LECTURER IN HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND, Armidale, New South Wales

LECTURER IN HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

ACU Ref: 58478
Closing Date: 4 April 2011

School of Education

The School of Education focuses on early childhood, primary and secondary teacher education and offers courses both on campus and by flexible distance education to Australian and international students. The School provides ongoing professional learning for teachers in Graduate Certificate, Masters degree and short non-award courses. We are also a research School, emphasising issues in rural and regional education with strengths in other areas including English and literacy education, student diversity and disability studies, health and physical education and improving schooling in developing countries.

The School of Education is seeking to appoint an innovative academic to the teaching and researching team of Health, Physical Education and Sports Studies (HPESS) discipline. The HPESS academics teach in a number of undergraduate and postgraduate awards for primary and potentially secondary teacher education, in the on-campus and online mode of delivery. Team members teach across a range of units including: primary school Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) curriculum and pedagogy; motor development; skill acquisition; socialisation and sport; secondary school sport education; health promotion and sport education pedagogy.

The HPESS team are active researchers in related fields of motor development, children’s coordination levels; Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO) and the sensorimotor mode of learning; pre-service teacher education and Physical Education within rural and regional contexts.

Informal inquiries may be directed to the Head of the School of Education telephone +61 2 6773 2677, email education@une.edu.au. For further information about the School visit: www.une.edu.au/education/.

Salary: A$74,438 to A$88,222 per annum (Lecturer Level) plus 17% employer superannuation and optional salary packaging

Closing Date: 4 April 2011

Reference No: 211/021i

An application package, including selection criteria that must be addressed, may be obtained from www.une.edu.au/recruit or by phoning Human Resource Services, +61 2 6773 3972. Applications will be received up to 5pm on the closing date.

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