Alan Patrick Ovens
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 235829 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alan Patrick Ovens |
| PRENOMES | Alan Patrick |
| SOBRENOME | Ovens |
| ASSINATURA | OVENS A P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3017-0935 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Embodied understandings of academic resonance within Sport, Health and Physical Education contexts
Doing trans-national research in physical education
This paper examines the methodological challenges and issues that arose within a transnational research collaboration between physical education teacher education (PETE) researchers from China and Aotearoa New Zealand. The project sought to enhance school-based Physical Education through collaborative forms of practitioner research. Drawing on reflective journals, meeting transcripts, interviews, and email correspondence, we used thematic analysi…
Collaborative inquiry for change
Background Despite decades of scholarship urging physical educators to foreground principles of equity and social justice in their teaching, translating these ideals into everyday teaching remains a complex and uneven challenge. This study responds to the call for grounded, empirical accounts of socially just teaching practices in Health and Physical Education.Purpose To explore how nine secondary school HPE teachers working in collaborative, pra…
Hegemony, antagonism, and struggle
Background Leadership is hegemony (Fairclough, 1995. Critical Discourse Analysis. Harlow: Longman). Principals’ leadership is essential for maintaining and improving school culture, management, and curriculum. Their perspectives and discourses on physical education (PE) can show the status and practices of PE in school teaching and learning. However, current research into primary school principals’ perspectives and discourses on PE is scarce and …
Teaching across cultures
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers
The role of theory in physical education research
The role of theory in physical education research: an exploratory case study of figurational sociology in physical education research
Exploring heutagogy in a tertiary coach developer course
This study explores the challenges of applying heutagogy in a tertiary coach education course. It examines (first author) Blake’s assumptions about heutagogy as a complementary epistemological approach in coach education and how these assumptions shaped his teaching in a third-year coach developer course. Building on previous research on heutagogy in student-coach learning, this study uses self-study methodology to provide a nuanced perspective o…
Social justice knowledge construction among physical education teacher educators
Background: The imperative for social justice in education means that pre-service teachers should learn how to teach for and about social justice, including pedagogical and content knowledge. Understanding how physical education (PE) pre-service teachers and teacher educators construct and develop their knowledge of social justice pedagogies and critical content, intertwined with values based on social justice and equity, is needed to best suppor…
Experienced teacher educators hunting assumptions to examine their pedagogy
The research presented in this article focuses on an international collaboration conducted by four experienced teacher educators who used assumption identification and examination to advance pedagogical practice. It describes and examines how teacher educators deliberately undertook reflective practices to inform and enhance teaching. Four vignettes are described and analyzed— Practica woes and Modelling practice —and examined using the simple, c…
Perspectives on social justice when becoming a teacher-researcher in the practicum
Understanding the role teachers must play in fostering social justice is one of many tasks student teachers learn on practicum. This self-study is a collaborative endeavour between eight Brazilian teacher-researchers who work in multiple teaching positions and settings in different regions of the country. Our assumption within the broader research scope is that being a teacher-researcher has commonalities related to social justice whether teachin…
O conhecimento indígena como parte de uma pedagogia crítica contra a precariedade em Saúde e Educação Física em Aotearoa Nova Zelândia
A pedagogia crítica é uma abordagem dinâmica e transformadora da educação que deve continuar a se adaptar aos contextos sociais e históricos em rápida mudança. Neste artigo, defendemos que práticas pedagógicas baseadas em saberes e princípios indígenas possibilitam uma pedagogia crítica para a Saúde e Educação Física que questione os efeitos da precariedade. Com base especificamente no contexto de Aotearoa Nova Zelândia, descrevemos os princípios…
Perspectives of a School Teacher and Teacher Educators Teaching During the Covid-19 Situation
This article considers the lived challenges facing three educators as they adapt, plan, and teach online lessons as a response to the Coronavirus disease. The closure of schools has forced many educators into new and uncertain territory and practices. Teaching online has been challenging in different terms and has also forced a deeper reflection on the nature of education. A self-study methodology was used to analyse the perceptions and feelings …
Games-based movement education
Background: For many years, skill learning has been an important component of primary school physical education (PE) with most lessons focused on the teaching of fundamental movement skills (FMS) or sports techniques (Kirk 2010 Kirk, D. 2010. Physical Education Futures. New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]). Increasingly, the generalist primary school teachers who are responsible for delivering the PE curriculum are facing multiple constraints t…
How does physical education and health respond to the growing influence in media and digital technologies? An analysis of curriculum in Brazil, Australia and New Zealand
