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1. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals)

   The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain

   By David Kirk

   First published in 1992, David Kirk’s book analyses the public debate leading up to the 1987 General Election over the place and purpose of physical education in British schools. By locating this debate in a historical context, specifically in the period following the end of the Second World War,...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
3. Physical Education

   Edited by David Kirk

   Series: Major Themes in Education

   As academic thinking about and around physical education continues to flourish and develop, this new title in the Routledge series, Major Themes in Education, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in research...

   Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. Physical Education Futures

   By David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published June 16th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Physical Education Reader

   Edited by Richard Bailey, David Kirk

   Physical Education teaching and research is fundamental to the physical and social health of our communities. The Routledge Physical Education Reader presents an authoritative and representative selection of the very best international scholarship in PE, drawn from across the full topical range of...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
6. Environmental Management for Hotels

   By David Kirk

   Environmental Management for Hotels is a textbook for hospitality students that covers the relatively new field of environmental management. The reader is guided in how to make decisions which allow hotels to obtain optimum benefits for the environment whilst not threatening their own financial...

   Published January 14th 1996 by Routledge
7. Physical Education, Curriculum And Culture

   Critical Issues In The Contemporary Crisis

   By Richard Tinning

   Edited by David Kirk

   Published May 23rd 1990 by Routledge