Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools
no longer exists?
In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical
education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are
possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of
physical education have been dominant in schools since the
mid-twentieth century and that they have been highly resistant to
change. The practice of physical education has focused on the
transmission of de-contextualised sport-techniques to large classes
of children who possess a range of interests and abilities, where
learning rarely moves beyond introductory levels. Meanwhile, the
academicization of physical education teacher education since the
1970s has left teachers less well prepared to teach this programme
than they were previously, suggesting that the futures of school
physical education and physical education teacher education are
intertwined.
Kirk explores three future scenarios for physical education,
arguing that the most likely short-term future is ?more of the
same?. He makes an impassioned call for radical reform in the
longer-term, arguing that without it physical education faces
extinction. No other book makes such bold use of history to
interrogate the present and future configurations of the
discipline, nor offers such a wide-ranging critique of physical
culture and school physical education. This book is essential
reading for all serious students and scholars of physical education
and the history and theory of education.
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