School of Education

Professor

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, England.
• Bachelor of Arts Honours, England.

Research

Recent Research Grants

• Informal sport as a health and social resource for diverse young people,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2019 - 2021,  $494,122.
• School‐based provision of physical activity for students with disability,  Department of Education NSW,  Grant,  2020,  $64,454.
• Compulsory science and mathematics subjects in senior secondary school in other jurisdictions,  Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation,  Grant,  2018 - 2019,  $46,756.
• School Swimming and Water Safety Program Evaluative Assessment,  Department of Education NSW,  Grant,  2019,  $59,627.
• Quality enhancement of AUSTSWIM swimming and water safety teacher training: A national research and development initiative.,  Edith Cowan University,  ECU Industry Collaboration Grant - 2017 Open Round,  2017 - 2019,  $187,175.
• Carlile Swimming Archive Project: Phase 1,  Carlile Support Pty Ltd,  Grant,  2017 - 2018,  $12,100.
• Investigating the feasibility of using digital representations of work for authentic and reliable performance assessment in senior secondary school courses,  Australian Research Council,  Grant - Linkage (Projects),  2007 - 2011,  $714,679.
• Sport Education - Korea Australia collaborative project,  Korean Research Foundation,  Grant,  2003 - 2004,  $11,689.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Books

• Brown, TD., Penney, D., (2018), Examination physical education: Policy, pedagogies and possibilities. Routledge studies in physical education and youth sport, 264, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge.
• Leahy, D., Burrows, L., McCuaig, L., Wright, J., Penney, D., (2016), School health education in changing times: Curriculum, pedagogies and partnerships. Routledge Research in Education, 153, London, UK, Routledge, DOI: 10.4324/9781315887449.

Book Chapters

• Dinan Thompson, M., Penney, D., (2018), Assessment and Standards. Routledge Handbook of Primary Physical Education, 74-85, Oxfordshire, UK, Routledge.
• Zehntner, C., Penney, D., (2018), Athlete-centred coaching: Tensions and opportunities arising in the masters context. Perspectives on athlete-centred coaching, 206-216, London, UK, Routledge.
• Penney, D., Dinan Thompson, M., (2018), Curriculum drivers. Routledge Handbook of Primary Physical Education, 51-60, Oxfordshire, UK, Routledge.
• Penney, D., (2018), Health and physical education: Transformative potential, propositions and pragmatics. The Australian Curriculum: Promises, problems and possibilities, 103-114, ACT, Australia, Australian Curriculum Studies Association.
• Penney, D., Mitchell, S., (2017), Reforming curricula from the outside-in. Routledge handbook of physical education pedagogies, 157-172, Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
• Penney, D., (2017), Policy and possibilities. Routledge handbook of physical education pedagogies, 131-142, Abingdon, UK, Routledge.
• Branson, C., Franken, M., Penney, D., (2016), Reconceptualising middle leadership in higher education: A transrelational approach. Values and virtues in higher education: Critical perspectives, 155-170, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, Routledge.
• Cowie, B., Penney, D., (2016), Challenges, tensions and possibilities: An analysis of assessment policy and practice in New Zealand. Leadership of assessment, inclusion, and learning, 287-304, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23347-5_12.

