School Physical Education and Teacher Education

Ann MacPhail is a Physical Education Teacher Educator in the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland.Hal A. Lawson is Professor of Social Welfare and Educational Policy and Leadership at the University at Albany-SUNY, USA.

• 1. Grand Challenges as Catalysts for the Collaborative Redesign of Physical Education, Teacher Education, and Research and Development, 2. The Aims and Outcomes Challenge: Preparing Physical Education Teacher Educators and Teachers for 21st Century Redesign Imperatives and Accountability Requirements, 3. The Standards-based Curricular Reform Challenge: Shared Responsibility through Networking, 4. The Alignment and Coherence Challenge: Developing University-School Partnerships for the Simultaneous Improvement and Redesign of School Programmes and Teacher Education, 5. The Innovation Challenge: Maintaining Programme Standards and Developing Cohesion While Developing and Testing Alternative Designs in New Kinds of Schools, 6. The Interdisciplinary Challenge: Preparing Teacher Educators and Teachers to Span Knowledge, Organisational and International Boundaries, 7. The Professional Socialisation Challenge: Teacher Education for a Preferable Future for Physical Education, 8. Cultural Competence Challenge: Readying Schools and University Programmes for Student, Teacher, and Faculty Diversity, 9. The Digital Age Challenge: Preparing Physical and Health Educators to Understand and Support ‘Online’ Youth, 10. The PE School Curriculum Challenge: The Shared Construction, Implementation and Enactment of School Physical Education Curriculum, 11. The Research and Development Challenge: Better Aligning Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Needs, Priorities and Demands, 12. The Evidence-based Decision-making Challenge: Developing Research-supported, Data-informed, Structures and Strategies in Schools and Teacher Education Programmes, 13. The Professional Development Challenge: Achieving Desirable Outcomes for Students, Teachers, and Teacher Educators, 14. The Public Policy Challenge: Preparing and Supporting Teacher Educators and Teachers as Change Agents and Policy Entrepreneurs, 15. Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn During Turbulent Times, 16. Developing Commitments and Capacity to Learn With, and From, Each Other

"As a fellow academic and practitioner within the field it is a very pleasing thought that during the work with this anthology, the co-authors have created 12-15 local projects in which academics and schoolteachers gathered in a joint effort to develop education and give children a promising future. I guess very few academic books can claim to beat that." - Joacim Andersson, idrottsforum.org