The increasing use of media and digital technologies has been modifying how people think over and shape their physical activities and healthcare consumption. This growing trend has been reflected in school curriculum developments for Physical Education and Health. As educators and policy makers adjust local curricula to reflect these technological changes, there is alack of knowledge on how these developments have been undertaken in different nat…
A socially-critical curriculum for Pete
Brazil is the largest and most influential country in South America with a population of about 211 million. The reality is a country with a wide gap between rich and poor. Many of its issues of (in)equity are related to a complex mix of factors, such as its large population, ethnic and cultural diversity, class and income disparity, late slavery abolishment, unstable democracy and political governance. At a national level, the former Brazilian go…
Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship
"Intimatescholarship" refers to qualitative methodologies, such as self-study and autoethnography, that directly engage the personal experience, knowledge, and/or practices of the researcher(s) as the focus ofinquiry. While intimate scholarship offers entry points into non-binary thinking by blurring the line between researcher/researched, much work in this genre continues to reinforce a humanist "I". In this volume, we ask what happens when the …
Self-study in physical education
In a recent article in this journal, Brown (2011) advocated strongly for the use of self-study as an important aspect of continuing professional learning for those working in the field of health, s
Akaoraora'ia te peu 'ā to 'ui tūpuna
This research examines outcomes from introducing cultural values into Cook Islands secondary schools during two cycles of action research comprising planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The cultural values upon which the physical education lessons were based were: tāueue (participation), angaanga kapiti (cooperation), akatano (discipline), angaanga taokotai (community involvement), te reo Maori Kuki Airani (Cook Islands Maori languag…
The New Zealand Curriculum
The launch of New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) brings into question the future of the reforms introduced in the 1999 curriculum, Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand National Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 1999). The aim of this paper is to critique recent physical education curriculum policy in New Zealand and explore some of the discursive dilemmas that work to shape a unique rendering in New Zealand schools.…
Reflection as situated practice
Reflection as situated practice
The role of theory in physical education research
The role of theory in physical education research: an exploratory case study of figurational sociology in physical education research
A socially-critical curriculum for Pete
Brazil is the largest and most influential country in South America with a population of about 211 million. The reality is a country with a wide gap between rich and poor. Many of its issues of (in)equity are related to a complex mix of factors, such as its large population, ethnic and cultural diversity, class and income disparity, late slavery abolishment, unstable democracy and political governance. At a national level, the former Brazilian go…
Akaoraora'ia te peu 'ā to 'ui tūpuna
This research examines outcomes from introducing cultural values into Cook Islands secondary schools during two cycles of action research comprising planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The cultural values upon which the physical education lessons were based were: tāueue (participation), angaanga kapiti (cooperation), akatano (discipline), angaanga taokotai (community involvement), te reo Maori Kuki Airani (Cook Islands Maori languag…
Reflection as situated practice
The New Zealand Curriculum
The launch of New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) brings into question the future of the reforms introduced in the 1999 curriculum, Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand National Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 1999). The aim of this paper is to critique recent physical education curriculum policy in New Zealand and explore some of the discursive dilemmas that work to shape a unique rendering in New Zealand schools.…
Akaoraora'ia te peu 'ā to 'ui tūpuna
This research examines outcomes from introducing cultural values into Cook Islands secondary schools during two cycles of action research comprising planning, implementing, observing and reflecting. The cultural values upon which the physical education lessons were based were: tāueue (participation), angaanga kapiti (cooperation), akatano (discipline), angaanga taokotai (community involvement), te reo Maori Kuki Airani (Cook Islands Maori languag…
Self-study in physical education
In a recent article in this journal, Brown (2011) advocated strongly for the use of self-study as an important aspect of continuing professional learning for those working in the field of health, s
Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship
"Intimatescholarship" refers to qualitative methodologies, such as self-study and autoethnography, that directly engage the personal experience, knowledge, and/or practices of the researcher(s) as the focus ofinquiry. While intimate scholarship offers entry points into non-binary thinking by blurring the line between researcher/researched, much work in this genre continues to reinforce a humanist "I". In this volume, we ask what happens when the …
A socially-critical curriculum for Pete
Brazil is the largest and most influential country in South America with a population of about 211 million. The reality is a country with a wide gap between rich and poor. Many of its issues of (in)equity are related to a complex mix of factors, such as its large population, ethnic and cultural diversity, class and income disparity, late slavery abolishment, unstable democracy and political governance. At a national level, the former Brazilian go…
Games-based movement education
