Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Abstract
In recent years in tertiary institutions in Australia, there has been a large increase of enrolments in Education courses delivered via an online/external mode. This has raised a number of concerns around the nexus of theory and practice and whether pre-service teachers feel ready to teach after completing Education study online. The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service teachers’ perceived readiness to teach Health and Physical Education (HPE) after engaging with the subject fully in an online tertiary environment. 26 pre-service teachers studying education online from two separate were involved in this study. Upon completion of the University semester and also after a practicum placement, qualitative data was collected detailing the pre-service teachers’ perceptions in regard to their readiness to teach HPE. Pre-service teachers’ perceptions are used as the primary data highlighting the varying levels of readiness to teach HPE.
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McMahon, Jennifer A. and Dinan Thompson, Maree
(2014)
"Health and Physical Education and the Online Tertiary Environment at Two Universities: Pre-service Teachers’ Perceived ‘Readiness’ to Teach HPE,"
Australian Journal of Teacher Education: Vol. 39
:
Iss.
3
, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14221/ajte.2014v39n3.4
Available at:
https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/vol39/iss3/6