiology, Sports Studies, and Physical Education. Her pri…