Questioning Purpose in Physical Education (Pt2) - Greg Dryer - Meaningful Sport Series

Physical Activity Researcher

In this second part of our conversation with Greg Dryer, we continue questioning the purpose of physical education. Is PE about health, life skills, lifelong participation and/or other goals that we might find worth pursuing? Why are we so quick to start pointing out the instrumental benefits of physical activity, education and sports?

Greg Dryer is visiting the podcast for the second time. When we did our first podcast session in the autumn 2020, Greg was still the Director of the Centre for Physical Education, Sport and Activity at Kingston University. After our previous conversation, Greg has chosen to fully focus on working on the miMove app he co-founded in 2019. In the podcast, we catch up on what changed in Greg's work and how his thinking around meaningful PE has informed his work on the app.

The main contents of the conversation then include:

- Instrumental and intrinsic values of PE - how do we strike a balance?

- Ofsted review in English schools: key messages and what was missing

- centralising meaningful and affective movement experiences; how to do that?

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You can follow Greg and his work on miMove on Twitter @Greg_Dryer and @miMoveApp

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Liked this episode? Other episodes addressing the various purposes of physical education include the conversations with Prof. R. Scott Kretchmar and Prof. Øyvind Standal.