Search results for: Chróinín D. Ní

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Teacher Educators' Perspectives on the Implementation of Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education in Ireland: Developing and Regulating the Profession?
Authors: Chróinín D. Ní, O'Sullivan Mary, Tormey Roland
The current study examined teacher educators' perspectives on how the Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education could be implemented. This study also considered the possible impact on the profession within the discourses of power. Participants suggested that the teaching standards could serve as a developmental tool to guide individual teacher education programmes and beginning teachers as well as an assessment function to support quality assurance and to hold programmes accountable.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jan. 14, 2015
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Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education: Promoting A Democratic Ideal?
Authors: Chróinín D. Ní, Tormey Roland, O’Sullivan M.
This article investigates teacher educators’ perspectives on the purposes, benefits and drawbacks of adopting a subject-specific standards-based approach in Physical Education Teacher Education in Ireland. Thirteen physical education teacher educators participated in the study. The teacher educators were supportive of adopting a standards-based approach grounded in a democratic ideology to increase accountability, enhance professionalism and improve the status of physical education in higher education and school contexts.
Published: 2012
Updated: Apr. 03, 2013