Beyond the Boundaries of Physical Education

Educating Young People for Citizenship and Social Responsibility

Anthony Laker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135701277
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This book sets out to celebrate physical education and sport, and by doing so, encourage the educational establishment to embrace the subject area as a vehicle for the complete development of the individual. In addition, it shows that the benefits of physical activity far outweigh the shallow claims of populous magazines - there are benefits for the individual, the community and for society as a whole. Laker contends that the importance of physical education and sport in many areas of social life has been overlooked at best, and misused at worst. Physical activity has a vast contribution to make, not only as a topic of small talk on a Monday morning, but also to the personal and social development of individuals and possibly to the well-being of the global community as a whole. This book explores the land 'beyond the boundaries of the game.'

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Beyond the Boundaries of Physical Education
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Illustration Acknowledgements
• 1: Introduction
• 2: An Historical Perspective on the Purposes of Physical Education
• 3: Contemporary Physical Education: Aims, Objectives and Purposes
• 4: The Extent of the Affective Dimension in Physical Education
• 5: From Theory into Practice: What Really Happens in Schools
• 6: Responsibility, Personal, Social and Moral Education, and Citizenship: Is This Physical Education for the New Millennium?
• 7: The ‘Once and Future’ Subject: Some Current Issues in Physical Education
• 8: Conclusion
• References