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Department and Program	Name and position	Expertise Recent Work
Secondary Education	Nancy Melnychuk Associate Professor	Physical Education Teacher Education. Programs. Teaching Identity formation. Partnerships with teachers and schools. Teacher-as-Researcher.
Elementary Education	Stephan Berg Doctorial Graduate Student
Elementary Education	Graham Fishburne Professor	Pedagogy. Teacher Education. Growth and Development. Bone development. Imagery. Teacher Effectiveness.

Department and Program	Name and position	Expertise Recent Work
Sport Psychology	Nicholas Holt Assistant Professor	Youth sport and physical Activity. Talent development and positive psychology. Children's and parents' experiences in youth sport. Stress, coping, and social support. Applied sport psychology. Qualitative research methods
Leadership and Instruction	Jane Vallentyne - Associate Professor	Leadership and instruction. Advocate and professor in the area of children's physical activity (in and out of school). Interested in the role of informal play in human development. Manages the Play Around the World Program taking learning communities of U of A students to work with underserved population of children. (Presently the program operates in and around the Pattaya Orphanage in Thailand)
BPE & Joint BPE/BED degrees	Marnie Rutledge - Lecturer
	Cathy Van Ing

University of Lethbridge

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Faculty of Education

David Chorney
Assistant Professor

-Curriculum theory and development in physical education
-Teacher preparation in physical education
-Pedagogy and effective teaching
-Culture and ethnicity in the physical education classroom
-Gender issues in physical education
-Qualitative research methodologies