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Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education provides the societal and epistemological background for these new approaches and is essential reading to movement educators, academics and researchers as well as professionals within education, sports, health and fitness, dance, outdoor activities, etc.

Setting a common international agenda for physical education, this book asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to change in today's fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society.

Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education provides the societal and epistemological background for these new approaches and is essential reading to movement educators, academics and researchers as well as professionals within education, sports, health and fitness, dance, outdoor activities, etc.

This is the first book to offer a critical examination of the delivery of before and after-school physical activity programs from global perspectives. It introduces key theory and best practice in before and after-school physical activity research and programming.

Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines, established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re)produce valued knowledge about human movement. This book explores this pedagogy to reveal its applications and meanings within individual fields.

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists? This book 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.

Setting a common international agenda for physical education, this book asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to change in today's fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society.

Physical Literacy across the World records the progress of the concept of physical literacy over the last decade. It examines developments, issues and controversies in physical literacy studies, and looks at how the concept has been implemented around the world.

Physical Literacy across the World records the progress of the concept of physical literacy over the last decade. It examines developments, issues and controversies in physical literacy studies, and looks at how the concept has been implemented around the world.

This groundbreaking book is the first to mark a "visual turn" in understanding and researching physical culture and pedagogies, offering innovative, image-based research that reveals key issues in the domains of sport, health, and physical education studies.The book demonstrates how the visual creates dynamic pedagogical tools for revealing playful forms of embodiment, and offers the reader a range of visual methods that will enhance their own study of physical culture. Since human movement is increasingly created, established, and pedagogized beyond traditional educational sites such as schools and sport clubs, the book also explores the notion of visual pedagogy in wider physical culture, helping the reader to understand how visual-based technologies are central to people¿s engagement with physical culture today. Pedagogies, Physical Culture and Visual Methods is important reading for all advanced students and researchers with an interest in human movement, physical education, physical culture, sport studies, and research methods in education.

Focusing on youth sport as a touchstone sector of sport in society, this book examines the theoretical and empirical bases of arguments for the role of sport in social inclusion agendas. Authors are drawn from around the world and offer critical perspectives on assumptions underpinning the bold claims made about the power of sport. This book represents the most up-to-date and authoritative source of knowledge on inclusion and exclusion in youth sport. As such, it is essential reading for those who want to use sport to 'make a difference' in young people's lives. It is, therefore, recommended for students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in sports development, sports coaching, sport studies or physical education.

Drawing on global perspectives, this book provides a comprehensive framework for redesign, with new language and planning tools. This innovative, unifying, and action-oriented framework addresses policy, practice, and research, promoting a collective action project that crosses national borders.

This book pushes beyond traditional perspectives in physical education, exploring alternative and innovative approaches to socialization and highlighting future directions for studying teachers¿ lives and careers. Written by a team of leading international physical education scholars, it draws attention to important new teacher socialization research and the ways in which socialization varies across time and context.