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| Title: | Child protection training in sport-related degrees |
| Authors: | Rossato, C Brackenridge, C H |
| Date of Issue: | 2008 |
| Volume/Chapter no.: | tbc; |
| Abstract: | This article reports on the results of an online survey of child protection training for students on sport-related degrees and Initial Teacher Training Physical Education courses, and on the views of recently-graduated teachers of the usefulness of such training in their everyday work. The results indicate that child protection training is provided on most courses but in varying amounts. Respondents to the survey reported positively, in the main, about the effects of new requirements for teacher training (Every Child Matters: Change for Children, DfES, 2004). Reasons given for not including child protection in courses were: lack of time; the perceived vocational nature of the topic; lack of fit with course aims and objectives; lack of relevance; and, the research rather than professional orientation of the course. Recently graduated teachers’ views on their pre-service child protection training differed from the claims made about this in the survey. In particular, they raised conc... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2438/2623 |
| ISSN: | 0952-9136 Child Abuse Review |
| Item Type: | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | Sport Sciences School of Sport and Education Research Papers |
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