Publication as an agent for change across the learning landscape

1. CAPalmer@uclan.ac.uk
Going public with literacy:
Publication as an agent for change
across the learning landscape
Dr Clive Palmer & Andrew Sprake ASprake@uclan.ac.uk
Palmer, C. and Sprake, A. (2019) “Andy – tell us a story”. Going public with literacy: Publication as an agent
for change across the learning landscape. Discussion Paper at: SEDA Staff and Educational Development
Association, Spring Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference, ‘Collaboration to support the student
experience and progression’. Belfast, NI, 9th -10th May.

2. The Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies ISSN: 1754-2375

3. The Sports Monograph (2014)
The Sports Monograph (2014) represents a compendium of voices; telling
experiences and rich perspectives, all stimulated by personal involvement in sport,
Physical Education and sports culture.
120 contributors across 60 chapters - ages ranging from 6 months to 60 years
Early Years, Primary, Secondary, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, PhD students and
Early Career Researchers, and seasoned academic staff
‘In education we rarely (especially students) write anything alone’
The volume has a broad remit but a common theme, permitting a refreshing
degree of freedom for people across a wide spectrum of education to register their
thoughts and feelings about physical culture as they may have experienced it.
Chapters are generally of two styles;
Academic essays of sporting interest with critical and factual discussion,
Creative stories, poems and other biographical reflections which bring to the fore
the realities of sport and PE.
The creative stories conspicuously holding up a mirror to those theorised
experiences, revealing quite vividly the primacy, sensorial and emotional
importance of being physically educated, but through the medium of literature.

4. “Andy…tell us a story”
Going public: the publications The stories behind the stories
1. Clark, S. and Sprake, A. (2011) Fit for purpose? Fit for life? A critical review
essay. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 5, 1, 1-8.
A run-of-the mill undergraduate student who needed a confidence boost.
2. Sprake, A. and Palmer, C. (2012) A brief walk through the changing role of
Physical Education in the National Curriculum. Journal of Qualitative Research
in Sports Studies, 6, 1, 71-82.
Growing in confidence – realising I have something of value to say.
3. Sprake, A., Mack, J. and Holder, A. (2014) A world without sport (Chapter 15,
pp. 103-110). In, Palmer, C. (Ed.) The sports monograph: critical perspectives on
socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education. SSTO Publications,
Preston, UK. ISBN:978-0-9566270-6-3
Confidently supporting two undergraduate students to ‘lift’ their work.
4. Sprake, A., Wynne, N. and Wynne, L. (2014) Why do so many girls drop out
of Sport and Physical Activity following compulsory education? (Chapter 40, pp.
265-274). In, Palmer, C. (Ed.) The sports monograph: critical perspectives on
socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education. SSTO Publications,
Preston UK ISBN:978-0-9566270-6-3
Confidently supporting two undergraduates to ‘lift’ their work.
5. Sprake, A. and pupils (2014) ‘I’ve got my kit for PE Sir, but what else is
missing?’ Perceptions of Physical Education in a Secondary school (Chapter 60,
pp. 337-348). In, Palmer, C. (Ed.) The sports monograph: critical perspectives on
socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education. SSTO Publications,
Preston UK ISBN:978-0-9566270-6-3
My first publication containing primary data, obtained whilst being a Teacher
of Secondary Physical Education.

5. “Andy…tell us a story”
Going public: the publications The stories behind the stories
6. Sprake, A. and Temple, C. (2016) Physical Education or Physical
Entertainment: where’s the education in PE? Journal of Qualitative Research in
Sports Studies, 10, 1, 157-176.
My critical lenses are starting to sharpen in focus, with more critique and
commentary about the state and status of PE in schools.
7. Keeling, J., Sprake, A., Palmer, G. and Palmer, C. (2017) In conversation with
PE, learning and school. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 11, 1,
105-120.
A creative opportunity to intertwine PE narratives with colleagues, and the
daughter of a colleague!
8. Palmer, C. and Sprake, A. (2018) Physical Education or Physical
Entertainment? The hunt for Physical Evidence of learning in school (pp: 295-
310). In, Scheuer, C., Bund, A. and Holzweg, M. (Eds.) Changes in childhood and
adolescence: current challenges for Physical Education. Logos Verlag Berlin.
ISBN: 978-3-8325-4697-7
An international opportunity to publish my growing curiosity and confident
critique.
9. Comber, A. and Sprake, A. (2018) Pink whistles and pocket mirrors: why is
the FA reproducing gender stereotypes? Journal of Qualitative Research in
Sports Studies, 12, 1, 305-310.
An opportunity to support an undergraduate student who, like me, needed a
confidence boost.
10. Sprake, A. and Palmer, C. (2018) Physical Education: the allegory of the
classroom. Journal of Qualitative Research in Sports Studies, 12, 1, 57-78.
A philosophical discussion about PE, using primary data collected in the first
phase of my PhD.
11. Sprake, A. and Palmer, C. (2018) Physical Education is just as important as
any other school subject. The Conversation posted 3rd October [online].
Available at: http://theconversation.com/physical-education-is-just-as-
important-as-any-other-school-subject-103187 (Accessed 8th October. 2018)
A very public critique of PE via ‘The Conversation’, with over 80,000 reads
worldwide.

6. “Tell us your stories…”
• Trilogy of pedagogy – realised through literacy
1. In response to a request/task, student’s assignment yields something interesting, worth saying, worth sharing
2. A mentor develops the work, honing, shaping polishing, developing academic confidence
3. Once published the article can then influence new readers; key reading, student voice,
comprehended at their level, teacher proud to be associated with this work – stand by our
teaching (and responses to it) publically.