Physical education futures / / by David Kirk

• Autore: Kirk David <1958->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Disciplina: 613.7
• Soggetto topico: Physical education and training; Recreation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Physical education futures
• ISBN: 9780203874622 (Ebook)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955395503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport