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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.

35 Series Titles


Game Sense Pedagogy for Performance, Participation and Enjoyment

Game Sense: Pedagogy for Performance, Participation and Enjoyment

1st Edition

By Richard Light
August 04, 2012

Game Sense is an exciting and innovative approach to coaching and physical education that places the game at the heart of the session. It encourages the player to develop skills in a realistic context, to become more tactically aware, to make better decisions and to have more fun. Game Sense is a ...

Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

1st Edition

Edited By Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald
May 22, 2012

Despite society’s current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children’s health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people’s lives. In this important...

Muslim Women and Sport

Muslim Women and Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Tansin Benn, Gertrud Pfister, Haifaa Jawad
February 10, 2012

Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world....

Sport Education International Perspectives

Sport Education: International Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Hastie
November 04, 2011

Sport Education: International Perspectives presents a series of studies of the innovative pedagogical model that has taken the physical education world by storm. Since the emergence of the Sport Education model in the mid-1990s, it has been adopted and adapted in physical education programs around...

Physical Education Futures

Physical Education Futures

1st Edition

By David Kirk
June 17, 2011

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists? In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have ...

Pedagogy and Human Movement Theory, Practice, Research

Pedagogy and Human Movement: Theory, Practice, Research

1st Edition

By Richard Tinning
March 17, 2011

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. Pedagogy and Human Movement explores this pedagogy in detail to reveal its applications and ...

Young People's Voices in Physical Education and Youth Sport

Young People's Voices in Physical Education and Youth Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Mary O'Sullivan, Ann MacPhail
July 21, 2010

How do children and young people experience and understand sport and physical activity? What value do they attach to physical education and physical literacy? This important new book attempts to engage more directly than ever before with the experiences of young people by placing the voices of the ...

Physical Literacy Throughout the Lifecourse

Physical Literacy: Throughout the Lifecourse

1st Edition

Edited By Margaret Whitehead
May 03, 2010

What is physical literacy? What are the benefits of being physically literate? The term ‘physical literacy’ describes the motivation, confidence, physical competence, understanding and knowledge that individuals develop in order to maintain physical activity at an appropriate level throughout their...

Disability and Youth Sport

Disability and Youth Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Hayley Fitzgerald
January 14, 2009

How can or does youth sport reconcile what seems to be a fundamental contradiction between understandings of sport and disability? Has youth sport been challenged in anyway? Have alternative views of sport for disabled people been presented? Examining some of the latest research, this book ...

Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport

Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Wellard
January 10, 2008

Much writing on gender and sport is focused upon the negative impact of girls’ exclusion from the arena, suggesting by inference that current practice in sport and physical education offers an uncomplicatedly positive sport experience for boys, and that gender, in and of itself, offers a simple ...

Children, Obesity and Exercise Prevention, Treatment and Management of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

Children, Obesity and Exercise: Prevention, Treatment and Management of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

1st Edition

Edited By Andrew P. Hills, Neil A. King, Nuala M. Byrne
August 14, 2007

Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Because of this increase, and awareness of the risks to long term health that childhood obesity presents, the phenomena is now described by many as a global epidemic.   Children, Obesity and ...

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