Pedagogy and Human Movement
Pedagogy and Human Movement

Author: Richard Tinning

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1134088868

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Across the full range of human movement studies and their many sub-disciplines, established institutional practices and forms of pedagogy are used to (re)produce valued knowledge about human movement. Pedagogy and Human Movement explores this pedagogy in detail to reveal its applications and meanings within individual fields. This unique book examines the epistemological assumptions underlying each of these pedagogical systems, and their successes and limitations as ways of (re)producing knowledge related to physical activity, the body, and health. It also considers how the pedagogical discourses and devices employed influence the ways of thinking, practice, dispositions and identities of those who work in the fields of sport, exercise and other human movement fields. With a scope that includes physical education, exercise and sports science, sports sociology and cultural studies, kinesiology, health promotion, human performance and dance, amongst other subjects, Pedagogy and Human Movement is the most comprehensive study of pedagogical cultures in human movement currently available. It is an invaluable resource for anybody with an interest in human movement studies.

Sports Coaching Cultures
Sports Coaching Cultures

Author: Kathleen M. Armour

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 113433401X

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Sports Coaching Cultures is about expert coaches and the ways in which their individual life and career experiences lead to their personal beliefs about effective coaching.

Issues and Values in Sport and Leisure Cultures
Issues and Values in Sport and Leisure Cultures

Author: Marc Keech

Publisher: Csrc Editions

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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This collection of essays explores a number of issues, primarily concerned with value, which might arise from the study and practice of sport. Examples from the Olympic movement are used throughout.

Workplace Learning in Physical Education
Workplace Learning in Physical Education

Author: Tony Rossi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-05

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 113647935X

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Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from the experiences of pre-service and beginning teachers, the book takes a closer look at how professional knowledge is developed by investigating the notions of ‘professional’ and ‘workplace learning’ by drawing on data from a five year project. The book also critically examines the literature associated with, and the rhetoric that surrounds ‘the practicum’, ‘fieldwork’ ‘school experience’ and the ‘induction year’. The book is structured around five significant dimensions of workplace learning: Social tasks of teaching and learning to teach Performance, practice and praxis Identity, subjectivities and the profession/al Space and place for, and of, learning Micropolitics As well as identifying important implications for policy, practice and research methodology in physical education and teacher education, the book also shows how research can be a powerful medium for the communication of good practice. This is an important book for all students, pre-service and beginning teachers working in physical education, for academics researching teacher workspaces, and for anybody with an interest in the wider themes of teacher education, professional practice and professional learning in the workplace.

Health Education
Health Education

Author: Katie Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1135072140

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Health Education: Critical perspectives provides a socio-cultural and critical approach to health education. The book draws together international experts in the fields of health and education who deconstruct contemporary discourses and practices, and re-imagine a health education that both connects with young people and offers a way forward in addressing issues of health and wellbeing. Chapters within specifically link academic work on neoliberalism, healthism, risk and the body to wider discourses of health and health education. They challenge current practices and call for a re-thinking of current health programs in education settings. A unique feature of this book is the analyses of health education from both political and applied levels across a range of international contexts. The book is divided into three sections: the social and political contexts informing health education how individual health issues (sexuality, alcohol, mental health, the body and obesity, nutrition) articulate in education in complex ways alternative ways to think about health and health education pedagogy. The overall theme of the book offers a perspective that the current approach to health education – promoting a fear of ill health, self-surveillance and individual responsibility – can become a form of health fascism, and we need to be cognisant of this potential and its consequences for young people. The book will be of key interest to academics and researchers exploring the political context of health education.

Globalization, Social Justice, and the Helping Professions
Globalization, Social Justice, and the Helping Professions

Author: William Roth

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1438432224

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This landmark book brings together the reality of globalization and the imperative for social justice for helping professionals and students. Helping professions such as social work, counseling, and community building in non-profit agencies, NGOs, and government and the people and needs they serve can no longer be understood outside a global framework. While the very notion of helping professions is entails a social justice perspective, the relationship between the effects of globalization and the requirements of social justice have been missing from the literature, education, and practice of these fields. This book provides an understanding of the economic and social dimensions of globalization, how globalization increases the interdependence of nations, the particular risks and opportunities it presents, and how some aspects of globalization can exacerbate oppression and marginalization. There are particular explorations of the challenges globalization presents in Africa and South America and a consideration of the special needs of children and families in the global context. This is a necessary volume. Its distinguished contributors have various perspectives on globalization, but all write to inform and assist the work of those whose vocation is to help others.

Physical Activity Sciences
Physical Activity Sciences

Author: Claude Bouchard

Publisher: Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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This text provides a detailed overview of the Canadian physical activity sciences - covering the subfields of both research and professional practice areas. Featuring contributions from Canadian scientists and professional leaders in 23 subfields of research and professions, this text aims to stimulate interest among Canadian undergraduates in physical education, the outdoors, leisure studies, fitness, coaching, health education, and exercise and sport sciences.