Dr Trent Brown - Researcher Profile

Biography

Trent is a Lecturer in Physical Education with teaching responsibilities in movement and sport education, as well as physical education and sport pedagogy. He has worked at Monash University for the past 8 years and has acted as Lecturer and Course Coordinator/Advisor in the Bachelor of Sport and Outdoor Recreation programs. During this time he has been a member of the program, professional placements reference group, admissions and scholarships, environment and resources and development committees and subcommittees within the Faculty. Over the past 3 years he has also acted as course selection officer. Furthermore he was an integral part of the Sport and Outdoor Recreation course reconceptualisation and subsequent review of the course by the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) during 2006-2007.

More broadly he has been involved in the professional organisation for physical education and health in Victoria for the past 15 years, the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER) and is serving his third term as Board member of Victorian branch. As part of this role he is currently engaged as a member of the National Curriculum working party along with other academics in the field of physical education, aimed at developing a set of key guidelines that will act as a catalyst for the inclusion of physical education in the proposed National Curriculum for Australia.

Recently Trent was invited to be a Panel member discussing the importance of Health and Physical Education in the National Curriculum at the 27th ACHPER International Conference in Adelaide.

Research & Supervision Interests

Trent's research interests lie primarily in physical education and sport pedagogy, professional practice and curriculum development. His stream of research focuses on the importance of physical education and physical education teacher education (PETE) in the creation of meaningful, active and healthy lives as it pertains to education. Traditionally, in schools and pre-service teacher education, the discourses of physical education have been heavily shaped by sports, fitness, skills and drills and a culture of competition, with limited focus on the lived experience of the student. Trent is interested in examining the complex educational and philosophical justification(s) of physical education and is interested in exploring how a post-traditional physical education, via differing pedagogical approaches (SEPEP, phenomenological pedagogy, thematic approaches to teaching, HRE) can provide understandings to the meanings of movement for children and adolescents.

Trent is also involved as reviewer for several national and international journals related to sport, physical activity and physical education including: Preventive Medicine, Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal and Perceptual and Motor Skills.

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: RMIT University

Year awarded: 2004

BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE (PHYSICAL EDUCATION)

Institution: RMIT University

Year awarded: 1996

Publications

Book Chapters

Brown, T.D., 2007, Australian Government policy on sport and health promotion: A look at 'Active Australia', in Sport and physical activity: The Role of Health Promotion, eds J. Merchant, B. Griffin and A. Charnock, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, pp. 282-296.

Journal Articles

Brown, T.D., 2012, Have we lost our way? The importance of joyful and meaningful engagement in physical education, ACHPER Active and Healthy Magazine [P], vol 19, issue 1, Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Inc. (ACHPER), Australia, pp. 9-10.

Brown, T.D., 2012, Injecting meaning into physical education, Active Education [P], vol 35, Australian Media Group, Australia, pp. 60-62.

Brown, T., 2011, More than glimpses in the mirror: an argument for self-study in the professional learning of physical education teachers, Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education [P], vol 2, issue 1, Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Inc. (ACHPER), Australia, pp. 19-32.

O'Connor, J., Brown, T.D., 2010, Riding with the sharks: Serious leisure cyclist's perceptions of sharing the road with motorists, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport [P], vol 13, issue 1, Elsevier, Australia, pp. 53-58.

Brown, T.D., Mainsbridge, C., Kohe, G., 2009, Book reviews: Understanding physical education, Sport, Education and Society [P], vol 14, issue 4, Routledge - Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 481-484.

Brown, T.D., Payne, P.G., 2009, Conceptualizing the phenomenology of movement in physical education: Implications for pedagogical inquiry and development, Quest [P], vol 61, issue 4, Human Kinetics, Champaign, Il USA, pp. 418-441.

Brown, T.D., O'Connor, J., Barkatsas, A., 2009, Instrumentation and motivations for organised cycling: The development of the cyclist motivation instrument (CMI), Journal of Sports Science and Medicine [P], vol 8, issue 2, Asist Group, Ankara, Turkey, pp. 211-218.

Brown, T.D., 2008, Movement and meaning-making in physical education, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, vol 55, issue 2/3, Australian Council for Health Physical Education and Recreation Inc, Hindmarsh, South Australia, pp. 5-9.

O'Connor, J., Brown, T.D., 2007, Real cyclists don't race: Informal affiliations of the weekend warrior, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, vol 42, issue 1, SAGE Publications, http://irs.sagepub.com/content/vol42/issue1/, pp. 83-97.

Brown, T.D., Holland, B.V., 2005, Student physical activity and lesson context during physical education, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, vol 52, issue 3-4, Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation Inc., Hindmarsh SA Australia, pp. 17-23.

Brown, T.D., 2004, Test-retest reliability of the self-assessed physical activity checklist, Perceptual and Motor Skills, vol 99, issue 3, Ammons Scientific Ltd, USA, pp. 1099-1102.

Conference Proceedings

Brown, T., Penney, D., 2011, Learning 'in', 'through' and 'about' movement in senior physical education? The new Victorian Certificate of Education physical education study design, Book of Abstracts of the AIESEP 2011 International Conference, 22 - 25 June, 2011, AIESEP, Limerick, Ireland, p. 19.

Brown, T., 2011, 'Yeah, it's a hard one isn't it' - Physical Education teachers understandings and conceptions of children's subjective movement experiences, Edited Proceedings of the 27th ACHPER International Conference, 18 - 20 April, 2011, Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER), SA, Australia, pp. 34-43.

Brown, T.D., Bennett, R.G., Ward, L.G., Payne, P.G., 2009, The context of movement and its social ecology, Proceedings of AARE 2009 International Education Research Conference, 29 November - 3 December 2009, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Australia, p. 0.

Brown, T.D., Payne, P.G., 2008, The concept of movement and its social ecology, Proceedings of the AARE 2008 International Education Research Conference, 30th November - 4th December, 2008, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Australia, pp. 1-22.

Brown, T.D., Payne, P.G., 2008, Theorising a phenomenology of movement for physical education pedagogy: A synthesis of key ideas, Proceedings of the British Educational Research Association Conference 2008, 3 - 6 September, 2008, BERA Conference Organisers, in Conference Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland, p. 76.

Brown, T.D., O'Connor, J., 2007, What members want: Voices about what cycling organizations provide for existing and potential members, Thinking on Two Wheels Cycling Conferences 2005-2007, 15 January 2007 to 16 January 2007, University of South Australia, Adelaide, pp. 1-15.

Brown, T.D., 2005, Physical education and the Victorian essential learning standards, Teacher Education: Local and Global. Australian Teacher Education Association 33rd Annual Conference Proceedings, 06/07/2005 to 09/07/2005, ATEA, Centre for Professional Development Griffith University NSW, pp. 93-99.

Other

O'Connor, J., Brown, T.D., 2006, Real cyclists don't race - informal affiliations of the 'weekend warrior', Abstract presented at 2nd Thinking on Two Wheels Cycling Conference, University of South Australia.

Brown, T.D., O'Connor, J., 2006, What members want - voices about what cycling organizations can provide for existing and potential members, Abstract of paper presented to 2nd Thinking on Two Wheels Cycling Conference, University of South Australia.

O'Connor, J., Brown, T.D., 2005, Opportunities and constraints: An investigation into competitive cycling within Victoria, Monash University, Victoria, pp. 1-27.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Reflective practice in coaching.

Supervisors:

Brown, T (Main), Wattchow, B (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Yeong, P.

Program of Study:

Fostering transformative learning: a phenomenological study into the lived experience of reflection and transformation in adventure education. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Wattchow, B (Main), Brown, T (Associate).