Health and physical education: preparing educators for the future

Abstract

This ambitious text is grounded in the most recent and relevant scholarly research and recommended pedagogy in the Health and Physical Education field. The research complements the authors' long experience in preparing pre-service teachers to work in health and physical education. It considers the role of health and physical education within the wider educational experience and provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical underpinnings and skills required to meet the educational needs of a diverse student population. An enduring theme of the book is a concern for social justice and the health and wellbeing of the whole child in all dimesions of health. For Callcott, Miller and Wilson-Gahan this is no mere theoretical position or politically correct posture. It is instead a genuine desire to facilitate the preparation of teachers who can provide for the education of all children, not merely the motorically competent, surely one of physical education's perennial shortcomings. In publically funded systems of education, all children have a right to become the best they can be in a given curriculum area. This book takes a strongly principled though practical approach to this issue. The result is a textbook written both for the practical immediacies of the present and for the uncertainties of the future