Debates in Physical Education

by Susan Capel (Editor), Margaret Whitehead (Editor)

Debates in Physical Education explores major issues physical education teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It engages with established and contemporary debates, promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their own point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding. In addition, concerns for the short, medium and long term future of the subject are voiced, with a variety of new approaches proposed. Key issues debated include: Debates in Physical Education makes a timely and significant contribution to addressing current contentious issues in physical education. With its combination of expert opinion and fresh insight, this book is the ideal companion for all student and practising teachers engaged in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and Masters level study.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published November 12, 2012

Reviews

[Al · Rating 1 out of 5]

Although there were absolutely some great points in here to consider, this book was extremely dry. I'm not sure who the target audience is, but there's no way that physical education teachers are sitting down to read this. Often having so many citations in a chapter detracts from the flow of the reading, perhaps another citation style would have been beneficial? It is also a bit unfortunate that it is so focused on the UK experience as it would've been nice to have more information about PE in general/world-wide. There were some aspects such as the vignettes included in the coaching chapter that would have been better to read if that was the way the whole book was written. Again, some really important material dispersed throughout the book, but extremely dry. Honestly, if the pandemic wasn't happening, I don't think there is any way that I would have finished this book.