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.
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 ...
Physical Literacy across the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Whitehead
June 17, 2019
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. Contributions from practitioners ...
Examination Physical Education: Policy, Practice and Possibilities
1st Edition
By Trent D. Brown, Dawn Penney
January 31, 2019
In recent decades physical education has moved from the margins, redefining itself as an academic subject. An important component of this transformation has been the introduction of high-stakes examinations at key points in a student’s school career and the emergence of ‘examination physical ...
Teacher Socialization in Physical Education: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Andrew R. Richards, Karen Lux Gaudreault
June 14, 2018
Socialization is a complex process which has a profound effect on how we experience teaching and learning. The study of teachers’ lives and careers through the lens of occupational socialization theory has a rich history in physical education. However, as the social and political climates ...
The Female Tradition in Physical Education: Women First reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By David Kirk, Patricia Vertinsky
October 12, 2017
The Female Tradition in Physical Education re-examines a key question in the history of modern education: why did the remarkably successful leaders of female physical education, who pioneered the development of the subject in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England, Canada, Australia ...
Girls, Gender and Physical Education: An Activist Approach
1st Edition
By Kimberly L. Oliver, David Kirk
March 29, 2017
In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of ...