Professor David Kirk

Education

Personal statement

I am currently Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education (2014-17) at the University of Strathclyde. I am an educational researcher with teaching and research interests in educational innovation, curriculum history, and physical education and sport pedagogy. I am founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Routledge) and editor of Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport. I have held academic appointments previously in universities in England, Australia, Ireland and Belgium and am currently Honorary Professor of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland. My most recent book Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education was published by Routledge in 2020. My most recent co-authored book with Dr Kimberly Oliver, Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Perspective, was published by Routledge in August 2015. A book co-edited with Professor Patricia Vertinsky (University of British Columbia) Female Traditions in Physical Education: 'Women First' Revisted was published by Routledge in 2016.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

    • Curriculum historian
    • Qualitative researcher
    • Curriculum designer
    • School-based intervention designer
    • Physical education teacher educator

Prizes and awards

Best Paper Award by the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group in Research on Instruction and Learning in Physical Education 2017
Recipient
27/4/2017
Fritz Duras Memorial Lecture
Recipient
22/11/2013
International Fellow
Recipient
1/9/2012
Fellow
Recipient
1/7/2010
Fellow
Recipient
1/7/2005

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Publications

A systematic review of teaching games for understanding intervention studies from a practice-referenced perspective
Morales-Belando María T, Kirk David, Arias-Estero José L
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Vol 93, pp. 670-681 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2021.1897066
Exploring pupils' and physical education teachers' views on the contribution of physical education to health and wellbeing in the affective domain
Teraoka Eishin, Kirk David
Sport, Education and Society Vol 27, pp. 935-945 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.1940917
'Fighting like a girl' : qualitative analysis of the gendered movement learning in the Spanish Olympic karate team
Turelli Fabiana Cristina, Vaz Alexandre Fernandez, Tejero-González Carlos María, Kirk David
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy , pp. 1-18 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2022.2125947
Coaches' perceptions of sport education : a response to precarity through a pedagogy of affect
García López Luis Miguel, Kirk David
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Vol 27, pp. 353-367 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2021.1891211
Empowering children from socially vulnerable backgrounds through the use of roles in sport education
García López Luis M, Kirk David
Sport, Education and Society Vol 27, pp. 676-688 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.1897563
Challenges with using formative and authentic assessment in physical education teaching from experienced teachers' perspectives
Barrientos Hernán Emilio J, López-Pastor Victor M, Lorente-Catalán Eloísa, Kirk David
Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education , pp. 1-18 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1080/25742981.2022.2060118

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Teaching

  • Physical education and sport pedagogy
  • Curriculum change, including curriculum history
  • Curriculum design

Research interests

Professor Kirk has research interests in curriculum innovation and change, curriculum history, and physical education and sport pedagogy.

Current and Recent Projects

Research project: AHRC funded Early Career project Understanding the Gendered Roots of Sport:A study of female fandom and physical activity, 1945-2000, mentor and Co-I to Dr Stacey Pope, University of Durham, 2016-2019.

Book published August 2015 (co-author Professor Kimberly Oliver, New Mexico State University), Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Perspective, Routledge, publication June 2015. Associated research pilot project now completed, Adolescent girls valuing the physically active life: An Activist Approach, August 2015-June 2016. Papers presented from this project to the BERA Conference (September 2016), the SERA conference (November 2016), the AERA Annual Meeting (April 2017), and the European Conference of Curriculum Studies (June 2017) and are available by emailing david.kirk@strath.ac.uk .

Research Project (collaborator with Professor Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia) Reconsidering the demise of the female tradition in physical education: its legacies and impact upon current practices in physical education for girls, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada funded, 2014-2018. Associated edited book published by Routledge in 2016, The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First Reconsidered, co-edited by Kirk and Vertinsky.

Research Project (co-Investigator with Professor Doune Macdonald et al., University of Queensland), External provision of the school curriculum: Local needs to global networks in Health and Physical Education, Australian Research Council funded, 2014-2017. Kirk will chair and contribute a paper to a research Symposium 'Outsourcing and the commodification of HPE: Turning the process inside-out' at the AIESEP Congress Guadeloupe November 2017. A special issue of the journal Discourse will report findings from this project in 2020.

 

Professional activities

Promouvoir une éducation physique de qualité en intégrant la théorie de l'activité: inviter l'élève à devenir agent de son apprentissage au 21 ème siècle
Contributor
25/2/2020
L’utilisation des méthodes mixtes dans un paradigme socio-constructiviste de recherche en éducation physique et pédagogie du sport
Speaker
25/2/2020
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Journal)
Editor
1/7/2004

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Projects

Literacies for Health and Life Skills
Kirk, David (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
Literacies for Health and Life Skills
Kirk, David (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
Female Sports Fandom in the North East: A Historical study of Female Fandom & the Critical Intersections Between Sports Spectatorship and Participation (Mentor for Stacey Pope)
Kirk, David (Principal Investigator)
Female Sports Fandom in the North East: A Historical study of Female Fandom & the Critical Intersections Between Sports Spectatorship and Participation (Mentor for Stacey Pope)
31-Jan-2016 - 28-Jan-2021
Collaboration Agreement with University of York
Kirk, David (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2020
Autism Network Scotland - Scottish Strategy for Scotland administration of National Governance Group, consultation forum and sub group activity and coordination activity
Christie, Donald (Co-investigator) Hanley, Emma Mairi (Co-investigator) Kirk, David (Co-investigator)
15-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2021

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