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This year’s PESP Invisible College takes place on Monday 22^nd September, at The IOE, London.  We are delighted to announce Professor Dawn Penney, one of the architects of the BERA PESP SIG will be giving the Scholar Lecture: Big policies and a small world: Physical Education without boundaries?

The day’s programme is a full, exciting, and interactive one that practitioners and scholars will enjoy.  In the afternoon Professor Doune McDonald will give an opening presentation on ‘Dreaming the impossible dream’: Key Issues for PESP.  We will be looking for everyone to contribute to discussion and debate.

Discussion groups to consider:
1. What are the key challenges and questions for physical education in next forty years in relation to: -Curriculum and policy -Teachers and teacher development -Learners and learning
2. ‘What are the landmarks in PESP research that have inspired you and your work?’
3. What might be future landmark research questions?   (attendees will be allocated to a group on the day)

Programme
10.30-11.00  Registration and tea/coffee

11.00-11.10  Welcome by the PESP SIG convenor
Tony Macfadyen

11.10-12.30  Scholar Lecture
Professor Dawn Penney

12.30 -12.45 Announcement of the PESP Paper of the Year, and Best Reviewer Award

12.45-13.45  Lunch

13.45- 15.30 Celebrating 40 years of BERA: ‘Dreaming the impossible dream’
Key Issues for PESP – Introductory Presentation: Professor Doune Macdonald
Discussion groups to consider:
1a Points made by Professor Macdonald
1b. What are the key challenges and questions for physical education in next forty years in relation to:
-Curriculum and policy
-Teachers and teacher development
-Learners and learning
2. ‘What are the landmarks in PESP research that have inspired you and your work?’
3. What might be future landmark research questions?

15.30- 16.00 Refreshments

16.00 -16.45 Group Discussion & PESP debate

16.45              Close