D B Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 55932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D B Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | D B |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Francis Xavier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4608-361X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Voices from the field
Purpose Health education is often undervalued in school systems, despite addressing broad and complex learning outcomes essential for students' development and well-being. In order to gain an understanding of the current state of health education in Canada, this study examined health education teachers' perspectives about how health education is being delivered in K-12 schools. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through an online sur…
Health education teachers' views on supports and barriers to health education programs
Purpose Health education (HE) is an integral component of supporting students' overall well-being. However, teachers have identified concerns related to teaching HE. To understand these concerns, this research examined multilevel supports and barriers to the implementation of HE. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via an online survey (open-ended and closed-Likert scale questions) from 120 Canadian HE teachers. Findings Descriptive s…
The unstable foundation of health education
A significant challenge in Canada is the absence of provincial or territorial guidelines requiring teachers to receive health education training in postsecondary initial teacher education programs. To understand the extent of health education preparation across the country, we surveyed personnel from postsecondary initial teacher education programs. Specifically, we investigated the availability of health education curriculum and instruction/peda…
Feelings, Realizations, and Reflections of a Female Physical Education Teacher Confronting Experiences of Institutional(ized) Gender Inequality
This autoethnographic study intertwines personal experience with scholarly inquiry, inviting a deep exploration of the lived experiences and realities of a female physical education (PE) teacher. Wonderings about identities, conformity to masculine norms, and proving oneself to staff and students led to a review of relevant literature, journal entries, and meaningful conversations with critical friends. Through analysis and coding of emotions and…
Trauma-informed practices and physical education
Children and youth around the world are experiencing trauma to the extent that it has been labeled a global health concern ( O’Toole, 2022 ). Physical education (PE) teachers, among others, are attempting to respond to this concern by implementing research-based trauma-informed practices (TIPs). The purpose of this paper was to conduct a scoping review to gather and synthesize the literature on TIPs appropriate for the PE context within the K-12 …
Exploring adolescents’ perspectives of single-sex schooling
This paper focuses on the perspectives of adolescents attending a private Christian single-sex secondary school. The research literature into the impact of single-sex schooling upon learners, while plentiful, is equivocal and few scholars have delved into the views of adolescents in such contexts. To demonstrate their perspectives of single-sex schooling, the findings are represented as poetry clusters, grouped together to highlight the ways in w…
Single-Sex schooling at an Elite Independent School
This article focuses upon the milieu of single-sex schooling within an elite independent school in a Canadian urban centre. This research served as an exploratory and critical examination of single-sex schooling in a specific context, and considered its relevance, pedagogical effectiveness, and ability to meet its purported goals. Using an interpretative methodological framework, and employing a multi-methods case study design, the purpose of thi…
Game Changers
IntroductionAlthough school communities may be required to provide physical education opportunities for all students-including for those with disabilities-the same is not generally true with respect to school sport (i.e., participation in interscholastic or intramural sport programs). Hence, opportunities for inclusive school sport participation are consequently limited. Recognizing the need for continued attention and action in this area, we rec…
Alternative Environment Activities in Physical Education
This article discusses the importance of PE teacher embracement of AEAs, provides several specific practical examples for PE teachers looking to enhance AEA inclusion in their PE programs, and concludes with practical strategies to help overcome common PE teacher-cited barriers related to embracing AEAs
Alternative environment activities on both sides of the Atlantic
Due to the overemphasis of traditional sports at the expense of other movement domains in physical education (PE) programmes, there is a need to consider what factors might enable or limit PE teachers’ incorporation of some of these other domains that can support student learning. The focus of this article is on one such marginalized domain – alternative environment activities (AEAs). AEAs can afford students a breadth of opportunities for modera…
Single-sex education in the 21st century
The Syrian Canadian Sports Club
