429: Ash Casey, Shifting the Culture in PE with Models Based Practice

Most research on pedagogical models follows a familiar script. A university researcher designs an intervention, recruits a school, and checks how faithfully teachers deliver it. On a recent episode of Playing with Research, Dr. Ash Casey of Loughborough University talked through a paper that flips that script. “Shifting the Culture of Physical Education: Teachers and Students’ Experiences of Models-Based Practice” is open access in Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. It documents what happened when an English secondary PE department decided to rebuild its curriculum around models-based practice (MBP) on its own terms. The Paper Casey, A. (2026). Shifting the culture of physical education: teachers' and students' experiences of Models-based Practice. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2026.2700715