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Issues in Physical Education stimulates student-teachers, NQTs and practising physical education teachers to reflect on issues important to improving teaching in physical education. It encourages reflection and debate as an important part of professional development. Issues discussed include: aims as an issue in physical education breadth, balance and assessment in the physical education curriculum equality and the inclusion of pupils with special needs in physical education progression and continuity in physical education between primary and secondary schools community initiatives in physical education physical education, health and life-long participation in physical activity.
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Issues in Physical Education Issues in Physical Education encourages student teachers, NQTs and practising teachers to reflect on issues important to planning, teaching and evaluating in physical education. In school-based initial teacher education there is little time to focus on these issues and their impact on the design, delivery and evaluation of physical education programmes. This book is designed to redress this balance and encourages reflection and debate as an important part of professional development. The issues discussed include: • breadth, balance and assessment in the physical education curriculum • equality and the inclusion of pupils with different needs and from different cultural backgrounds in physical education • progression and continuity in physical education between primary and secondary schools • distinctions between sport and physical education and approaches to teaching games • physical education, health and life-long participation in physical activity. Issues in Physical Education is written by professionals with a wide experience of teaching physical education in schools and in initial teacher education. It is important reading for all students and teachers of physical education in primary or secondary schools. Susan Capel is a Professor in the Department of Sport Sciences at Brunel University and Vice President of the Physical Education Association of the United Kingdom. Susan Piotrowski is Assistant Principal (Students) at Canterbury Christ Church University College. She was previously a principal lecturer in Sport Science and Education. Issues in Subject Teaching Series Edited by Susan Capel, Jon Davison, James Arthur and John Moss. Other titles in the series: Issues in Design and Technology Teaching Issues in English Teaching Issues in Geography Teaching Issues in History Teaching Issues in Mathematics Teaching Issues in Modern Foreign Languages Teaching Issues in Music Teaching Issues in Religious Education Teaching Issues in Science Teaching Issues in Teaching Using ICT Issues in Physical Education Edited by Susan Capel and Susan Piotrowski London and New York First published 2000 by RoutledgeFalmer 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by RoutledgeFalmer 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001 RoutledgeFalmer is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2000 Selection and editorial matter, Susan Capel and Susan Piotrowski; individual chapters, their contributors. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Issues in physical education / edited by Susan Capel and Susan Piotrowski. 288 pp. 15.6 x 23.4