TY - JOUR
T1 - Teacher educators' perspectives on the implementation of beginning teacher standards for physical education in Ireland
T2 - developing and regulating the profession?
AU - Chróinín, Déirdre Ní
AU - O'Sullivan, Mary
AU - Tormey, Roland
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The physical education teacher education community in Ireland has developed Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education (BTSfPE) at the post-primary (secondary) level. This study explored teacher educators' perspectives on how the BTSfPE could be implemented and considered the possible impact on the profession within the discourses of power. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with teacher educators in physical education (n = 13). Data were analysed inductively and trustworthiness issues were considered. 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. The teacher educators were committed to addressing issues of quality and status in physical education in Ireland. However, an agreed vision of how the teaching standards would be used to develop and regulate the profession is necessary to ensure that the intended benefits emerge.
AB - The physical education teacher education community in Ireland has developed Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education (BTSfPE) at the post-primary (secondary) level. This study explored teacher educators' perspectives on how the BTSfPE could be implemented and considered the possible impact on the profession within the discourses of power. Data collection involved semi-structured interviews with teacher educators in physical education (n = 13). Data were analysed inductively and trustworthiness issues were considered. 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. The teacher educators were committed to addressing issues of quality and status in physical education in Ireland. However, an agreed vision of how the teaching standards would be used to develop and regulate the profession is necessary to ensure that the intended benefits emerge.
KW - physical education
KW - power
KW - teaching standards
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84883486760&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02619768.2012.696191
DO - 10.1080/02619768.2012.696191
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84883486760
SN - 0261-9768
VL - 36
SP - 261
EP - 278
JO - European Journal of Teacher Education
JF - European Journal of Teacher Education
IS - 3
ER -