Moving beyond sport in primary physical education

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.

Type

Chapter in book

Language

en

Description

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

9781138682344

Collections

Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing