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5970
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Overview

Richard Tinning is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily covers areas within health professions, social sciences, and psychology. The subfields of study relevant to their work include physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, sociology and political science, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and education.

Their scholarship focuses on several closely related topics: physical education and pedagogy, inclusion and disability in education and sport, motivation and self-concept in sports, sport and mega-event impacts, sport psychology and performance, reflective practices in education, and educator training and historical pedagogy.

Recent academic publications by Richard Tinning include a range of articles published between 2020 and 2022 across several journals. These works are:

  • "Kicking at the habitus: students' reading of critical pedagogy in PETE" (2020), published in Sport Education and Society
  • "Ruminations on reflection and critical pedagogy in sport coaching" (2021), published in Sports Coaching Review
  • "Falling towards academia: a memoir about the changing nature of PETE" (2022), published in Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education
  • "Moving online in physical education teacher education" (2022), published in Sport Education and Society
  • "School PE and 'fat' kids: maintaining the rage and keeping a sense of perspective" (2020), published in Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard Tinning include Rod Philpot, Wayne Smith, Gunn Nyberg, and Erik Bäckman.

In terms of publication venues, Richard Tinning's work has appeared most notably in the following journals:

  • Sport Education and Society
  • Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education
  • Sports Coaching Review
  • Quest

Best Publications

  • Pedagogy and Human Movement: Theory, Practice, Research

    Richard Tinning

  • Postmodern Youth Culture and the Crisis in Australian Secondary School Physical Education

    Richard Tinning;Lindsay Fitzclarence

  • Toward a “Modest Pedagogy”: Reflections on the Problematics of Critical Pedagogy

    Richard Tinning

  • Pedagogical work and the 'cult of the body': considering the role of HPE in the context of the 'new public health'.

    Richard Tinning;Trish Glasby

  • Physical Education, Curriculum And Culture : Critical Issues In The Contemporary Crisis

    Richard Tinning;David Kirk

  • Teacher education pedagogy: dominant discourses and the process of problem-setting.

    Richard Tinning

  • Foucault in Leotards: Corporeal Discipline in Women's Artistic Gymnastics

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti;Richard Tinning

  • Becoming a physical education teacher: Contemporary and enduring issues

    Richard Tinning;Doune Macdonald;Jan Wright;Christopher Hickey

  • Educación física, la escuela y sus profesores

    Richard Tinning

  • Reflection as situated practice: A memory-work study of lived experience in teacher education

    Alan Ovens;Richard Tinning

  • Rethinking the preparation of HPE teachers: ruminations on knowledge, identity, and ways of thinking

    Richard Tinning

  • Physical education and the cult of slenderness: a critique.

    R. Tinning

  • Learning To Teach Physical Education

    Richard Tinning;David Kirk;John Robert Evans

  • Physical Education Teacher Education-and the Trend to Proletarianization: A Case Study

    Doune Macdonald;Richard Tinning

  • Student Teaching and the Pedagogy of Necessity

    Richard I. Tinning

  • Pedagogy, Sport Pedagogy, and the Field of Kinesiology

    Richard Tinning

  • Embodied self‐identity, healthy lifestyles and school physical education

    David Kirk;Richard Tinning

  • High performance sport coaching: Institutes of sport as sites for learning

    Steven B. Rynne;Steven B. Rynne;Clifford Mallett;Richard Tinning

  • The social construction of pedagogic discourse in physical education teacher education in Australia

    David Kirk;Doune Macdonald;Richard Tinning

  • Workplace learning of high performance sports coaches

    Steven B. Rynne;Clifford J. Mallett;Richard Tinning

Frequent Co-Authors

Doune Macdonald
Doune Macdonald University of Queensland
Clifford J. Mallett
Clifford J. Mallett University of Queensland
David Kirk
David Kirk University of Strathclyde
Christopher Hickey
Christopher Hickey National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Jan Wright
Jan Wright University of Wollongong
Arjen E. J. Wals
Arjen E. J. Wals Wageningen University & Research
Jenny Ziviani
Jenny Ziviani University of Queensland
Jean Côté
Jean Côté Queen's University
Monica Cuskelly
Monica Cuskelly University of Tasmania
Peter Renshaw
Peter Renshaw University of Queensland

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