Setting a common international agenda for physical education, this book
asks how physical education and physical education teacher education can
be reconfigured together so that they are responsive to changes in
today's fast-paced, diverse and uncertain global society.
It argues that only a revolutionary move away from national policy silos
can reinvigorate physical education and lead to improved, equitable
outcomes for children and youth, and both novice and veteran teachers.
Drawing on developing success stories in diverse places, this book
emphasizes three important strategies:
- international-comparative analyses, which facilitate cross-border
knowledge generation, innovation, professional learning and continuous
improvement;
- solid, dynamic partnerships between teacher education programmes and
exemplary school physical education programmes; and
- knowledge-generating teams consisting of exemplary teachers and
teacher educators.
Each chapter provides viable alternatives and rationales framed by
unique national and local contexts. Significantly, these chapters
announce that the work that lies ahead - and starts now - is a
collective action project. It necessitates collaborative research and
development among policy leaders, researchers, teacher education
specialists, physical education teachers and, in some cases, school-age
students.
This is essential reading for all researchers with an interest in
physical education or teacher education, and an invaluable source of new
perspectives for physical education students, pre-service and in-service
teachers, and educational administrators and policymakers.
