1st Edition

Physical Education Futures

By David Kirk Copyright 2010
184 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

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 been dominant in schools since the mid-twentieth century and that they have been highly resistant... Read more
1. The Social Construction of Physical Education: Present, Past and Future  2. Defining Physical Education and the Possibility of the Id 3. Futures Talk in Physical Education  4. The Id2 of Physical Education-as-Sport-Techniques  5. Continuity and Discontinuity: The Residue of the Past in the Present  6. Four Relational Issues and the Bigger Picture  7. Physical Education Futures?  8. Securing the Conditions for Radical Reform

Biography

David Kirk