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Overview of research phases.
Phase 1 - Understanding the Case.
Aim.
To learn about and understand the case study school.
Secondary research questions.
What is the participant teachers’ background?
What is current teacher practice in relation to physical education?
What are the teachers’ professional development needs?
What are the children’s practices and perspectives on physical education
and physical activity in the school?
What are the children’s health related physical measures like in
comparison to normative standards?
Methodology.
All teachers (N=28), and children (N=605) from
senior infants to
sixth class, in the study school provided participant and contextual information through
the completion of self-report,
researcher developed, questionnaires. This information
was supplemented by focus group interviews with teachers (8 interviews) to perform a
professional development needs analysis and explore further the outcomes of the survey
findings, and with children (6 interviews) to establish children’s
understanding of
physical education and to elaborate on the survey findings. A physical best day was
undertaken by all children from first to sixth class to establish health and fitness
measurements. Field notes were also kept throughout each
phase to further inform the
study.
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