Oxford University Press Health and Physical Education: Issues for Curriculum in Aust

Healthy bodies encourage healthy minds.Health and Physical Education fills the need for a text that explores contemporary Health and Physical Education curriculum issues in Australia and New Zealand. This book investigates and analyses curriculum issues and the part that proactive HPE teachers can play in reforming and improving the role of HPE within primary and secondary schools’ curriculum. Key FeaturesComprehensive discussion of concepts central to health and physical. Education curriculum in Australia and New Zealand Teacher Boxes – real life examples to illustrate theory in real school situations Unique insights into power struggles within curriculum construction – who benefits and who loses? Thorough exploration of discourses, dominant and marginal, evident in health and physical education curriculum: and agendas for further development and research Contributors from around Australia and New Zealand ensure a variety of material and perspectives.