Moving beyond sport in primary physical education
Abstract
It is almost impossible to separate primary physical education from the notion of ‘health’. From policies to pedagogies to curricula, primary school PE is persistently positioned as a field that will, in numerous ways, enable students to live healthier lives. As the first line of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) document Quality physical education – guidelines for policy-makers asserts: “sport and physical education are essential to youth, to healthy lives” (UNESCO, 2015: 4). However, the ‘marriage’ between PE and health is not necessarily a straightforward, or even happy, relationship.Citation
Ward, G. (2017) Moving beyond sport in primary physical education, in Griggs, G. and Petrie, K. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Primary Physical Education. London: Routledge, pp. 20-39.Publisher
RoutledgeAdditional Links
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Routledge Handbook of Primary Physical Education in Nov 2017, available online: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315545257-2 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISBN
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