| 2005 Scholar Lecturer, Inez Rovegno, is a Professor at the University of Alabama. She teaches undergraduate courses in elementary physical education curriculum and instructional methods, gymnastics, and dance and graduate courses on curriculum and research on teacher education. Rovegno has published research and elementary physical education curricular work in a range of journals. She was a recipient of the Exemplary Research Award and the Senior Scholar Award from the AERA Special Interest Group on Research on Learning and Instruction in Physical Education and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of North Carolina At Greensboro, School of Health and Human Performance. Rovegno also presented the 23rd Distinguished Peter V. Karpovich Lecture at Springfield College and, recently, the keynote address at the meeting of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation National Biennial Conference. Her focus has been on teachers' and preservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge and how that knowledge develops, constructivist and situated approaches, creative dance, child-designed games, and basic game tactics.
During her lecture Rovegno will discuss how researchers have used constructivist and situated theories of learning as frameworks for research on curriculum and instruction in physical education. She will focus on the findings from her school-based research on teaching games skills and tactics to upper-elementary age children and how constructivist and situated theories can inform teaching, content, sequencing, and the design of tasks in school settings. |