Champions of Inclusion and Diversity using Meaningful Physical Education

What is CHAMP-INC-MPE?

The overall aim of CHAMP-INC-MPE is to support primary teachers to implement Meaningful Physical Education (PE) in a way that is inclusive and accounts for the diversity of the student population. Our proposal adopts the Meaningful PE framework as a foundational conceptual and practical guide. The personalisation and individualisation of experiences that is offered by the Meaningful PE framework has potential to reach these children who are currently being discounted. To achieve this overall aim, the purpose of CHAMP-INC-MPE is to support collaboration between 10 Champion teachers and teacher educator partners in five countries (Ireland, Spain, Denmark, Norway and North Macedonia) to develop, implement  and share pedagogies of Meaningful PE. Teachers will explore how the Meaningful PE approach - which consists of democratic and reflective pedagogies - can be implemented in order to specifically promote more inclusive and equitable experiences for children in physical education. Primary teachers will be supported to master these ideas towards becoming a ‘Champion’ of Meaningful PE.  'Champions' are defined as teachers who know about, successfully implement, advocate and share their experiences of Meaningful PE. Champion teachers will contribute to evidence gathering, dissemination and multiplier activities to support other teachers to implement Meaningful PE with transformative effects on PE.

The project includes:

• Two Transnational project meetings in year 1 (Ireland) and year 3 (Spain)
• Online training (LTA1) and teacher-teacher educator interactions (LTA2) alongside collection of evidence in support of pedagogies
• Co-production of Blog posts (DA 1) and  pedagogical case studies (DA 2)
• Development of a Capstone resource (DA 3) on how to teach Meaningful PE
• Capstone webinar to accompany DA 3
• 2 Peer review journal articles
• Multiplier sharing event for teachers (ME 2) in each implementation country hosted by the Champion teachers to engage other teachers and policy makers.
• Multiplier sharing event for teacher educators (ME 3) in each implementation country

(Project Reference 2023-1-IE01-KA220-SCH-000154934)

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