Background: For many years, skill learning has been an important component of primary school physical education (PE) with most lessons focused on the teaching of fundamental movement skills (FMS) or sports techniques (Kirk 2010 Kirk, D. 2010. Physical Education Futures. New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]). Increasingly, the generalist primary school teachers who are responsible for delivering the PE curriculum are facing multiple constraints t…
How does physical education and health respond to the growing influence in media and digital technologies? An analysis of curriculum in Brazil, Australia and New Zealand
The increasing use of media and digital technologies has been modifying how people think over and shape their physical activities and healthcare consumption. This growing trend has been reflected in school curriculum developments for Physical Education and Health. As educators and policy makers adjust local curricula to reflect these technological changes, there is alack of knowledge on how these developments have been undertaken in different nat…
Perspectives of a School Teacher and Teacher Educators Teaching During the Covid-19 Situation
This article considers the lived challenges facing three educators as they adapt, plan, and teach online lessons as a response to the Coronavirus disease. The closure of schools has forced many educators into new and uncertain territory and practices. Teaching online has been challenging in different terms and has also forced a deeper reflection on the nature of education. A self-study methodology was used to analyse the perceptions and feelings …
Experienced teacher educators hunting assumptions to examine their pedagogy
The research presented in this article focuses on an international collaboration conducted by four experienced teacher educators who used assumption identification and examination to advance pedagogical practice. It describes and examines how teacher educators deliberately undertook reflective practices to inform and enhance teaching. Four vignettes are described and analyzed— Practica woes and Modelling practice —and examined using the simple, c…
Perspectives on social justice when becoming a teacher-researcher in the practicum
Understanding the role teachers must play in fostering social justice is one of many tasks student teachers learn on practicum. This self-study is a collaborative endeavour between eight Brazilian teacher-researchers who work in multiple teaching positions and settings in different regions of the country. Our assumption within the broader research scope is that being a teacher-researcher has commonalities related to social justice whether teachin…
O conhecimento indígena como parte de uma pedagogia crítica contra a precariedade em Saúde e Educação Física em Aotearoa Nova Zelândia
A pedagogia crítica é uma abordagem dinâmica e transformadora da educação que deve continuar a se adaptar aos contextos sociais e históricos em rápida mudança. Neste artigo, defendemos que práticas pedagógicas baseadas em saberes e princípios indígenas possibilitam uma pedagogia crítica para a Saúde e Educação Física que questione os efeitos da precariedade. Com base especificamente no contexto de Aotearoa Nova Zelândia, descrevemos os princípios…
Social justice knowledge construction among physical education teacher educators
Background: The imperative for social justice in education means that pre-service teachers should learn how to teach for and about social justice, including pedagogical and content knowledge. Understanding how physical education (PE) pre-service teachers and teacher educators construct and develop their knowledge of social justice pedagogies and critical content, intertwined with values based on social justice and equity, is needed to best suppor…
Collaborative inquiry for change
Background Despite decades of scholarship urging physical educators to foreground principles of equity and social justice in their teaching, translating these ideals into everyday teaching remains a complex and uneven challenge. This study responds to the call for grounded, empirical accounts of socially just teaching practices in Health and Physical Education.Purpose To explore how nine secondary school HPE teachers working in collaborative, pra…
Hegemony, antagonism, and struggle
Background Leadership is hegemony (Fairclough, 1995. Critical Discourse Analysis. Harlow: Longman). Principals’ leadership is essential for maintaining and improving school culture, management, and curriculum. Their perspectives and discourses on physical education (PE) can show the status and practices of PE in school teaching and learning. However, current research into primary school principals’ perspectives and discourses on PE is scarce and …
Teaching across cultures
The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers
The role of theory in physical education research
The role of theory in physical education research: an exploratory case study of figurational sociology in physical education research
Exploring heutagogy in a tertiary coach developer course
This study explores the challenges of applying heutagogy in a tertiary coach education course. It examines (first author) Blake’s assumptions about heutagogy as a complementary epistemological approach in coach education and how these assumptions shaped his teaching in a third-year coach developer course. Building on previous research on heutagogy in student-coach learning, this study uses self-study methodology to provide a nuanced perspective o…
Embodied understandings of academic resonance within Sport, Health and Physical Education contexts
Doing trans-national research in physical education
This paper examines the methodological challenges and issues that arose within a transnational research collaboration between physical education teacher education (PETE) researchers from China and Aotearoa New Zealand. The project sought to enhance school-based Physical Education through collaborative forms of practitioner research. Drawing on reflective journals, meeting transcripts, interviews, and email correspondence, we used thematic analysi…
Sociology (17 obras) · Pedagogy (15 obras) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (15 obras) · Physical education (11 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras)