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Defining Physical Education (Routledge Revivals) The Social Construction of a School Subject in Postwar Britain
By David Kirk
Copyright 1992
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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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, it attempts to illustrate how the meaning of school physical education and its aims, content and... Read more
1. Defining Physical Education: Crisis, Conflict and a Recent Debate 2. Curriculum History and Physical Education as Discourse 3. Politics, Culture and Education in Postwar Britain 4. Gymnastic s and Gender: Contesting the Meaning of Physical Education 5. The Games Ethic, Mass Secondary Schooling and the Consolidation of Traditional Physical Education 6. Health, Fitness and the Rise of Scientific Functionalism 7. The Social construction of Physical Education: Connecting Past, Present and Future
Biography
David Kirk
