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Our MYSTERY guest recently (and successfully!) defended his dissertation - Moved to Move: Middle School Students’ Stories of Meaningful Physical Education. Our guest’s teaching experiences include stints in Hong Kong and South Korea - he currently is a secondary PE teacher in Alberta and has a surprising amount of podcast hosting experience… You can find him teaching undergraduates and continuing to research Meaningful PE on the campus of a Canadian Maritime University in the Fall of 2026!

We talk about meaningfulness in middle school PE through a longitudinal research study featuring the creation and use of student ‘vignettes’ (with a ‘live’ example). We also discuss growth and learning as a professional; the interaction and connections between teaching and research; reflective practices for students and teachers; enduring stereotypes and their effects; and curating meaningfulness in middle school.

Show Notes:

• Jo Bailey’s episode
• Jodi Harding-Kuriger’s episode
• Scott Kretchmar’s episode
• Ty’s dissertation can be searched for and found here (probably by August 2026).

Thanks to Isaiah (steelandbone1997@gmail.com) for the guitar pieces, SSHRC for some funding and our guests for sharing!

To contact us:

dgleddie@ualberta.ca

riddick@ualberta.ca