John R Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 3995946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1566-4507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Botanical women artists in northern Queensland
This article explicates the contributions of two women botanical artists, Marian Ellis Rowan (1848–1922) and Vera Scarth-Johnson (1912–1999) to botanical science in northern Queensland. Despite the perception of botany as more accessible to women than other scientific fields, formal botanical institutions during the late Victorian era and early twentieth century remained male dominated. Within this context, Rowan’s privilege enabled her to naviga…
Co-designing a health promotion program for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls
Despite progression in the ethical and methodological conduct of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, disparities still pervade, indicating limitations in knowledge translation. One identified gap is a lack of documented experiences detailing how ethical guidelines may be practically applied. This paper aims to (i) describe the research processes involved in co-designing a physical activity and psychosocial health program for Ab…
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching
The Australian Curriculum requires teachers of all learning areas to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Culture and History where there is opportunity to do so meaningfully. Despite this requirement, there are few studies considering culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in the teaching of Physical Education (PE) in Australian schools. This study investigated a Year 7 PE teaching team in one school’s implementa…
Conceptualising games and sport teaching in physical education as a culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (2020a) requires all teachers to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’, culture and history where there is scope to meaningfully do so. However, there is a general absence in Australia and internationally of understanding culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in teaching Physical Education (PE). This…
‘ … If My Family Didn’t Play Football … We Would Literally Have Pretty Much Nothing’
Contemporarily Australian Indigenous peoples are portrayed by white Australians according to deficit understandings. As well as being inaccurate, this depiction, as part of a long-term civilising process, is an expression of ‘fantasy-laden thinking’ [Mennell, S., & Goudsblom, J. (1998). Introduction. In S. Mennell & J. Goudsblom (Eds.), Norbert Elias on civilization, power, and knowledge: Selected writings (pp. 1–45). The University of Chicago Pr…
Lifestyle clusters and academic achievement in Australian Indigenous children
Participation in sport and physical activity can improve academic outcomes and has been identified as a potential mechanism for addressing educational disadvantage and 'closing the gap' in Australian Indigenous communities. To explore this possibility in relation to sport and lifestyle we performed a cluster analysis on data from the Footprints in Time study (also known as the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children), using data from Waves 3-6 …
Long term trends in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth sport participation 2005–2019
Physical activity is essential for good health and sport participation is an important contributor to physical activity. Sport can achieve many health and broader social benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Indigenous Australians). Children’s physical activity typically declines during teenage years. This study examined 14-year sport participation trends among youth aged 15–19 years. Indigenous youth sport participant levels…
The cultural transition of Indigenous Australian athletes’ into professional sport
This article reports on a study that inquired into the journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the footy to the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) that identified two distinct stages of their journeys. These were: (1) the development of expertize and of a distinctly Aboriginal style of play from their first touch of a footy to around the age of thirteen and, (2) a process of cultu…
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused on the sampling phase of the Development Model of Participation in Sport (6–12 years of age), it combines narrative inquiry and grounded theory methodologies to identify the important role that participation in a range of differe…
Quaternary Environmental Micropalaeontology
Team selection in children's games
Games provide valuable learning experiences for children. Team games in particular involve them in a variety of roles and responsibilities. This article examines team selection in spontaneous playground games in an elementary school enrolling 500. The approach is naturalistic and ethnographic. The children were very concerned about choosing teams of comparable ability so as to ensure an even and fair contest. The key was careful selection of team…
Out to Play
Out to Play: The Middle Years of Childhood. Alasdair Roberts." Journal of Leisure Research, 18(1), pp. 53–54
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused on the sampling phase of the Development Model of Participation in Sport (6–12 years of age), it combines narrative inquiry and grounded theory methodologies to identify the important role that participation in a range of differe…
Conceptualising games and sport teaching in physical education as a culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (2020a) requires all teachers to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’, culture and history where there is scope to meaningfully do so. However, there is a general absence in Australia and internationally of understanding culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in teaching Physical Education (PE). This…
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching
The Australian Curriculum requires teachers of all learning areas to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Culture and History where there is opportunity to do so meaningfully. Despite this requirement, there are few studies considering culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in the teaching of Physical Education (PE) in Australian schools. This study investigated a Year 7 PE teaching team in one school’s implementa…
