Beschreibung:
This book traces the dominant shift over the last century from an idea of physical education-as-gymnastics to an idea of physical-education-as-sport-technique, and outlines the contemporary processes of commodification and commercialiZation of physical culture and academicization of teaching that have already begun to make this emphasis on sport-related skills problematic.
1. The Social Construction of Physical Education: Present, Past and Future 2. Defining Physical Education and the Possibility of the Id2 3. Futures Talk in Physical Education 4. The Id2 of Physical Education-as-Sport-Techniques 5. Continuity and Discontinuity: The Residue of the Past in the Present 6. Four Relational Issues and the Bigger Picture 7. Physical Education Futures? 8. Securing the Conditions for Radical Reform