Curriculum: Forming and Reshaping the Vision of Physical Education in a High Need, Low Demand World of Schools
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Catherine D. Ennis, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This paper highlights events and issues in the development of physical education
as a school subject. From the origin of physical culture in the German and
Swedish “Battle of the Gymnastics Systems” to the advent of the New Physical
Education in 1927, physical education curriculum has been a contested terrain.
This remains true today as physical educators must compete for school funding
and other resources with highly valued subject areas. Unfortunately, serious contextual
constraints continue to hamper the efforts of highly motivated, effective
physical educators to teach physical education content in schools. Perhaps in the
future, better opportunities can be found in other venues where physical education
can one day be perceived as a high need, high demand priority for children
and their families.
Curriculum: Forming and Reshaping the Vision of Physical Education in a High Need, Low Demand World of Schools
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Quest 2006, 58, 41-59
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- Curriculum, Physical education, Fitness, Student attitudes, Budgeting, School funding