Physical Education Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. Research Methods in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Edited by Kathleen Armour, Doune Macdonald

   This is the first research methods book to focus entirely on physical education and youth sport. It guides the reader through the whole research process; from the first steps to completion of a dissertation or practice-based project, and introduces key topics such as: formulating a...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. Lifelong Engagement in Sport and Physical Activity

   Participation and Performance across the Lifespan

   Edited by Nicholas Holt, Margaret Talbot

   Series: ICSSPE Perspectives

   Sport and physical activity should now be understood as lifelong activity, beginning in childhood, and accessible to participants of all levels of ability. This book offers an overview of some of the core concerns underlying lifelong engagement in sport and physical activity, encompassing...

   Published July 4th 2011 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Athletics Challenges

   A Resource Pack for Teaching Athletics, 2nd Edition

   By Kevin Morgan

   Athletics Challenges is a practical resource file designed to ensure that all students have a positive learning experience in track and field athletics. It provides a wide range of activities and teaching approaches to enable teachers and coaches to promote a climate of inclusion, enjoyment and...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
10. Coaching Children in Sport

    Edited by Ian Stafford

    All coaches working with children will know that they differ substantially from adults in their capabilities, capacity for development and in their ability to meet the demands that sport places upon them. Coaching Children in Sport provides an up-to-date, authoritative and accessible guide to core...

    Published May 1st 2011 by Routledge