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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.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Health and Physical Education; online; readiness; narrative
Research Division:	Education
Research Group:	Curriculum and pedagogy
Research Field:	Physical education and development curriculum and pedagogy
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	Teaching and curriculum
Objective Field:	Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	McMahon, JA (Associate Professor Jennifer McMahon)
ID Code:	88318
Year Published:	2014
Deposited By:	Education
Deposited On:	2014-01-28
Last Modified:	2017-11-09
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