Physical education futures / by David Kirk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirk, David, 1958-

Series:

Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical education and training.

Recreation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists?In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have been dominant in schools since the mid-twentieth century and that they have been highly resistant to change. The practice of physical education has focused on the transmission of de-contextualised sport-techniques to large classes of children who possess a range of interests and abilities

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The social construction of physical education: Present, past and future; 2 Defining physical education and the possibility of the id; 3 Futures talk in physical education; 4 The id of physical education-assport- techniques; 5 Continuity and discontinuity: The residue of the past in the present; 6 Four relational issues and the bigger picture; 7 Physical education futures?; 8 Securing the conditions for radical reform; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780203874622 (Ebook)

9780203874622

9781135220242

OCLC:

459794151