Associate Professor (EdD), Department of Educational Studies
Available for Graduate Advisement
St. Catharines, ON
905 688 5550 x3639
jbarrett@brocku.ca
Joe Barrett, EdD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education. His research and service duties are oriented around school health policy and health and physical education pedagogy. Dr. Barrett teaches a number of elementary and secondary B.Ed. courses focused upon physical and health education curriculum and instruction as well as graduate M.Ed. courses focused upon physical and health education policy and curricula. He has served as the Ontario representative on the Physical and Health Education (PHE) Canada Board of Directors (2013-2015) and as co-chair (2010-2012) and chair (2012-2013) of the PHE Canada Research Council. He recently completed a two-year term as the co-chair (2017-2019) of the PHE Canada National Research Forum.
- School health policy
- Health and physical education pedagogy
- Culturally responsive pedagogy
- Sport coaching pedagogy
- Problem-based learning
- Physical and Health Education Canada Research Council
- Canadian Society for the Study of Education
- International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education
- Coaching Association of Canada
- Ontario College of Teachers
Barrett, J. M., Cherubini, L., & Robinson, D. B. (2018). Enhancing understandings of emerging physical education practical theory: Aboriginal prospective teachers’ reflective journaling practices. McGill Journal of Education, 53(1), 11-25.
Barrett, J.M., & Scaini, C. (Eds.). (2018). Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated approaches for elementary teachers. Champaign, IL, United States: Human Kinetics.
Barrett, J.M., Robinson, D.B. (2018). An approach to long range planning practices for elementary health and physical educators. In Barrett, J.M., & Scaini, C. (Eds.). Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated approaches for elementary teachers. Champaign, IL, United States: Human Kinetics.
Barrett, J.M., Lu, C., & Janzen, J. (2018). Considering the role of health education within the context of K-12 public education in Canada. In Barrett, J.M., & Scaini, C. (Eds.). Physical and Health Education in Canada: Integrated approaches for elementary teachers. Champaign, IL, United States: Human Kinetics.
Robinson, D. B., Randall, L., & Barrett, J. M. (2018). Physical literacy (mis)understandings: What do physical education teacher leaders know about physical literacy? Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 37(3), 288-298.
Robinson, D. B., Randall, L., & Barrett, J.M. (2018). University supervision in physical education teacher education (PETE): Observations and critical reflections from physical education teacher educators. In D. Young, W. Kraglund-Gauthier, & T. Ryan (Eds.), Readiness for the field: Perspectives from within the triangle of teacher education (pp. 149-166). Champaign, IL: Common Ground.
Robinson, D.B., & Barrett, J.M. (2017). Why play outside? Problematising outdoor play as a biopedagogical task. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 8 (1), 39-52.
Brown, H., & Barrett, J. M. (2016). Duoethnography as a pedagogical tool that encourages deep reflection. In J. Norris, R. D. Sawyer (Eds.), Theorizing Curriculum Studies, Teacher Education and Research through Duoethnographic Pedagogy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Barrett, J.M. (2015). School-based physical activity: Planning with student motivation in mind. Teaching and Learning, 10, 1-20.
Enhanced Teacher Education Program (Two-Year)
- EDBE 8P46 – Health and Physical Education Curriculum and Pedagogy (Primary/Junior)
- EDBE 8P56 – Health and Physical Education Curriculum and Pedagogy (Junior/Intermediate)
- EDBE 8F84 – Teaching Health and Physical Education (Intermediate/Senior Part I)
- EDBE 8P93 – Teaching Health and Physical Education (Intermediate/Senior Part II)
Graduate Studies in Education
- EDUC 5P57 – Physical Education in the Curriculum
- EDUC 5P96 – Educational Internship
- EDUC 5P98 – Independent Study in Education