The cultural transition of Indigenous Australian athletes’ into professional sport
This article reports on a study that inquired into the journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the footy to the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) that identified two distinct stages of their journeys. These were: (1) the development of expertize and of a distinctly Aboriginal style of play from their first touch of a footy to around the age of thirteen and, (2) a process of cultu…
Out to Play
Out to Play: The Middle Years of Childhood. Alasdair Roberts." Journal of Leisure Research, 18(1), pp. 53–54
Team selection in children's games
Games provide valuable learning experiences for children. Team games in particular involve them in a variety of roles and responsibilities. This article examines team selection in spontaneous playground games in an elementary school enrolling 500. The approach is naturalistic and ethnographic. The children were very concerned about choosing teams of comparable ability so as to ensure an even and fair contest. The key was careful selection of team…
Quaternary Environmental Micropalaeontology
Socialisation, culture and the foundations of expertise in elite level Indigenous Australian sportsmen
This article reports on an ongoing study that investigates the development of expertise in rugby league and Australian football by Indigenous Australians as a socially and culturally situated process of learning. Focused on the sampling phase of the Development Model of Participation in Sport (6–12 years of age), it combines narrative inquiry and grounded theory methodologies to identify the important role that participation in a range of differe…
The cultural transition of Indigenous Australian athletes’ into professional sport
This article reports on a study that inquired into the journeys of sixteen Indigenous Australian athletes from their first touch of the footy to the Australian Football League (AFL) and National Rugby League (NRL) that identified two distinct stages of their journeys. These were: (1) the development of expertize and of a distinctly Aboriginal style of play from their first touch of a footy to around the age of thirteen and, (2) a process of cultu…
‘ … If My Family Didn’t Play Football … We Would Literally Have Pretty Much Nothing’
Contemporarily Australian Indigenous peoples are portrayed by white Australians according to deficit understandings. As well as being inaccurate, this depiction, as part of a long-term civilising process, is an expression of ‘fantasy-laden thinking’ [Mennell, S., & Goudsblom, J. (1998). Introduction. In S. Mennell & J. Goudsblom (Eds.), Norbert Elias on civilization, power, and knowledge: Selected writings (pp. 1–45). The University of Chicago Pr…
Lifestyle clusters and academic achievement in Australian Indigenous children
Participation in sport and physical activity can improve academic outcomes and has been identified as a potential mechanism for addressing educational disadvantage and 'closing the gap' in Australian Indigenous communities. To explore this possibility in relation to sport and lifestyle we performed a cluster analysis on data from the Footprints in Time study (also known as the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children), using data from Waves 3-6 …
Long term trends in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth sport participation 2005–2019
Physical activity is essential for good health and sport participation is an important contributor to physical activity. Sport can achieve many health and broader social benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (Indigenous Australians). Children’s physical activity typically declines during teenage years. This study examined 14-year sport participation trends among youth aged 15–19 years. Indigenous youth sport participant levels…
Conceptualising games and sport teaching in physical education as a culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy
The Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (2020a) requires all teachers to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’, culture and history where there is scope to meaningfully do so. However, there is a general absence in Australia and internationally of understanding culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in teaching Physical Education (PE). This…
An appreciative inquiry into physical education teachers creating a cultural interface in games and sport teaching
The Australian Curriculum requires teachers of all learning areas to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Culture and History where there is opportunity to do so meaningfully. Despite this requirement, there are few studies considering culturally responsive pedagogy for those perspectives in the teaching of Physical Education (PE) in Australian schools. This study investigated a Year 7 PE teaching team in one school’s implementa…
Co-designing a health promotion program for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls
Despite progression in the ethical and methodological conduct of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, disparities still pervade, indicating limitations in knowledge translation. One identified gap is a lack of documented experiences detailing how ethical guidelines may be practically applied. This paper aims to (i) describe the research processes involved in co-designing a physical activity and psychosocial health program for Ab…
Botanical women artists in northern Queensland
This article explicates the contributions of two women botanical artists, Marian Ellis Rowan (1848–1922) and Vera Scarth-Johnson (1912–1999) to botanical science in northern Queensland. Despite the perception of botany as more accessible to women than other scientific fields, formal botanical institutions during the late Victorian era and early twentieth century remained male dominated. Within this context, Rowan’s privilege enabled her to naviga…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Physical education (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)