Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

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1. Complexity Thinking in Physical Education

   Reframing Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research

   Edited by Alan Ovens, Tim Hopper, Joy Butler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Assessment in Physical Education

   A Sociocultural Perspective

   By Peter Hay, Dawn Penney

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ethics in Youth Sport

   Policy and Pedagogical Applications

   Edited by Stephen Harvey, Richard Light

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Game Sense

   Pedagogy for Performance, Participation and Enjoyment

   By Richard Light

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Equity and Difference in Physical Education, Youth Sport and Health

   A Narrative Approach

   Edited by Fiona Dowling, Hayley Fitzgerald, Anne Flintoff

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday

   Edited by Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. Cooperative Learning in Physical Education

   A research based approach

   Edited by Ben Dyson, Ashley Casey

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Muslim Women and Sport

   Edited by Tansin Benn, Gertrud Pfister, Haifaa Jawad

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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....

   Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Sport Education

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Peter Hastie

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   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...

   Published September 8th 2011 by Routledge
10. Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport

    Edited by Symeon Dagkas, Kathleen Armour

    Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

    '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...

    Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge