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, 39 (3). 6. pp. 120-134.

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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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