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

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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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.

In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and well-being as a result. This book challenges the conventional narrative that girls are somehow to blame for this disengagement, and instead identifies important new ways of working with girls, developing a new...

Phenomenology is a philosophical approach to the study of consciousness and subjective experience. In recent years it has become a more prominent element of the social scientific study of sport and a core component of the important emergent concept of physical literacy. This book is the first to offer a philosophically-sound investigation of phenomenological perspectives on pedagogy in physical education.

The book argues that phenomenology offers a particularly interesting theoretical approach to physical education because of the closely embodied relationship between the...

In recent decades physical education has moved from the margins, redefining itself as an academic subject. An important component of this transformation has been the introduction of high-stakes examinations at key points in a student's school career and the emergence of 'examination physical education' as the dominant paradigm in many educational systems around the world.

This book is the first to explore the growing international literature on examination physical education and draw on research to extend the political, academic and professional debates around the subject...