Australia's Leading Resource for Physical,Outdoor and Health Education Professionals
Active Education Magazine (AEM) is Australia’s leading resource for physical, outdoor and health education professionals. This is the official Active Education magazine website and it features a selection of articles from the current and previous issues of the print magazine, along with some ‘web-only’ content. We trust that you will find this site a useful resource as well […]
By Dr. Peter Martin. In August 1856, Johann Fuhlrott, a school teacher and keen naturalist from Germany’s Neander valley, received a few old bones from a local quarryman. There is no record of what his students thought of these relics, but Fuhlrott recognised that they were human-like yet different from anything he had seen previously. […]
Territory Discoveries, Australia’s leading group travel advisor for education, took 12 teachers to the Northern Territory to showcase the magic that makes the NT such a special and invaluable education experience. Hear their thoughts about the value to traveling to the NT with school groups.
By Richard Tinning. Throughout the landscape of educational discourse there is frequent use of the strange word pedagogy –English pedagogy, pedagogies of inclusion, productive pedagogies and even physical education pedagogy. The purpose of this article is to explain the term pedagogy, how it is used in PE (physical education) and how the idea of pedagogical […]
By Andres Olascoaga. Physical education teachers need to inspire their students to be healthy and active while at the same time overcoming the technology barriers that are affecting day-by-day teaching. The increased use of social media and internet services affects how students communicate with each other in games and sport because they have become reliant […]
By Craig Haslam. The Eyre Peninsula is predominantly known for its pristine coastal wildernesses, maritime history and abundant land and marine national parks. With sea side villages, seal colonies, whale emigration routes, fisheries, surf breaks, the Gawler Ranges’ big skies and wide open spaces, there is plenty for students to see, do, explore and learn […]
By Liz Horne. The first real adventure away from home, be it to visit family who live a long way away, a school camp, or a slumber party at a friend’s house, stirs some level of anticipation, whether excitement, freedom, wonder; or dread, nervousness, anxiety. Regardless of the generation, there will always be the human […]
By Rich Hungerford. Have you ever paused to wonder why a camping trip or a bush walk, despite the sense of ‘roughing it’, usually results in a sense of revitalisation that allows you to face work and life once again with renewed vigour? One theory is that putting a human being back into the ‘green […]