In this paper, we share the rationale, process, and results related to a community-based participatory action research (PAR) project in which we, among other things, aimed to attend to the underrepresentation of newcomer youth in community sport and recreation pursuits. By way of engaging with one rural county's Syrian youth refugee population while also attending closely to a social ecological framework, we first identified obstacles and opportu…
“There Is a Difference”
Jeff Orr, Daniel B. Robinson, Lisa Lunney Borden, Jennifer Tinkham, “There Is a Difference”: Mi'kmaw Students' Perceptions and Experiences in a Public School and in a Band-Operated School, Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 55-80
Why play outside? Problematising outdoor play as a biopedagogical task
Although outdoor play has been widely recognised for the many benefits it affords children, some have rationalised the need for it based on goals related to physical health. More specifically, these instrumental goals have been closely related to obesity, overweight, and/or physical (in)activity. Adhering to obesity discourses and the notion of a childhood obesity epidemic, such instrumentalisation of outdoor play unnecessarily positions it as a …
Teaching outside of the box
This article reports on results from a qualitative study of a two-week international internship for pre-service and in-service physical education (PE) teachers in a developing nation (Belize). Relying upon data from questionnaires that were administered before and after the short-term international internship, participants’ perspectives related to their professional and personal development were investigated. Understanding the overlap that necess…
At My Best 4-5-6
Background and context: At My Best 4-5-6 is a curriculum-support resource intended primarily for elementary generalist or physical and health education specialist teachers in Canada. Created by Physical and Health Education Canada and AstraZeneca, At My Best 4-5-6 aims to educate students about—and encourage healthy behaviours related to—physical activity, healthy eating, and emotional wellness. Objective: At My Best 4-5-6 is a relatively new pro…
Telling and selling
In recent times, not-for-profit organisations have been partnering with for-profit corporations to create educational resources. This has been especially true in physical and health education, particularly within Canada. For example, Physical and Health Education Canada has recently endorsed a number of corporate-sponsored educational resources related to health and wellness. Given this observation, we have recognised a need to theorise about how…
Exploring the Factors that Influence Female Students’ Decision to (Not) Enrol in Elective Physical Education
This article presents the results from a qualitative case study that examined the influencers upon a somewhat unique group of female students who opted out of elective physical education (PE). More specifically, this study focused upon female students attending an affluent private school, investigating why—when they transitioned from middle school to senior high school and PE became optional—they opted out of the class. Employing a research desig…
Charting a Course for Culturally Responsive Physical Education
In this article, we explore the absence of understanding related to culturally responsive pedagogy in physical education for Aboriginal students. In so doing, we examine the limited literature related to culturally responsive physical education and the especially limited literature dedicated to Aboriginal students within physical education. Recognizing that this absence should present a very obvious concern for pre-service physical education teac…
Loving and Loathing Physical Education
This article describes a recent study that investigated the physical education (PE) beliefs of a particular population of students (i.e., female and male students in Grades 4 through 10 from a single school stream). Through their completion of an adapted survey, students (N = 506) were able to share their PE beliefs in relation to five separate subscales: PE Interest, PE Status, PE Connotations, PE Teachers, and PE Curriculum. Results suggest tha…
Discourse, Teacher Identity, and the Implementation of Daily Physical Activity
The intent of this article is to generate thought and discussion about Alberta Education’s Daily Physical Activity (DPA) initiative. Compelling reasons as to why the implementation process may be considered problematic are presented as the role and influence of institutional discourse in the implementation of new programming is explored. Through a discussion of the dominant discourses of authority, experience, and the physical education professio…
Oxford Classical Texts
The Syrian Canadian Sports Club
In this paper, we share the rationale, process, and results related to a community-based participatory action research (PAR) project in which we, among other things, aimed to attend to the underrepresentation of newcomer youth in community sport and recreation pursuits. By way of engaging with one rural county's Syrian youth refugee population while also attending closely to a social ecological framework, we first identified obstacles and opportu…
Charting a Course for Culturally Responsive Physical Education
