Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Physical Education

There are plenty of books that help you use or create games that develop children's physical skills, and it's now widely accepted that physical activity can have a positive effect on academic achievement. But this is the first book that shows you how to tailor physical activity games specifically to enhance children's cognitive abilities.

Enhancing Children's Cognition with Physical Activity Games, written by three authorities in teacher education, exercise physiology, and sport science, shows you how to apply current concepts in child development, cognitive science,...

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 inherent in educational settings, paying attention to the ways in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is the first book to focus on complexity thinking in the context of physical education, enabling fresh ways of thinking about research, teaching, curriculum and learning.

TGfU was developed to help physical and health education professionals incorporate fun in lessons aimed at keeping children active. TGfU combines technology, education, and fun to create an environment where children enjoy learning.

Whether you are a physical education teacher, camp counselor, activity specialist, animator or any other professional dedicated to keeping school-aged children active, TGfU is a must-have book to include in your curriculum.

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Comprehensive Collection of Games
TGfU includes more than 200 games to keep children active There is sure to be...

Basketball in Physical Education includes games and activities designed to keep students of all ages captivated and on the move

Basketball in Physical Education provides an environment that is conducive to the way children learn the principles of this popular sport. The book includes tools that are valuable for physical and health education teachers, coaches, animators, activity specialists, camp counselors, and day-camp employees-basically, any individual or group dedicated to keeping children active and having fun through the game of basketball.

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Soccer in Physical Education includes games and activities designed to keep students of all ages captivated and on the move

Soccer in Physical Education provides an environment that is conducive to the way children learn the principles of this popular sport. The book includes tools that are valuable for physical and health education teachers, coaches, animators, activity specialists, camp counselors, and day-camp employees-basically, any individual or group dedicated to keeping children active and having fun through the game of soccer.

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Tag Games in Physical Education includes games and activities designed to keep students of all ages captivated and on the move

Tag Games in Physical Education provides an environment that is conducive to the way children learn the principles of pursuit and evade. The book includes tools that are valuable for physical and health education teachers, coaches, animators, activity specialists, camp counselors, and day-camp employees-basically, any individual or group dedicated to keeping children active and having fun through the game of tag.

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Categorized Lessons
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This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and culturally responsive, communitarian and justice-oriented emerges.