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How do children and young people experience and understand sport and physical activity? What value do they attach to physical education and physical literacy? This important new book attempts to engage more directly than ever before with the experiences of young people by placing the voices of the young people themselves at the centre of the discussion. As the need to listen to young people becomes increasingly enshrined in public policy and political debate, this book illuminates our understanding of an important aspect of the everyday lives of many young people.

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At a time when sports coverage inundates the airwaves, when coaches are routinely among the highest-paid school employees, and when professional sports recruiters are increasingly focusing on high school students, "Sports and Education" offers a balanced, thought-provoking look at a deep-cutting issue. Is it time for the United States to mirror a number of other industrialized countries and remove sports from educational settings, as many education and athletic professionals have suggested?

"Sports and Education" challenges many long-held assumptions and examines all viewpoints...

Every child deserves to be taught the tools necessary to grow into a healthy and peaceful individual. Now, you can effectively teach those tools to one or 1,000 children using Story and Stretch: Narrative Yoga for Kids, a body-centered life education and yoga play therapy program. The Story and Stretch method, clearly outlined in this book, combines the ancient art of oral storytelling and the healing practice of yoga to help kids connect with their inner world of creativity while acquiring listening and literary skills, body awareness and character development. Written by mom, certified...

In this fresh and engaging introduction to sports coaching, Lynn Kidman and Stephanie Hanrahan guide students through the coaching process. Focusing on the practical aspects of sports coaching, the book helps students to develop their basic technical skills as well as strategies for working with individual and team athletes, and to plan and implement effective coaching sessions.

The book develops an "athlete-centred approach" to sports coaching, by which athletes take ownership of their learning, in turn strengthening their abilities to retain key skills and to make effective...

Hide-and-seek is an age-old game that has never lost its allure. Geocaching--using a global positioning system and other navigational techniques to find hidden containers, or caches--brings this classic favorite to an exciting new level.

Geocaching for Schools and Communities is the ideal resource for organizing geocaching for learners of any age group. Written by authors who have presented geocaching at five national AAHPERD conferences, this one-stop resource provides everything you need to know about leading and participating in geocaching activities:

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'We can reach far more people through sport than we can through political or educational programmes. In that way, sport is more powerful than politics. We have only just started to use its potential to build up this country. We must continue to do so.' - Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela's statement reflects a widely held view that sport can contribute in unique and far-reaching ways to the delivery of important social outcomes. But is this really the case? Can sport bring people from different backgrounds together, and in so doing act as a...

Sue Walters introduces the keyissues underlying contemporary work, thinking and practice aroundethnicity, 'race' and education drawing on current research, debate, policy and practice across mainstream and non-mainstream educationalsettings.

In this engaging andthought-provoking introduction, Sue Walters introduces readers to keyresearch, debates and policy inorder to offer a guide to current thinking and practice. Reflectiveactivities encourage readers to engage with the issues discussed, annotatedfurther reading suggestions provide pointers for those looking to...

This Fitness for Life: Elementary School classroom guide contains everything you need to deliver standards-based wellness lesson plans to second-grade students. The guide and its DVD-ROM include the following:

- Daily lesson plans for class discussions and activity breaks, which take only a few minutes, fit easily into your schedule, and integrate with other subject matter areas (such as math, social studies, music, and art)

- Over two hours of fun plug-and-play video routines (featuring embedded wellness messages) for activity breaks, plus instructional...