International Perspectives on Physical Education

This comprehensive book explores the challenges and opportunities presented by innovations in physical education. Employing unique case studies from diverse national, cultural and institutional settings, leading experts explore what can be learned from attempts to disrupt entrenched teaching practices.Contributing authors consider traditional physical and health education in local contexts and outline alternative approaches, while examining the successes and setbacks of these innovations to inform future practice. Chapters explore the concept of pedagogical models and their enactment; models-based practice; teachers, collaboration and professional learning; and health education and physical literacy. The book demonstrates that the challenge lies not in a lack of research-informed alternatives to multi-activity, sport technique-based approaches, but in understanding the cultural and political conditions under which these alternatives can be sustained.International Perspectives on Physical Education is a key resource for scholars and students of physical education and sport pedagogy seeking a range of insights into the reshaping of physical education. Education policymakers and practitioners will also benefit from accounts of successful strategies for overcoming the obstacles of enacting non-traditional methods.