Dr. Alan Ovens
Education Faculty, Critical Studies in Education
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Qualifications
2005 Ph.D., Teacher Education, University of Queensland, Australia
1994 MED., Teacher Education, Deakin University, Australia
1981 Dip.PE., University of Otago, New Zealand
Publications (Selected)
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Han, J., Ovens, A., & Philpot, R. (2025). The nature of professional learning for secondary school health and physical education teachers: an ethnographic study. Sport, Education and Society, 1-16.
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Bennett, B., Philpot, R., & Ovens, A. (2025). Exploring heutagogy in a tertiary coach developer course. Sport, Education and Society, 1-16.
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Sanches Neto, L., Venâncio, L., Ovens, A., Dania, A., Ulasowicz, C., Garbett, D., ... & Conceição, W. L. D. (2024). Readdressing democracy and social justice: coping with inequalities in physical education. Curriculum perspectives, 44(4), 439-451.
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Hill, J., Walton-Fisette, J. L., Flemons, M., Philpot, R., Sutherland, S., Phillips, S., ... & Ovens, A. (2024). Social justice knowledge construction among physical education teacher educators: the value of personal, professional, and educational experiences. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 29(5), 439-451.
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Philpot, R., Smith, W., Pringle, R., Ovens, A., & Gerdin, G. (2024). Teaching for social justice through physical education. In Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice (pp. 219-235). Routledge.
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Sanches Neto, L., Venâncio, L., Corsino, L. N., Conceição, W. L. D., Vieira, E. L. D. S., Barreto, S. M., ... & Ovens, A. (2023, September). Perspectives on social justice when becoming a teacher-researcher in the practicum: insights from physical education teacher education. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 8, p. 1174751). Frontiers Media SA.
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Araújo, A. C. D., Ovens, A., & Knijnik, J. (2023). Developing digital competency in HPETE: a heuristic for and analysis of three programs in the Southern Hemisphere. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 14(2), 143-160.
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Sanches Neto, L., Costa, J., & Ovens, A. (2023). The complexity and criticality of long-term collaborative processes: self-study on one physical education teacher-researcher within a knowledge community. Movimento, 28, e28066.
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Brandenburg, R., Garbett, D., Ovens, A. P., & Thomas, L. (2023, January). Experienced teacher educators hunting assumptions to examine their pedagogy: An international collaborative study. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 7, p. 1036718). Frontiers Media SA.
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Ovens, A., & Lynch, S. (2022). Democratic teacher education practices. In Encyclopedia of teacher education (pp. 413-418). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
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Kucera, C., Gomes, A. L. D. V., Ovens, A., & Bennett, B. (2022). Google Sites como ferramenta de ensino de Educação Física a distância em tempos de covid-19: pedagogia, estratégias, reflexões e barreiras de um professor. Movimento, 28, e28019.
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Gambles, E. A., Griffin, L., Pill, S., Gutierrez, D., Ovens, A., & Koekoek, J. (2022). Celebrating 40 years of teaching games for understanding. Physical education matters, 17(1), 18-20.
Profile Details
WoS ResearcherID: ACH-2676-2022
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