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May 25th
Auditorium Utsikt
8:30-9:00
Welcome Address - Reidar Säfvenbom and Stephanie Beni
Part One: The Theoretical Position of Meaning and Meaningfulness in PE
9:00-10:20 Session 1
Presentation 1: Meaningful PE: An overview
Tim Fletcher (Brock University), Deirdre NiChroinin (Mary Immaculate College) and Stephanie Beni (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)
Presentation 2: Transactional Movement Learning and educative functions of the aesthetic soundscape of the PE classroom
Joacim Andersson (Malmö University)
10:20-10:40 - Break
10:40-12:00 Session 2
Presentation 3: Meaningful PE and the ‘content’ of PE
Håkan Larsson (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)
Presentation 4: Growing playgrounds in PE - On the role of practising (øving) for meaningful experiences
Kenneth Aggerholm (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:55 Session 3
Presentation 5: Positive movement experiences and Meaningful PE: A human development approach
Jennifer Agans (Pennsylvania State University) and Reidar Säfvenbom (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences)
Part Two: Research on Meaningfulness in PE in Scandinavian Context
13:55-15:15 Session 4
Presentation 6: Teaching Meaningful PE in primary school in Denmark – A phenomenological grounded action research study
Esben Volshøj (VIA University College, Denmark; NIH, Norway)
Presentation 7: Adolescents’ meaning-making experiences in physical education, in the transition from primary to secondary school
Hilde Kristin Mikalsen and Pål Lagestad (Nord University, Norway)
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:10 Session 5
Presentation 8: Towards stronger physical activity relationship (PAR)
Pasi Koski (University of Turku, Finland)
16:10-16:30 Concluding Comments
19:30 Evening Social
May 26th
Auditorium Utsikt
Meaningful PE in International Context
8:00-9:30 Session 6 New Directions
Presentation 1: Meaningfulness in organized youth sport
Mats Hordvik and Bård Erlend Solstad, NIH
Presentation 2: Enacting Meaningful Physical Education and social justice pedagogies in physical education teacher education
Carla Luguetti (Victoria University, Australia) & Cassandra Iannucci (Deakin University, Australia)
Presentation 3: Rethinking classification systems in PE: Implications for meaningfulness
Justen O’Connor (Monash University, Australia)
9:30-9:45 Break
9:45-11:45 Session 7 Practitioner Research on Meaningful PE
Presentation 1: Practical Applications of the MPE framework in school-based PE
Ty Riddick (Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Canada), Mel Hamada (International School of Beijing, China), Leticia Cariño (International School of Phnom Penh, Cambodia) & Jo Bailey (D.C. Everest School District, USA)
Presentation 2: Designing a PETE programme around the pedagogical principles of LAMPE
Alex Beckey (St. Mary’s Univeristy, UK) & Declan Hamblin (Kingston University, UK)
Maura Coulter (Dublin City University, Ireland), Tony Sweeney (Maynooth University, Ireland) & Richard Bowles (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)
11:45-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:45 Session 8
Graduate Student and Early Career Researcher Presentations
Grace Cardiff (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)
Juliet Patterson (Plymouth Marjon University, England)
Donal Howley (Towson University, USA)
Jodi Harding-Kuriger (University of Alberta, Canada)
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:45 Panel Discussion - Future Possibilities
A roundtable discussion
15:45-16:00 Closing Address