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Dr Rossi has a number of research interests: - Teacher identity and physical education teaching
- Coach identity and reflective practice
- Coaching knowledge, coaching styles and learning to coach
- Elite sports organizations as learning organizations
- Sport and physical activity in geographically remote contexts
- The uses and abuses of constructivist pedagogy in teaching and coaching sport
Background
Tony Rossi joined the School of Human Movement Studies in July 2005. He has a diverse background and range of scholarly interests. Previously he was in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland during the period 1992-2002 and again 2003-2005 where he taught, researched and wrote in the areas of physical education, physical education and sport in rural areas, constructivist learning in games, sociology and cultural studies with a particular interest in identity. As a consequence his scholarly writing is equally diverse. Dr Rossi spent a year (2002-2003) teaching and researching at the National Institute of Education, part of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. More recently he has worked closely with Dr Cliff Mallet and Professor Richard Tinning on coaching knowledge and workplace learning in the coaching environment and this research is currently funded by the Australian Football League. In addition he is part of an ARC project within the School looking at the identity of physical education teachers and curriculum reform.
Prior to working in universities Dr Rossi taught physical education in schools across the UK and in his last position as a Head of Department led the implementation of the Physical Education National Curriculum. His first job in Australia was at the Spastic Centre of New South Wales in Sydney as a workplace trainer, he regards this experience as having had a profound impact on his role as an educator.
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