Rachael Jefferson, PFHEA

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  • Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning) team, Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Human Movement Studies (Health and PE) and Creative Arts, Charles Sturt University

I am in the Associate Head of School (Teaching & Learning) team and a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Human Movement Studies (Health and PE) and Creative Arts within Charles Sturt University's School of Education on the Albury-Wodonga campus (NSW, Australia). I hold a BEd (Hons) in physical education, dance, and special educational needs, and an MA in dance studies. I gained a PhD at Charles Sturt University in 2019; my thesis was entitled: ‘A genealogy of the governance of the body in physical education in England from 1902 to 2016’. I also have a postgraduate certificate in Applied Social Research, a diploma in Research on Yoga in Education (RYE UK), a Level I certificate in mindfulness (MTIA), and I am a fully trained Mental Health First Aider (2024).

I have more than thirty-five years of experience in education, which has involved designing, teaching and leading physical education and arts activities in the UK, Switzerland, and Australia. During this period, I have fought tirelessly for inclusion, particularly in terms of gender and ethnicity. In 2020 I worked as the senior international expert on a UNICEF-Montrose project in Myanmar, creating modules and teacher training materials for the 'Playing Sports Together' project. This programme supported all students, from diverse communities, studying in schools in Rakhine State, with the overarching goal of contributing to inclusion and a sense of togetherness, through educational activities.

In addition, I am a senior international physical education/arts consultant for Cambridge Partnership for Education, working with governments to redesign curriculum at a national level in Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, and Egypt.

My research interests include the body, physical education, sport, PE/sport pedagogy and policy, health and wellbeing, inclusion (gender, ethnicity), sociology, genealogy (body governance), fundamental movement skills, dance, mindfulness, and yoga.

Experience

  • –present
    Lecturer in human movement studies (health and PE), Creative Arts, Charles Sturt University

Education

  • 2019 
    Charles Sturt University, PhD
  • 2010 
    The University of the West of England, PG Cert in Applied Social Research (merit)
  • 1997 
    University of Surrey, Master of Arts in Dance Studies
  • 1988 
    Chelsea School of Human Movement, Brighton Polytechnic, BEd (Hons) in Specialist Physical Education & Special Educational Needs

Publications

  • 2023
    How the gendered body is constructed in the neoliberal schooling context through discipline and healthism in contemporary physical education, Gender, feminist and queer studies: Power, privilege and inequality in a time of neoliberal conservatism
  • 2022
    Teaching fundamental movement skills through play-based pedagogy, Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
  • 2018
    Physical Education across the international media: A five-year analysis, Sport, Education and Society
  • 2016
    Traces of discourses and governmentality within the content and implementation of the Western Australian Fundamental Movement Skills programme (STEPS Professional Development), Education 3-13
  • 2015
    A case study: Review of an Indigenous digital resource as a potential medium for dance undergraduate teaching and learning: Cassie’s Story: Dyan Ngal (Wiradjuri for ‘fix me’), The Journal of Teaching, Research, and Media in Kinesiology
  • 2012
    Dance: teaching and learning possibilities within the early years and primary school context, An introduction to primary physical education
  • 2011
    The fundamental movement skills programme (Steps PD). Physical development challenges and opportunities in the primary school context, Bridging the transition from primary to secondary school
  • 2009
    Fundamental fun. 132 activities to develop fundamental movement skills, STEPS PD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    Embodied wellbeing
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    WellBe

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)

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