Teaching Health and Physical Education in Australian Schools, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (December 5, 2005) © 2006

  • Louise McCuaig
  • Lisa Hunter
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For primary education students

Teaching Health & Physical Education in Australian Primary Schools is an introduction to the task of teaching Health and Physical Education (HPE). It provides an account of many of the issues and concerns students will encounter as a beginning teacher working within this Key Learning Area (KLA).

This book reflects the variability and complexity in the KLA as it is represented and experienced across Australian states and territories. Accommodating a diverse range of perspectives, students can adopt and implement approaches that best serve the contexts within which they will teach health, personal development and physical education.

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • SECTION A: HPE AS A KEY LEARNING AREA
  • 1. Making a certain citizen: Schooling and HPE
  • 2. Educational rationale for movement in education
  • 3. Educational rationale for Health & PD in education
  • 4. Why the KLA? And why now?
  • 5. What other models for curriculum are around?
  • SECTION B: THE CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY SCHOOLING
  • 6. Whose responsibility is HPE anyway?
  • 7. HPE in the health promoting school
  • 8. Literacy issues and HPE
  • 9. HPE and the 'obesity epidemic'
  • 10. HPE as risky practice: Litigation concerns
  • 11. Special considerations for HPE in rural schools
  • SECTION C: THE STUDENT IN SCHOOL
  • 12. New kids in new times/Consuming kids
  • 13. Young people, embodied learning and HPE
  • 14. Pleasure or pain: student's perspectives on HPE
  • SECTION D: IMPLEMENTING HPE
  • 15. Time Out: Planning from outcomes
  • Curriculum issues
  • 16. Pursuing HPE outcomes through health education
  • 17. Pursuing HPE outcomes through outdoor education
  • 18. Pursuing HPE outcomes through personal development education
  • 19. Pursuing HPE outcomes through physical education
  • 20. Pursuing HPE outcomes through sport education & school sport
  • Issues in pedagogy
  • 21. Thinking about good teaching in physical education?
  • 22. Integrating learning
  • 23. Teaching for inclusivity
  • 24. Making sense of teaching skills and games
  • Issues in assessment & reporting
  • 25. Assessment and reporting of learning outcomes in HPE
  • 26. Assessment for accountability
  • SECTION E: ISSUES IN BEING A (STUDENT) TEACHER
  • 27. Class 'control and management'
  • 28. Reflecting on your teaching

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