In the earlier chapters of this book, you will have noted that those sport pedagogy scholars
who have conducted teacher socialization research using occupational socialization theory …

This paper takes up Grumet and Yates' challenge to understand curriculum as “a projection
towards a future as well as a drawing from the past”(2011, p. 245), exploring some of the …

Pre-service teachers bring to their university studies particular world views and
understandings of themselves and others around health and physical activity. Their …

This chapter explores the notion of teacher professional identity, reporting on a three-year
study that sought to understand the formation and mediation of professional identity for …

Many countries are reviewing science education programmes and implementing new
pedagogical paradigms aimed at reversing a trend of declining enrolments. A key factor in …

Futures studies is usually a transdisciplinary study and as such embraces the physical world
of the sciences and system sciences and the subjective world of individuals and cultures, as …

Recent scholarship has identified the emergence of a new modality of policy work: the
mediatisation of policy. This paper provides an Australian case study which reports on the …

The state of Middle Schooling in many Western countries has been described as under
threat, at a crossroads and like a wasteland. Within Australia, it has also been claimed that …

This chapter describes the fundamentals of social and emotional learning (SEL) and its
benefits within educational contexts. An argument is presented for the visibility and centrality …

In this paper, we draw on accounts from students to inform a Middle Schooling movement
that has been variously described as “arrested”,“unfinished” and “exhausted”. We propose …