Personal, social and moral development through physical education and sport is a relatively under-researched area. Most teaching concentrates on the performance aspect of physical education, while the National Curriculum requires teachers to address a number of 'non-physical' outcomes such as learning rules, teamwork, cooperation and competition. This timely book redresses that balance by providing classroom practitioners and student teachers with practical advice, and tried-and-tested suggestions for activities and strategies to help them use physical education as an effective vehicle for the all-round personal development of the individual. Tony Laker pays particular attention to: * curriculum development, planning units of work and lesson planning* considering different types of assessment, and suggestions on which forms are most appropriate for measuring programme effectiveness and the personal development of pupils* the role of the reflective practitioner and a framework within which teachers can reflect on their practice. Through using an extensive range of diagrams, photos and bulleted lists, Laker makes this guide a concise and accessible read, giving practitioners the opportunity to extend and develop their abilities in teaching this subject.

Product Description: In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and well-being as a result...read more

Product Description: In the early twentieth century, university administrators and educators regarded bodily health as a marker of an individual’s moral and mental strength and as a measure of national vitality. Beset by social anxieties about the physical and moral health of their students, they introduced compulsory health services and physical education programs in order to shape their students’ character...read more

Product Description: Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make decisions that are both unexpected – and therefore less easily predicted by his/her opponent – and appropriate is the player who is likely to be successful...read more

Product Description: Sociocultural Issues in Physical Education: Case Studies for Teachers is useful to a wide range of individuals interested in increasing their sociocultural awareness and knowledge in order to consider how students’ experiences are shaped in and through physical education classes...read more

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Gathers useful information for strength coaches, fitness instructors, and physical therapists developing individualized programs, and covers types of training, muscle structure, and special adaptations

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Product Description: A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people develop essential life skills. Olympic Education: An international review is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the diffusion and implementation of Olympic education programmes around the world...read more

David Kirk analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in an historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the second world war, it attempts to illustrate how the meaning of school physical education and its aims, content and pedagogy were contested by a number of vying groups. It stresses the influence of the culture of postwar social reconstruction in shaping these groups' ideas about physical education. Through this analysis, the book attempts to explain how physical education has been socially constructed during the postwar years and, more specifically, to suggest how the subject came to be used as a symbol of subversive, left wing values in the campaign leading up to the 1987 election. In more general terms, the book provides a case study of the social construction of school knowledge.The book takes a new approach to the question of curriculum change in physical education, building on increasing interest in historical research in the field of curriculum studies more generally. It adopts a social constructionist perspective, arguing that change occurs through the active involvement of competing groups in struggles over limited material and ideological (discursive) resources. It also draws on recent developments in social and cultural theory, particularly the concepts of discourse and ideological hegemony, to explain how the meaning of physical education has been constructed, and how particular definitions of the subject have become orthodoxes. The book presents new historical evidence from a period which has been neglected by researchers in physical education. Until now, most attention has been paid to the nineteenth century, and there are no other published studies of the development of school physical education in the post second world war period. This is a major omission in the literature, however, since 1945 marked a watershed in the development of physical education as the subject is currently understood and practised in schools.

Product Description: This text provides practical information on how to use current technology to improve the quality of physical education classes. Written specially for technology novices, this primer explains classroom applications for: fitness training equipment, camcorders and video recorders, and computers...read more

Product Description: SPSS is the international standard software package for data analysis in the social sciences. This book is the only SPSS guide designed specifically for students in the fields of sport, exercise and kinesiology. It Includes sport specific cases and data throughout.

Product Description: Everything a home schooling parent needs to educate their children and meet physical education requirements.Physical fitness requirements are a part of the required curriculum for parents who want to teach their children in their homes, but it can be difficult to provide structured exercise plans...read more

Exploring the issues and enduring themes in physical education, this work focuses on the United Kingdom, incorporating a global dimension. The topics covered include: the requirements of National Curriculum Physical Education; the relationship between physical education and sport; extra-curricular physical education; and more.

Product Description: After the hurly-burly of the big London hospital where she had been working, Judith found it a very pleasant change to be offered a private job looking after a charming patient, Lady Cresswell, in the Lake District. Her patient gave her no trouble at all—which was more than could be said for her son, the disagreeable Professor Charles Cresswell...read more

This new edition provides a current, complete and balanced overview in the field of physical education, sport and exercise science. This book continues to cover physical education from its historical foundations to its role in today's society and the future while using the most current overview of the field available. The book surveys both teaching and non-teaching careers and thoroughly examines technology, current issues and future trends. This major revision reflects a thorough updating of all material and references and expansion of new trends and issues. For physical educators.

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Alternative research models, meta-analysis, qualitative approaches to research, and multivariate and nonparametric techniques have been added to the second edition of this methods text for researchers in physical education and sport/exercise science. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.