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<EM>Creative Approaches to Physical Education provides guidance on how to develop innovative new approaches to the delivery of each area of the National Curriculum for PE at Key Stages 2 and 3.
The ideas have all been successfully developed in schools where every child has been encouraged to find success and to express themselves in new ways that surprise and delight teachers. Pupils feel ownership of their learning and pride in their achievements, fostering interest, creativity and motivation.
Ideal for non-specialist and specialist PE teachers and trainee teachers alike, this book:
- explores the PE curriculum in a much wider sense than traditional approaches allow
- covers the key areas of physical education such as games, dance and gymnastics
- inspires us to look afresh at how we can exploit the learning potential of the outdoors
- shows how children use skills to express themselves creatively
- gives innovative suggestions for the use of ICT in PE teaching to encourage independent, personalised leaning
- examines how physical education can be linked with other subjects in a creative way.
Childhood obesity is a growing concern and there are worries that young people have few purposeful leisure interests. This book offers teachers and all those who work with young people alternative approaches and activities that allow young people to express their creative side through physical activity and discover active healthy interests that will last a lifetime.
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Creative Approaches to Physical Education
Creative Approaches to Physical Education
Helping children to achieve their true potential
Edited by Jim Lavin
First published 2008 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2008 Jim Lavin 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 Creative approaches to physical education : helping children to achieve their true potential / edited by Jim Lavin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–415–44588–7 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–203–92784–7 (ebook) 1. Physical education for children—Study and teaching (Elementary)—Great Britain. 2. Physical fitness for children—Study and teaching (Elementary)—Great Britain. I. Lavin, Jim. GV443.C74 2008 613.7'042—dc22 2007044887 ISBN 0-203-92784-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–44588–4 (pbk) ISBN10: 0–203–92784–2 (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–44588–7 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–92784–7 (ebk)
Contents
List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Preface 1
The creative agenda and its relationship to physical education
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Jim Lavin
The nature of creativity in school 3 The relationship of physical education to creativity 4 Physical education teachers’ understanding of creativity 4 Teaching styles appropriate to the creativity agenda 5 The distinction between cre