Physical Education category: 327 books
Fitness Education for Children
A Team Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
In the latest edition of his book Fitness Education for Children: A Team Approach, Stephen Virgilio emphasizes the importance of collaboration to combat obesity and promote active lifestyles. Virgilio shows how you can combine the efforts of physical educators, administrators, classroom teachers,...
Digital Technologies and Learning in Physical Education
Pedagogical cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
There is evidence of considerable growth in the availability and use of digital technologies in physical education. Yet, we have scant knowledge about how technologies are being used by teachers, and whether or how these technologies are optimising student learning. This book makes a novel contribution...
Workplace Learning in Physical Education
Emerging Teachers’ Stories from the Staffroom and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from...
Creative Approaches to Physical Education
Helping Children to Achieve their True Potential
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Creative Approaches to Physical Education provides guidance on how to develop innovative new approaches to the delivery of each area of the National Curriculum for PE at Key Stages 2 and 3.
The ideas have all been successfully developed in schools where every child has been encouraged to find...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Primary Physical Education goes further than any other book in exploring the specific theoretical and practical components of teaching PE at the primary or elementary school level. As the most comprehensive review of theory, research and practice in primary PE yet published,...
Physical Literacy on the Move
Games for Developing Confidence and Competence in Physical Activity
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Authors have addressed physical literacy in books before—but these books have never comprehensively tied theory to practice. Author Heather Gardner has found a way to help K-12 physical and health education teachers bridge this gap in Physical Literacy on the Move.
The result? Students not...
The Story of White Hall Centre
Outdoor Education across the Decades
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
White Hall Centre for Open Country Pursuits, near Buxton in Derbyshire, was set up in 1950 by Jack Longland, Derbyshire’s director of education. The Story of White Hall Centre describes White Hall’s origins and its sixty-seven years in existence.
Written references to the setting-up of...
Youth Sport, Physical Activity and Play
Policy, Intervention and Participation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Sport, physical activity and play are key constituents of social life, impacting such diverse fields as healthcare, education and criminal justice. Over the past decade, governments around the world have begun to place physical activity at the heart of social policy, providing increased opportunities...
Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education
Fear, Risk and Moral Panic
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In our increasingly risk-averse society, touch and touching behaviours between professionals and children have become a fraught issue. In sports coaching and physical education, touching young sports performers and participants has, in some contexts, come to be redefined as dubious and dangerous....
Physical Education 5-11
A guide for teachers
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Physical Education 5-11 is about lighting or relighting a fire in all those who have the privilege and the responsibility of teaching children physical education in Primary schools today. It is written at a time of great change: a revised Primary curriculum; an increased drive to raise achievement...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines public policy in physical education and sport and provides insights into practices of school curriculum and after-school sport programs from a global context. The authors reflect on the continuously shifting understanding of the field of physical education, articulate issues that...
by John Severs
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Physical education and sport in schools is undergoing renewed emphasis and the primary sector key stages are rightly seen as fundamental elements in the new initiatives.
The majority of primary school teachers are non-specialists and there is, therefore, a particular need for information on...
Gender and Physical Education
Contemporary Issues and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Gender and Physical Education offers a critical and comprehensive commentary on issues relating to gender in PE and teacher education. The book challenges our understandings of gender, equity and identity in PE, establishing a conceptual and historical foundation for the issue, as well as presenting...
Physical Activity and Educational Achievement
Insights from Exercise Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
A growing body of research evidence suggests that physical activity can have a positive effect on educational achievement. This book examines a range of processes associated with physical activity that are of relevance to those working in education – including cognition, learning, memory, attention,...