Survival of the Fit: How Physical Education Ensures Academic Achievement and a Healthy Life

ISBN-13: 9780807764763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Daniel Fulham O'Neill

Spis treści

• Contents (Tentative)
• Acknowledgments xi
• 1. Our Physical Identities: Inborn, Important, and Impaired 1
• Introduction: No STEM Without Fitness 1 Physical Identity and the Primitive Brain 4
• The Power of Play 5
• Timing Is Everything 7
• Society and Identity 8
• Children and Identity 9
• Uncle Sam May Not Actually Want You! 11
• 2. The Rise and Fall of Physical Education 15
• Evidence-Based Physical Education: Why Rebranding Is Needed 15
• What We Do Not Do in Our Daily Lives (Baby Boomers Take Note!) 17
• What Children Do Not Do After School 18
• Mother Nature to the Rescue 21
• They Don’t Have Time, and It’s Dangerous 21
• What We Do Not Do for Work 23
• The Adulting of Youth Play 24
• A System Put in Place for a Very Different Time 26
• Physical Education and Interscholastic Sports 28
• In Support of Organized Sports: Making It Fun for All Participants 32
• Myths and Identities: Do Not Expect Too Much from a Game 35
• The Athletic Lottery Winners 38
• Wild Game 40
• The Right Side of History 42
• What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? 43
• Don’t Become What You Eat 45
• 3. Roadblocks to Rebranding Physical Education in Today’s Schools 47
• Experience vs. Expertise 47
• Federal Input for Physical Education 50
• Physical Education in American Schools Today 52
• 4.Removing the Roadblocks: Establishing Rebranded Physical Education 70
• Mother Nature’s Last Stand 70
• Money, Money Everywhere, but Not a Drop for PE 71
• PE: The Only Subject That May Need Standardized Testing 72
• If You Can’t Teach, Don’t Teach PE: Goal Setting for the 21st Century PE Teacher 75
• Contagions You Want to Catch 78
• Competitive Sports Are Sports—They Are Rarely PE 79
• Lifelong Activities 80
• If Exergaming Is My Only Option, Give Me Football 82
• There’s No Telling Where the Money Went 83
• Follow the Money 85
• If You Want to Know Something, Maybe Just Ask 88
• Survey Says . . . 91
• Mission Statement 96
• 5.Revolutionizing and Rebranding PE for Physical Identity 98
• Our School Is in Motion: A Social Contagion 98
• Goals for the Rebranded PE 99
• Sample Curricula 115
• The Revolution Starts Now (and WILL be Televised!) 165
• Think Globally, Act Locally 169
• Mission Statement (Reprise) 170
• Letters From the Front 172
• Action List for Revolutionaries 177
• Time and Money 178
• References 181
• Index 191
• About the Author 199