Speaker
Javier Fernández-Río
(University of Oviedo)
Description
The main objective is to facilitate radical change in physical education by developing sustainable and international collaboration between physical education (PE) and PE teacher education that results in equitable outcomes for pre-service and in-service teachers, and school children and youth.
PhysEd-Academy will develop the pedagogy of PE teacher education by identifying, developing, and testing a set of signature pedagogies that can be used across PE teacher education in Europe and the rest of the world.
Prof. del Río is a specialist in Physical Activity and Education, and he is the director of the Sport Service at the University of Oviedo (Spain).