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Building Capacity: New Directions in Physical Education Teacher Education

Building Capacity: New Directions in Physical Education Teacher Education
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Author(s): Wendy Barber (Ontario Tech University, Canada), William Walters (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), Danielle Bates (Ontario Tech University, Canada), Kat Waterbury (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)and Caleb Poulin (Ontario Tech University, Canada)
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 26
Source title: Global Innovations in Physical Education and Health
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Manuel B. Garcia (FEU Institute of Technology, Philippines)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-3952-7.ch018

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Abstract

This chapter explores the pressing need for innovative pre-service physical education teacher education (PETE) that challenges preservice teachers (PSTs) to take ownership of their learning in broad, collaborative ways that immediately connect their learning processes to other PSTs and local community-based PE resources nationwide. The authors describe a pedagogical model for PETE that is currently in ten Canadian universities, a rapidly growing national body of locally developed student leadership communities that is supported by national professional organizations (Physical and Health Education (PHE) Canada and PHE Canada Research Council. PHE Canada Student Chapters are a new phenomenon in Canadian universities (2023-2024), and represent groups of 5-8 PSTs in each university faculty, taking executive leadership roles within their respective university student unions. The chapter includes emphasis on real world practice, with voices of student leaders expressing lessons learned in the process of running chapters at their respective universities.

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