139 research outputs found
Tales from the playing field: black and minority ethnic students' experiences of physical education teacher education
This article presents findings from recent research exploring black and minority ethnic (BME) students’ experiences of Physical Education teacher education (PETE) in England (Flintoff, 2008). Despite policy initiatives to increase the ethnic diversity of teacher education cohorts, BME students are under-represented in PETE, making up just 2.94% of the 2007/8 national cohort, the year in which this research was conducted. Drawing on in-depth interviews and questionnaires with 25 BME students in PETE, the study sought to contribute to our limited knowledge and understanding of racial and ethnic difference in PE, and to show how ‘race,’ ethnicity and gender are interwoven in individuals’ embodied, everyday experiences of learning how to teach. In the article, two narratives in the form of fictional stories are used to present the findings. I suggest that narratives can be useful for engaging with the experiences of those previously silenced or ignored within Physical Education (PE); they are also designed to provoke an emotional as well as an intellectual response in the reader. Given that teacher education is a place where we should be engaging students, emotionally and politically, to think deeply about teaching, education and social justice and their place within these, I suggest that such stories of difference might have a useful place within a critical PETE pedagogy
Strategies for choosing path-entangled number states for optimal robust quantum optical metrology in the presence of loss
To acquire the best path-entangled photon Fock states for robust quantum
optical metrology with parity detection, we calculate phase information from a
lossy interferometer by using twin entangled Fock states. We show that (a) when
loss is less than 50% twin entangled Fock states with large photon number
difference give higher visibility while when loss is higher than 50% the ones
with less photon number difference give higher visibility; (b) twin entangled
Fock states with large photon number difference give sub-shot-noise limit
sensitivity for phase detection in a lossy environment. This result provides a
reference on what particular path-entangled Fock states are useful for real
world metrology applications
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