In this article, we explore the absence of understanding related to culturally responsive pedagogy in physical education for Aboriginal students. In so doing, we examine the limited literature related to culturally responsive physical education and the especially limited literature dedicated to Aboriginal students within physical education. Recognizing that this absence should present a very obvious concern for pre-service physical education teac…
Game Changers
IntroductionAlthough school communities may be required to provide physical education opportunities for all students-including for those with disabilities-the same is not generally true with respect to school sport (i.e., participation in interscholastic or intramural sport programs). Hence, opportunities for inclusive school sport participation are consequently limited. Recognizing the need for continued attention and action in this area, we rec…
Single-sex education in the 21st century
Oxford Classical Texts
Discourse, Teacher Identity, and the Implementation of Daily Physical Activity
The intent of this article is to generate thought and discussion about Alberta Education’s Daily Physical Activity (DPA) initiative. Compelling reasons as to why the implementation process may be considered problematic are presented as the role and influence of institutional discourse in the implementation of new programming is explored. Through a discussion of the dominant discourses of authority, experience, and the physical education professio…
Loving and Loathing Physical Education
This article describes a recent study that investigated the physical education (PE) beliefs of a particular population of students (i.e., female and male students in Grades 4 through 10 from a single school stream). Through their completion of an adapted survey, students (N = 506) were able to share their PE beliefs in relation to five separate subscales: PE Interest, PE Status, PE Connotations, PE Teachers, and PE Curriculum. Results suggest tha…
Charting a Course for Culturally Responsive Physical Education
In this article, we explore the absence of understanding related to culturally responsive pedagogy in physical education for Aboriginal students. In so doing, we examine the limited literature related to culturally responsive physical education and the especially limited literature dedicated to Aboriginal students within physical education. Recognizing that this absence should present a very obvious concern for pre-service physical education teac…
Telling and selling
In recent times, not-for-profit organisations have been partnering with for-profit corporations to create educational resources. This has been especially true in physical and health education, particularly within Canada. For example, Physical and Health Education Canada has recently endorsed a number of corporate-sponsored educational resources related to health and wellness. Given this observation, we have recognised a need to theorise about how…
Exploring the Factors that Influence Female Students’ Decision to (Not) Enrol in Elective Physical Education
This article presents the results from a qualitative case study that examined the influencers upon a somewhat unique group of female students who opted out of elective physical education (PE). More specifically, this study focused upon female students attending an affluent private school, investigating why—when they transitioned from middle school to senior high school and PE became optional—they opted out of the class. Employing a research desig…
“There Is a Difference”
Jeff Orr, Daniel B. Robinson, Lisa Lunney Borden, Jennifer Tinkham, “There Is a Difference”: Mi'kmaw Students' Perceptions and Experiences in a Public School and in a Band-Operated School, Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 55-80
Why play outside? Problematising outdoor play as a biopedagogical task
Although outdoor play has been widely recognised for the many benefits it affords children, some have rationalised the need for it based on goals related to physical health. More specifically, these instrumental goals have been closely related to obesity, overweight, and/or physical (in)activity. Adhering to obesity discourses and the notion of a childhood obesity epidemic, such instrumentalisation of outdoor play unnecessarily positions it as a …
Teaching outside of the box
This article reports on results from a qualitative study of a two-week international internship for pre-service and in-service physical education (PE) teachers in a developing nation (Belize). Relying upon data from questionnaires that were administered before and after the short-term international internship, participants’ perspectives related to their professional and personal development were investigated. Understanding the overlap that necess…
At My Best 4-5-6
Background and context: At My Best 4-5-6 is a curriculum-support resource intended primarily for elementary generalist or physical and health education specialist teachers in Canada. Created by Physical and Health Education Canada and AstraZeneca, At My Best 4-5-6 aims to educate students about—and encourage healthy behaviours related to—physical activity, healthy eating, and emotional wellness. Objective: At My Best 4-5-6 is a relatively new pro…
The Syrian Canadian Sports Club
In this paper, we share the rationale, process, and results related to a community-based participatory action research (PAR) project in which we, among other things, aimed to attend to the underrepresentation of newcomer youth in community sport and recreation pursuits. By way of engaging with one rural county's Syrian youth refugee population while also attending closely to a social ecological framework, we first identified obstacles and opportu…
