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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

EFPM374: Current Issues in Physical Education (PE)

This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

This module includes a critical consideration of current issues in PE. A range of views will be discussed from different perspectives and an interdisciplinary and interconnected approach will be followed throughout. Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:

1: Issues surrounding the role and educational value of PE in primary and secondary schools:

(a)   Opportunities and challenges surrounding the National Curriculum for PE.

(b)   Bridging the gap between physical activity/PE and academic attainment.

(c)   Making connections between PE and other subjects within the National Curriculum (e.g. Science & Modern Foreign Languages).

2. Issues surrounding the teaching and learning of PE in primary and secondary schools:

    (a) ‘It’s not the winning but taking part that counts isn’t it?’: Competition versus cooperation in PE.

    (b) The warm-up and cool-down phases of PE lessons: Are they becoming a ‘road less travelled?’

    (c) ‘Skills-based/teacher-centred’ versus ‘Activity-based/pupil-centred’ approach/model to teaching in PE:    

    Problems and prospects.

3. Issues surrounding learnersin PE in primary and secondary schools:

    (a) Should all pupils be included in PE lessons?

    (b) How do you challenge the gifted and talented learners?

    (c) How do you involve disengaged or reluctant learners?

4. Issues surrounding teachersof PE in primary and secondary schools:

(a)  ‘PE specialist teachers in primary schools’: The shape of things to come?

(b)   Innovative ways of developing pre-service and in-service teachers’ knowledge, skills and understandings of teaching and learning in PE.

    (c) Teachers as researchers

5. Future directions in PE in primary and secondary schools.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

Exeter Learning Environment (ELE): http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

Module Drop Box for sharing resources and materials

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

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