Using Sporting Themes to Engage Male Students

Currie, JL

Using Sporting Themes to Engage Male Students

Currie, JL

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Publisher:: National Rugby League (NRL)
Citation:: 2011
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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	Dream. Believe. Achieve..mp4	Published version	15.96 MB	MP4	View/Open
	Dream Believe Achieve.pdf		403.08 kB	Adobe PDF	View/Open

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Currie, JL https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0424-2966	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2011	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/121709
dc.description.abstract	Set of Sporting themed materials including The 'Dream, Believe, Achieve' schools DVD features NRL players delivering motivating health messages for young people, goal-setting advice and how to strive to achieve your dreams.	en_US
dc.format	Creative work AV recording	en_US
dc.publisher	National Rugby League (NRL)	en_US
dc.title	Using Sporting Themes to Engage Male Students	en_US
utslib.location	Sydney	en_US
utslib.for	1301 Education Systems	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of International Studies
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.consider-herdc	false	en_US
pubs.place-of-publication	Sydney	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	ERA “Research Statement” Dream, Believe, Achieve (DBA) is a set of sporting-themed curriculum materials designed in collaboration with the National Rugby League (NRL), supporting secondary health lessons encouraging students to consider behaviours and attitudes towards leading a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Research background The research is 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy. Researchers have shown that relating classroom teaching to out-of-school activities (Pirbhai & Illich, 2010) and active classroom learning strategies (Clark, 2012) increase engagement by male students. Taylor and Lorimer (2003) suggested that the use of sporting themes might also increase engagement. This project aimed to test whether this was the case. Research contribution The project demonstrated that the use of sporting themes – in this case, predominantly from Rugby League – does in fact lead to greater engagement by, particularly male, students, as hypothesized by Taylor and Lorimer (2003). Videos of well-known NRL players and the use of the game’s terminology provided triggers for learning activities such as games. Teacher survey feedback confirmed that this led to higher student engagement, including among students from lower SES backgrounds. Research significance Over 3000 kits were requested in the first 4 months. The UTS Australian Centre for Child & Youth (ACCY) was originally awarded $10,000 by the NRL in 2011 for the creation of the DBA kit, and a further $4,000 for the process evaluation study, 2014. The NRL developed a new online, colour version of DBA in 2015. It is now also being used for education programs for men in prison.	en_US

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Set of Sporting themed materials including The 'Dream, Believe, Achieve' schools DVD features NRL players delivering motivating health messages for young people, goal-setting advice and how to strive to achieve your dreams.

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