Alternative environment activities on both sides of the Atlantic
Due to the overemphasis of traditional sports at the expense of other movement domains in physical education (PE) programmes, there is a need to consider what factors might enable or limit PE teachers’ incorporation of some of these other domains that can support student learning. The focus of this article is on one such marginalized domain – alternative environment activities (AEAs). AEAs can afford students a breadth of opportunities for modera…
Single-sex education in the 21st century
Alternative Environment Activities in Physical Education
This article discusses the importance of PE teacher embracement of AEAs, provides several specific practical examples for PE teachers looking to enhance AEA inclusion in their PE programs, and concludes with practical strategies to help overcome common PE teacher-cited barriers related to embracing AEAs
Game Changers
IntroductionAlthough school communities may be required to provide physical education opportunities for all students-including for those with disabilities-the same is not generally true with respect to school sport (i.e., participation in interscholastic or intramural sport programs). Hence, opportunities for inclusive school sport participation are consequently limited. Recognizing the need for continued attention and action in this area, we rec…
Exploring adolescents’ perspectives of single-sex schooling
This paper focuses on the perspectives of adolescents attending a private Christian single-sex secondary school. The research literature into the impact of single-sex schooling upon learners, while plentiful, is equivocal and few scholars have delved into the views of adolescents in such contexts. To demonstrate their perspectives of single-sex schooling, the findings are represented as poetry clusters, grouped together to highlight the ways in w…
Single-Sex schooling at an Elite Independent School
This article focuses upon the milieu of single-sex schooling within an elite independent school in a Canadian urban centre. This research served as an exploratory and critical examination of single-sex schooling in a specific context, and considered its relevance, pedagogical effectiveness, and ability to meet its purported goals. Using an interpretative methodological framework, and employing a multi-methods case study design, the purpose of thi…
Feelings, Realizations, and Reflections of a Female Physical Education Teacher Confronting Experiences of Institutional(ized) Gender Inequality
This autoethnographic study intertwines personal experience with scholarly inquiry, inviting a deep exploration of the lived experiences and realities of a female physical education (PE) teacher. Wonderings about identities, conformity to masculine norms, and proving oneself to staff and students led to a review of relevant literature, journal entries, and meaningful conversations with critical friends. Through analysis and coding of emotions and…
Trauma-informed practices and physical education
Children and youth around the world are experiencing trauma to the extent that it has been labeled a global health concern ( O’Toole, 2022 ). Physical education (PE) teachers, among others, are attempting to respond to this concern by implementing research-based trauma-informed practices (TIPs). The purpose of this paper was to conduct a scoping review to gather and synthesize the literature on TIPs appropriate for the PE context within the K-12 …
Voices from the field
Purpose Health education is often undervalued in school systems, despite addressing broad and complex learning outcomes essential for students' development and well-being. In order to gain an understanding of the current state of health education in Canada, this study examined health education teachers' perspectives about how health education is being delivered in K-12 schools. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through an online sur…
Health education teachers' views on supports and barriers to health education programs
Purpose Health education (HE) is an integral component of supporting students' overall well-being. However, teachers have identified concerns related to teaching HE. To understand these concerns, this research examined multilevel supports and barriers to the implementation of HE. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via an online survey (open-ended and closed-Likert scale questions) from 120 Canadian HE teachers. Findings Descriptive s…
The unstable foundation of health education
A significant challenge in Canada is the absence of provincial or territorial guidelines requiring teachers to receive health education training in postsecondary initial teacher education programs. To understand the extent of health education preparation across the country, we surveyed personnel from postsecondary initial teacher education programs. Specifically, we investigated the availability of health education curriculum and instruction/peda…
Psychology (17 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Pedagogy (12 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Medical education (8 works) · Mathematics education (6 works) · Physical education (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)