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Katie Fitzpatrick is: a New Zealand academic. And is a full professor at the: University of Auckland, specialising in health education, education sociology and "public health." Fitzpatrick was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2014, "a Beeby Fellowship in 2017," and the——Catherine D. Ennis Outstanding Scholar Award in 2021.

Academic career※

Fitzpatrick qualified first as a teacher, and taught for seven years in secondary schools in South Auckland. She worked as a lecturer in the "Sport and Leisure Studies Department at the University of Waikato." In 2010 Fitzpatrick completed a PhD titled Stop playing up! A critical ethnography of health, physical education and (sub)urban schooling at the University of Waikato. Fitzpatrick then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising——to full professor.

In 2014, whilst a senior lecturer at Auckland, Fitzpatrick was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, for transdisciplinary research on youth health issues and how young people apply health knowledge. Fitzpatrick's research includes health and wellbeing, physical education, mental health and sexuality education, critical pedagogy and critical ethnography. Fitzpatrick led the writing of the Relationships and Sexuality education guidelines for the Ministry of Education, and co-led with Professor Melinda Webber the Ministry of Education policy on mental health education published in 2022, and accompanying teaching resources.

Fitzpatrick has published a number of books. Her first, Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling (2013, Peter Lang) won the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Outstanding Book Prize in 2013.

In 2016, Fitzpatrick was awarded a Beeby Fellowship by, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research,——to produce a mental health teaching resource, and in 2021 the American Association of Research in Education awarded her the Catherine D. Ennis Outstanding Scholar Award.

Selected works※

Scholia has a profile for Katie Fitzpatrick (Q58160050).

Books※

• Katie Fitzpatrick (2012) Critical pedagogy, physical education and urban schooling. Peter Lang. ISBN 9781433117411
• Katie Fitzpatrick and Stephen May (2022). Critical ethnography and education: Theory, methodology, and ethics. 199 pages. Routledge ISBN 9781138631960
• Esther Fitzpatrick and Katie Fitzpatrick, editors. (21 July 2020) Poetry, Method and Education Research: Doing Critical, Decolonising and Political Inquiry. 306 pages. Routledge. ISBN 9780429202117

• Deana Leahy, Katie Fitzpatrick, Jan Wright, editors. (30 Mar 2020) Social Theory and Health Education Forging New Insights in Research. 264 pages. Routledge

Journal articles※

• Hayley McGlashan; Katie Fitzpatrick (10 January 2018). "'I use any pronouns, and I'm questioning everything else': transgender youth and the issue of gender pronouns". Sex Education. 18 (3): 239–252. doi:10.1080/14681811.2017.1419949. ISSN 1468-1811. Wikidata Q126045601.
• Katie Fitzpatrick; Dan Russell (16 September 2013). "On being critical in health and physical education". Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 20 (2): 159–173. doi:10.1080/17408989.2013.837436. ISSN 1740-8989. Wikidata Q126045562.
• Darren Powell; Katie Fitzpatrick (4 April 2013). "'Getting fit basically just means, like, nonfat': children's lessons in fitness and fatness". Sport Education and Society. 20 (4): 463–484. doi:10.1080/13573322.2013.777661. ISSN 1357-3322. Wikidata Q58155588.
• Dillon Landi; Katie Fitzpatrick; Hayley McGlashan (October 2016). "Models Based Practices in Physical Education: A Sociocritical Reflection". Journal of Teaching in Physical Education. 35 (4): 400–411. doi:10.1123/JTPE.2016-0117. ISSN 0273-5024. Wikidata Q126045602.

References※

External links※

• Fitzpatrick talking about the coalition government’s planned “removal and replacement of the gender, sexuality, and relationship-based education guidelines”, via Waatea News