Meaningful Physical Education

Meaningful physical education is one of the approaches to more emphasize personally relevant learning than the utilitarian health-oriented teaching in physical education. Tim Fletcher at Brook University in Canada led the group and published papers and a book about it, as well as self-study papers that is one of my interests. The post is to record major works of MPE that could be one of my frameworks for teaching and researching.

Book
Fletcher, T., Ní Chróinín, D., Gleddie, D., & Beni, S. (Eds.). (2021). Meaningful Physical Education: An Approach for Teaching and Learning (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035091
- Book review by Will Swaithes (This post well-organized the concept reveiwing the book.)
https://www.pescholar.com/insight/book-review-meaningful-physical-education/

Blog (Tim and colleague run the website called LAMPE standing for Learning About MPE)
https://meaningfulpe.wordpress.com/

Podcast in Youtbe
https://youtu.be/3uaJM-URxLY

Peer-reviewed paper
Beni, S., Fletcher, T., & Ní Chróinín, D. (2017). Meaningful experiences in physical education and youth sport: A review of the literature. Quest, 69(3), 291-312.
Ní Chróinín, D., Fletcher, T., & O’Sullivan, M. (2018). Pedagogical principles of learning to teach meaningful physical education. Physical education and sport pedagogy, 23(2), 117-133.
Beni, S., Ní Chróinín, D., & Fletcher, T. (2019). A focus on the how of meaningful physical education in primary schools. Sport, Education and Society, 24(6), 624-637.
Beni, S., Chróinín, D. N., & Fletcher, T. (2021). ‘It’s how PE should be!’: Classroom teachers’ experiences of implementing Meaningful Physical Education. European Physical Education Review, 27(3), 666-683.