Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
About the Book Series
The Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport series is a forum for the discussion of the latest and most important ideas and issues in physical education, sport, and active leisure for young people across school, club and recreational settings. The series presents the work of the best well-established and emerging scholars from around the world, offering a truly international perspective on policy and practice. It aims to enhance our understanding of key challenges, to inform academic debate, and to have a high impact on both policy and practice, and is thus an essential resource for all serious students of physical education and youth sport.
Goals and Values in Physical Education: A Focus on the Affective Domain
1st Edition
By Mykola Sainchuk
April 28, 2026
This book explores the fundamental goals and values of physical education through an examination of philosophical ideas, meanings, and the critical relationship between educational objectives and underlying value systems. The work addresses longstanding and often overlooked challenges in physical ...
Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Workforce Research and Development: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Hal A. Lawson, Emily M. Jones, Kevin Andrew Richards
May 27, 2025
This is the first book to examine physical education from the perspective of workforce research and development. It adopts a whole system approach—including schools, higher education and public policy—to advance an action‑oriented framework for meeting the needs, challenges and opportunities of the...
Reconceptualizing Physical Education: A Curriculum Framework for Physical Literacy
1st Edition
By Ang Chen
May 27, 2024
Physical education curricula evolved to emphasize physical training, personal hygiene, character development, fitness development, sports competency, and health. These emphases led to different ways to conceptualize the curricula for primary and secondary schools. This book raises a need to ...
Diversity, Difference and Social Justice in Physical Education: Challenges and Strategies in a Translocated World
1st Edition
By Bonnie Pang, Tony Rossi
September 25, 2023
This book presents a detailed analysis of the experiences of (minority ethnic) physical education (PE) teachers in both schools and higher education contexts. It examines and questions the lack of ethnic diversity in PE teacher education in high-income developed countries and suggests important new...
Social Justice Pedagogies in Health and Physical Education
1st Edition
By Göran Gerdin, Wayne Smith, Rod Philpot, Katarina Schenker, Kjersti Mordal Moen, Susanne Linnér, Knut Westlie, Lena Larsson
January 09, 2023
This book makes the case that school Health and Physical Education (HPE) can make a unique contribution to young people’s physical, emotional and social health outcomes when teachers of HPE engage in pedagogies for social justice that emphasise inclusion, democracy and equity. Drawing on ...
Before and After School Physical Activity Programs: Frameworks, Critical Issues and Underserved Populations
1st Edition
Edited
By Risto Marttinen, Erin E. Centeio, Thomas Quarmby
August 01, 2022
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, and is an essential resource for ...
Learning Movements: New Perspectives of Movement Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Hakan Larsson
August 01, 2022
Contemporary ways of understanding human movements, specifically movement learning, are heavily dominated by individualistic, dualistic and mechanistic perspectives. These perspectives are individualistic in the sense that in research as well as in educational practice movements/movers are ...
Models-based Practice in Physical Education
1st Edition
By Ashley Casey, David Kirk
August 01, 2022
This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of over 40 years of research on models in physical education to suggest Models-based Practice (MbP) as an innovative future approach to physical education. It lays out the ideal conditions for MbP to flourish by situating pedagogical models at the core of ...
School Physical Education and Teacher Education: Collaborative Redesign for the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Ann MacPhail, Hal Lawson
December 13, 2021
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 changes in today’s fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society. It argues that only a ...
Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education
1st Edition
By David Kirk
September 30, 2021
This unflinching analysis explains the nature of precarity and its detrimental effects on the health and wellbeing of young people. It exposes physical educators’ unpreparedness to provide inclusive, fair and equitable forms of physical education that might empower young people to overcome the mal ...
Young People, Social Media and Health
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Goodyear, Kathleen Armour
September 30, 2020
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351026987, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licenseThe pervasiveness of social media in young people’s lives is widely acknowledged, yet ...
Digital Technology in Physical Education: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeroen Koekoek, Ivo van Hilvoorde
December 06, 2019
The rapid development of digital technologies has opened up new possibilities for how Physical Education is taught. This book offers a comprehensive, practice-oriented and critical exploration of the actual and potential applications of digital technologies in PE. It considers the opportunities ...