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.
Teaching Tactical Creativity in Sport: Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Daniel Memmert
November 07, 2016
Creativity is an essential component of sport performance. The player who can make decisions that are both unexpected – and therefore less easily predicted by his/her opponent – and appropriate is the player who is likely to be successful. In this ground-breaking new book Daniel Memmert explores ...
Workplace Learning in Physical Education: Emerging Teachers’ Stories from the Staffroom and Beyond
1st Edition
By Tony Rossi, lisahunter, Erin Christensen, Doune Macdonald
July 27, 2016
Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from ...
The Philosophy of Physical Education: A New Perspective
1st Edition
By Steven Stolz
December 07, 2015
The discipline area of physical education has historically struggled for legitimacy, sometimes being seen as a non-serious pursuit in educational terms compared to other subjects within the school curriculum. This book represents the first attempt in nearly 30 years to offer a coherent ...
Sport, Fun and Enjoyment: An Embodied Approach
1st Edition
By Ian Wellard
May 21, 2015
Sport, Fun and Enjoyment explores the pleasurable aspects of sport within the context of everyday recreational and competitive physical activities. While much recent work has focused on the relationships between physical activity, health and wellbeing, much less attention has been paid to pleasure ...
Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Light, John Quay, Stephen Harvey, Amanda Mooney
February 27, 2015
The teaching of games is a central component of any physical education or youth sport programme. Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching brings together leading international researchers and practitioners in physical education and sports coaching to examine new approaches in games teaching and ...
Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Azzarito, David Kirk
December 22, 2014
To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of ...
Complexity Thinking in Physical Education: Reframing Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Ovens, Tim Hopper, Joy Butler
September 11, 2014
In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena. Complexity provides ways of understanding that embrace uncertainty, non-linearity and the inevitable ‘messiness’ that is ...
Assessment in Physical Education: A Sociocultural Perspective
1st Edition
By Peter Hay, Dawn Penney
July 17, 2014
Assessment has widely been acknowledged as a central element of institutional education, shaping curriculum and pedagogy in powerful ways and representing a critical reference point in political, professional and public debates about educational achievement and policy directions. Within physical ...
Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health: A Narrative Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Dowling, Hayley Fitzgerald, Anne Flintoff
July 17, 2014
Issues of equity remain an essential theme throughout the study and practice of physical education (PE), youth sport and health. This important new book confronts and illuminates issues of equity and difference through the innovative use of narrative method, telling stories of difference that ...
Ethics in Youth Sport: Policy and Pedagogical Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Harvey, Richard Light
July 17, 2014
The influence of professional, adult sport on youth sport is now a global concern. Children are involved in high-stakes competitive sport at national and international levels at an increasingly young age. In addition, the use of sport as a medium for positive youth development by governments and ...
Cooperative Learning in Physical Education: A research based approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Dyson, Ashley Casey
March 13, 2014
Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional ...
Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport
1st Edition
Edited
By Symeon Dagkas, Kathleen Armour
April 11, 2013
'We can reach far more people through sport than we can through political or educational programmes. In that way, sport is more powerful than politics. We have only just started to use its potential to build up this country. We must continue to do so.' – Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela's ...