Associate Professor Wayne Smith

PhD, MEd, DipPE, DipTchg

Deputy Dean

In: Curriculum and Pedagogy » Faculty of Education and Social Work

Biography

Wayne Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education. Wayne has been involved in teacher education for two decades and from 2002-09 was Head of Programme of the Faculty’s Bachelor of Physical Education. His research and teaching interests are in socially-critical pedagogy in physical education.

Other Positions held:

2002 -2009 Head of Programme of Bachelor of Physical Education
2003- 2010 External Monitor of Bethlehem Tertiary Institute’s Postgraduate Diploma of Teacher Education

Research | Current

The nature of the field of Physical Education
Physical Education teacher education
Skill acquisition and pedagogy involving social theories, in particular Bourdieuian theorizing, situated and complexity learning theories
Publications and presentations

Teaching | Current

EDCURRIC 133 Concepts Underpinning Skilled Movement
EDCURRIC 231 Physical Education Practice 3
EDCURRIC 236 Teaching Outdoor Education
Doctoral supervision

Postgraduate supervision

Current:

Stuart Deerness - PhD - A Challenge to Tradition: What can be achieved by better understanding teacher-habitus and teaching across-habitus?
Rod Philpot - PhD - An examination of students’ beliefs and understanding of physical education throughout a four year physical education teacher education (PETE) programme

Past:

Stuart Deerness - MEd - A little more than Kin: A Personal Reflection on Teaching Practice
Rod Philpot - MEd - A comparison of the beliefs about, and understanding of physical education of entering and graduating PETE students

Areas of expertise

Physical education curriculum and pedagogy
Physical education teacher education
Skill acquisition

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

McIntyre, J., Philpot, R., & SMITH, W. W. (2016). HPE teachers' understanding of socially critical pedagogy and the New Zealand Health and Physical Education curriculum. New Zealand Physical Educator, 49 (2), 5-9. Related URL.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/31626
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Rod Philpot
Gerdin, G., Philpot, R., & Smith, W. (2016). It is only an intervention, but it can sow very fertile seeds: graduate physical education teachers’ interpretations of critical pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 1-13. 10.1080/13573322.2016.1174846
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Rod Philpot
Smith, W. (2016). Fundamental movement skills and fundamental games skills are complementary pairs and should be taught in complementary ways at all stages of skill development. Sport, Education and Society, 21 (3), 431-442. 10.1080/13573322.2014.927757
lisahunter, emerald, E., & Smith, W. (2015). Continuing to work with, against, and beyond Bourdieu. In lisahunter, W. Smith, E. emerald (Eds.) Pierre Bourdieu and physical culture. London: Routledge.
Smith, W. (2015). Games education: A philosophy of teaching games in school HPE. ACHPER Active & Healthy Magazine, 22 (1), 24-30. Related URL.
Smith, W. (2015). Bourdieu, physical culture and universities. In lisahunter, W. Smith, E. emerald (Eds.) Pierre Bourdieu and physical culture. London: Routledge.
lisahunter, Smith, W., & emerald, E. (2015). Pierre Bourdieu and his conceptual tools. In lisahunter, W. Smith, E. emerald (Eds.) Pierre Bourdieu and physical culture. London: Routledge.
lisahunter, Smith, W., & emerald, E. (Eds.) (2015). Pierre Bourdieu and physical culture. London: Routledge. Pages: 200.