Journal Articles

• Wilkinson, S., Penney, D., (2020), Setting policy and student agent in physical education: Students as policy actors. Sport, Education and Society, N/A(N/A), 1-14, Online.
• Lambert, K., Penney, D., (2019), Curriculum interpretation and policy enactment in health and physical education: Researching teacher educators as policy actors. Sport, Education and Society, online(n/a), 1-18, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2019.1613636.
• Hammond, A., Jeanes, R., Penney, D., Leahy, D., (2019), "I feel we are inclusive enough": Examining swimming coaches' understandings of inclusion and disability. Sociology of Sport Journal, 36(4), 311-321, online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2018-0164.
• Alfrey, L., O'Connor, J., Phillipson, S., Penney, D., Jeanes, R., Phillipson, S., (2019), Attitudes of pre-service physical education teachers to healthism: Development and validation of the Attitude Towards Healthism Scale (ATHS). European Physical Education Review, 25(1), 424-437, Sage Publications, DOI: 10.1177/1356336X17742665.
• Makopoulou, K., Penney, D., Neville, R., Thomas, G., (2019), What sort of ‘inclusion’ is continuing professional development promoting? An investigation of a national CPD programme for inclusive physical education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, Online(N/A), 1-18, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2019.1647297.
• Jeanes, R., Spaaij, R., Penney, D., O'Connor, J., (2019), Managing informal sport participation: Tensions and opportunities. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 11(1), 79-95, United Kingdom, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2018.1479285.
• Jones, A., Penney, D., (2019), Investigating the ‘integration of theory and practice’ in examination physical education. European Physical Education Review, 25(4), 1036–1055, Sage Publications Ltd, DOI: 10.1177/1356336X18791195.
• Hammond, A., Penney, D., Jeanes, R., (2019), Sport coaches as policy actors: an investigation of the interpretation and enactment of disability and inclusion policy in swimming in Victoria Australia. Sport, Education and Society, n/a(n/a), 1-16, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1628013.
• Pope, CC., Penney, D., Smith, TB., (2018), Overtraining and the complexities of coaches' decision-making: Managing elite athletes on the training cusp. Reflective Practice, 19(2), 145-166, United Kingdom, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2017.1361923.
• Penney, D., Jeanes, R., O'Connor, J., Alfrey, L., (2018), Re-theorising inclusion and reframing inclusive practice in physical education. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 22(10), 1062-1077, Online, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2017.1414888.
• Barwood, D., Penney, D., Cunningham, C., (2017), A paradox or a culture of acceptance? The idiosyncratic workforce delivering health education in lower secondary government schools in Western Australia. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 8(3), 193-209, Melbourne, Victoria, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/18377122.2017.1362955.
• Leahy, D., Penney, D., Welch, R., (2017), Schooling health: The critical contribution of curriculum in the 1980s. History of Education Review, 46(2), 224-235, Bingley, United Kingdom, Emerald Publishing Ltd., DOI: 10.1108/HER-03-2016-0016.
• Brown, T., Penney, D., (2017), Interpretation and enactment of senior secondary physical education: Pedagogic realities and the expression of Arnoldian dimensions of movement. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 22(2), 121-136, Oxon, United Kingdom, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2015.1123239.
• Pill, S., Swabey, K., Penney, D., (2017), Investigating physical education teacher use of models based practice in Australian secondary PE. PHEnex Journal, 9(1), 19p.,  Physical and Health Education Canada.
• Penney, D., (2017), Big policies and a small world: An analysis of policy problems and solutions in physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 22(5), 569-585, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1242066.
• Wilkinson, S., Penney, D., Allin, L., (2016), Setting and within-class ability grouping: A survey of practices in physical education. European Physical Education Review, 22(3), 336-354, DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15610784.
• Bransom, C., Franken, M., Penney, D., (2016), Middle leadership in higher education: A relational analysis. Educational Management Administration and Leadership, 44(1), 128-145, DOI: 10.1177/1741143214558575.
• Franken, M., Branson, C., Penney, D., (2016), A theory-to-practice leadership learning arrangement in a university context. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2016(24 October), 15p., Online, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2016.1247196.
• O'Connor, JP., Penney, D., Alfrey, L., Phillipson, S., Phillipson, SN., Jeanes, R., (2016), The development of the stereotypical attitudes in HPE scale. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 41(7), 70-87, Australia, Social Science Press, DOI: 10.14221/ajte.2016v41n7.5.
• Wilkinson, SD., Penney, D., (2016), The involvement of external agencies in extra-curricular physical education: Reinforcing or challenging gender and ability inequities?. Sport, Education and Society, 21(5), 741-758, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2014.956714.
• Penney, D., McMahon, J., (2016), High-performance sport, learning and culture: New horizons for sport pedagogues?. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 21(1), 81-88, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2015.1072511.
• Penney, D., Petrie, K., Fellowes, S., (2015), HPE in Aotearoa New Zealand: The reconfiguration of policy and pedagogic relations and privatization of curriculum and pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 20(1), 42-56, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2014.947566.
• Dinan Thompson, M., Penney, D., (2015), Assessment literacy in primary physical education. European Physical Education Review, 21(4), 485-503, DOI: 10.1177/1356336X15584087.
• McMahon, JA., Penney, D., (2015), Sporting parents on the pool deck: Living out a sporting culture?. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 7(2), 153-169, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2014.901985.
• Franken, M., Penney, D., Branson, C., (2015), Middle leaders' learning in a university context. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 37(2), 190-203, Routledge, DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2015.1019120.

Conference Publications

• Jones, A., Penney, D., (2015), The integration of theory and practice as a central focus for senior schooling Physical Education. Proceedings of the 29th ACHPER International Conference: Values into Action - A Brighter Future, 12-22, Kent Town, South Australia, Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER).

Research Student Supervision

Principal Supervisor

• Master by Research, The theory-practice nexus in teacher education: A case study of a tertiary outdoor education program.
• Doctor of Education, Heads of Faculty Leading Curriculum Reform: A Case Study of Post Year 10 Mandated Curriculum Reform in a Tasmanian Secondary School.
• Doctor of Education, Performance management: A connected professional learning model.
• Doctor of Education, Children and healthy eating: A global, policy and school curriculum perspective.
• Master by Research, Understanding engagement in year 9 and 10 Physical Education: A case study.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Exposure and Effect: An Investigation into a Culture of Body Pedagogies.
• Doctor of Education, Developing the nurse professional and nurse education for the 21st Century.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Youth Sport in Trinidad and Tobago: Extending the Possibilities and Pathways for Post-Secondary School Participation.
• Master of Education,  Development of learning and learners in teacher education in the seychelles: A critical investigation.
• Master by Research, Investigating socio-critical discourses of assessment in senior Physical Education in New Zealand.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Rethinking the teaching of sport in physical education.
• Master by Research, Developing learners and learning in Teacher Education in the Seychelles: A critical investigation.
• Master by Research, Maori, gifted and talented athletes – stories of success and support.
• Master by Research, The role of Sports Education in achieving social emotional learning outcomes in the context of the new Tasmania Health and wellbeing curriculum.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Developing Social and Emotional Learning in Physical Education: The Contextualised Appropriation of Sport Education.
• Doctor of Education, Quality and performance management of Technical Education and Training in Singapore.
• Master by Research, Healthy Relationships? An examination of Health and Physical Education school-provider relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Extraordinary Outdoor Leaders: An Australian Case Study.
• Doctor of Philosophy, Physical Education, physical activity and the National Curriculum Physical Education: Policy, provision and prospects.

Co-principal Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy, Body Pedagogies: How children come to understand their bodies and their selves during and following a health intervention in a New Zealand primary school
• Doctor of Philosophy, Leisure Participation and Mental Health in Tasmania: A Lifecycle Approach.
• Doctor of Philosophy, The construction of gender relations in sport organisations.

Associate Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Perspectives on differentiation in practice: An interpretive study from teaching japanese as a second language in Western Australian secondary schools

Adjunct Supervisor

• Doctor of Philosophy,  Lost in translation? - the "integration of theory and practice" as a central focus for senior schooling physical education studies