About

Collaborating with Teachers to foster Social Justice through Health and Physical Education

Our Mission

To Foster Equity and Social Justice through Health and Physical Education

As a learning area which privileges embodied activities and experiences, Health and Physical Education (HPE) provides the ideal educational space for fostering relationships, social cohesion and understanding. However, to deliver on these promises requires teaching practices that focus on these outcomes. The mission of PhysEquity is to create a space for a collaborative community of Health and Physical Education professionals to share ideas, resources and experiences of teaching for and about social justice in HPE. We welcome contributions from all sectors of the HPE community from early childhood through to tertiary institutions. Please help us to make HPE a subject that provides meaningful experiences for all students.

Take Action

Collect.
Contribute..
Collaborate...
Communicate....

Collect
Ideas and resources for your own classroom. All resource are downloadable and free of charge
Contribute
ideas and teaching resources. All contributors will be acknowledged (unless anonymity is requested)
Collaborate
Get involved in practitioner research that focusses on issues specific to your own teaching context
Communicate
Get involved in collaborative presentations at subject association conferences. Contact us to find out how.
Who We are

PhysEquity: A Professional Learning Community of HPE educators

Contributing to PhysEquity

The power of PhysEquity to make a difference lies in the contributions made by all members of the HPE community. All contributions will acknowledge their sources unless there is a specific request for anonymity.

Consuming PhysEquity Resources

PhysEquity is an open access website that provides free resources to all members of the HPE community

Collaborating with the PhysEquity Team

As part of a professional learning community, the PhysEquity team is interested in working with teachers and researchers who have a similar interest in social justice. Collaborate through blogs, professional learning, research projects, post graduate study.

Our Team

The people behind PhysEquity

Rod Philpot
Senior Lecturer, Sport, Health and Physical Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Rod is programme leader of the Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Education. His research focusses on social justice pedagogies in school health and physical education and inital teacher education.

Alan Ovens
Associate Professor, Sport, Health and Physical Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Alan is Discipline Leader of the Sport, Health and Physical Education Discipline Group.  His research focusses on the interacting themes of education, wellbeing and human movement.

Hayley McGlashan Fainu
Lecturer, Sport, Health and Physical Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Hayley (Te Aupōuri) teaches and researches in health education, physical education, gender and sexuality and critical ethnography.