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.
Play, Physical Activity and Public Health: The Reframing of Children's Leisure Lives
1st Edition
By Stephanie A. Alexander, Katherine L. Frohlich, Caroline Fusco
December 05, 2019
Are children playing less than they used to? Are rising obesity rates linked to a decline in children’s time to play freely? These and other related questions have filled the pages of newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals for the past decade. Researchers and journalists have attributed these...
Redesigning Physical Education: An Equity Agenda in Which Every Child Matters
1st Edition
Edited
By Hal A. Lawson
November 28, 2019
Redesigning Physical Education is a bold and innovative manifesto for the fundamental redesign of physical education for the twenty-first-century world. Aiming at better outcomes for children, better working conditions for teachers, and innovative solutions to the decline of school PE, it calls for...
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 ...
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 ...