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Teaching commitmentBiographyTrent is currently a Lecturer with teaching responsibilities in fitness, wellness and physical education and sport pedagogy. He has worked at Monash University for the past 5 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.
At the beginning of his Monash career Trent acted as a co-investigator on a research project with senior investigator Dr Justen OConnor titled an investigation into competitive cycling within Victoria. More recently Trent along with other principal investigators, Dr Justen O'Connor and Associate Professor Phillip Payne was awarded a Monash small grant to investigate teachers' understandings of the Active School concept in primary schools in the Peninsula region.
Research InterestsTrents research interests lie primarily in physical education and sport pedagogy, although he has also conducted research outside of these settings. Importantly as a member of the Movement, Environment and Community Research node his research is underpinned by complex socio-ecological and experiential education theories and more recently has examined the importance of individuals lived experience, meaning and meaning-making of, through and about movement.
He is also interested in examining the complex educational and philosophical justification(s) of physical education, as well as different approaches to the teaching of school physical education eg sport education, teaching games for understanding, Mosstons teaching styles, conceptual physical education, action competence. As a result of his diverse research interests, Trent primarily uses mixed-method approaches in his research approach, and is comfortable working with quantitative or qualitative/phenomenological/hermeneutical data.
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.
Professional Associations
- Australian Council for Health and Physical Education (ACHPER)- Trent has recently been re-elected as a Board member (2 years) of the Victorian branch of the Australian Council for Health Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER), the professional association which oversees specialist physical education teachers and teaching.
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)
- British Educational Research Association (BERA)
PublicationsBrown, T.D. (2008) Movement and Meaning-making in physical education, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 55 (2): 5-9
Brown, T.D. & O'Connor, J. (in review) The Development and Initial Validation of the Sporting Cyclists Barriers Scale (SCBS), submitted to Health Promotion Journal of Australia.
Brown, T.D., O'Connor, J. & Barkatsos, A. N. (in preparation) Instrumentation and Motivations for Organised Cycling: the Development of the Cyclist Motivation Instrument (CMI)
O'Connor, J. & Brown, T.D., (in press) Riding with the sharks: Serious leisure cyclist's perceptions of sharing the road with motorists, Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
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, Palagrave MacMillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, pp. 282-296.
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, 42 (1): 83-97
Brown, T.D. & Holland, B.V. (2005) Student physical activity and lesson context, ACHPER Healthy Lifestyles Journal, 52 (3-4): 17-23.
Brown, T.D. & Holland, B.V. (2004) Test-retest reliability of the self-assessed physical activity checklist. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 99(3): 1099-1012
Conference Presentations
Brown, T.D. & Payne, P.G. (2008, September) Theorising a phenomenology of movement for physical education pedagogy: a synthesis of key ideas. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the British Education Research Association, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Brown, T.D. & Payne, P.G. (2008, December) The concept of movement and its social ecology, Paper presented as part of the social ecology of movement, environment and community (MEC) symposium at the Australian Association of Research in Education annual conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Brown, T.D. & O'Connor, J.P. (2006, January) What members want: Voices about what cycling organizations can provide for existing and potential members. Paper presented at the 2006 Thinking on Two Wheels Conference, Adelaide, S.A.
O'Connor J.P. & Brown, T.D.(2006, January) Real cyclists don't race: Informal affiliations of the weekend warrior. Paper presented at the 2006 Thinking on Two Wheels Conference, Adelaide, S.A.
Brown, T.D.(2005) Physical Education and the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. Paper presented at the Australian Teacher Education Conference, Gold Coast, QLD.
Walkley, J.W., Brown, , T.D., Perry, T., Cowan, D., Anderson, B., Brennan, L., Reece, J., Hawley, J.A. (2004 submitted) Influence of eating a proprietary breakfast and snack combined with weekly physical training on measures of cardiovascular function, exercise confidence and well being on adolescent boys. To be presented at the ACHPER National Conference, Wollongong, New South Wales.
Brown, T.D., Holland B.V., Brown L.E. (2002) The Physical Activity Levels of Children in Physical Education. Presented at the ACHPER National Conference, Launceston, Tasmania.
Brown, T.D., Holland B.V., Brown L.E., Woodcock A, Crouch G (2002) An Investigation of student activity and lesson context in physical education. Presented at the ACHPER National Conference, Launceston, Tasmania.
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