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Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R4,630
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Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday (Hardcover, New): Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald

Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday (Hardcover, New)

Jan Wright, Doune Macdonald; Series edited by Richard Bailey

Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

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Despite society's current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity, increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children's health, there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical activity in young people's lives. In this important new collection, leading international scholars address that deficit by exploring the differences in young people's experiences and meanings of physical activity as these are related to their social, cultural and geographical locations, to their abilities and their social and personal biographies.

The book places young people's everyday lives at the centre of the study, arguing that it this 'everydayness' (school, work, friendships, ethnicity, family routines, interests, finances, location) that is key to shaping the engagement of young people in physical activity. By allowing the voices of young people to be heard through these pages, the book helps the reader to make sense of how young people see physical activity in their lives.

Drawing on a breadth of theoretical frameworks, and challenging the orthodox assumptions that underpin contemporary physical activity policy, interventions and curricula, this book powerfully refutes the argument that young people are 'the problem' and instead demonstrates the complex social constructions of physical activity in the lives of young people. Young People, Physical Activity and the Everyday is essential reading for both students and researchers with a particular interest physical activity, physical education, health, youth work and social policy.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Release date: May 2010
First published: 2010
Editors: Jan Wright • Doune Macdonald
Series editors: Richard Bailey
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-49313-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Fitness & diet > Exercise & workout books > General
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LSN: 0-415-49313-7
Barcode: 9780415493130

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