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Principles, purpose, content and aims - including links

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Principles, purpose, content and aims - including links

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(Sport England) Aim: to help provide places that maximise opportunities for sport and physical activity for all, enabling the already active to be more so and the inactive to become active.

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Promotes growth and development for physical and psychological health

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Promotes growth and development for physical and psychological health

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Can help work towards reducing the risk of health related issues, such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes.  Along with increasing lung capacity, bone density and strength

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Physical activity is used for reducing stress and anxiety and can help boost mood using the increase in endorphins.
Physical activity can be used to improve anti social behaviour, self concept, goal setting and orientation and improve self efficacy.

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Physical education is taught in  school as is essential to develop motor skills and  enhance the well-being and reflexes of children . To improve Hand-eye coordination and body movements, which helps develop healthy body posture. Physical education teaches students the importance of physical health.

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The Education Secretary announced that the Government would develop
a cross-government school sport and activity action plan that “will consider ways to
ensure that all children have access to quality, protected PE and sport sessions during the
school week and opportunities to be physically active throughout the school day.”

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https://www.nap.edu/read/18314/chapter/5

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https://www.northamptonshiresport.org/schools-page

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Purpose: Ensure improvement in the quality of sport and PE provision for all children. We will ensure that sport and PE provision addresses the needs of all pupils, including those who belong to disadvantaged, vulnerable and gifted groups.

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Develop Students competence and knowledge of movement and safety. Engages their ability to perform a wide range of activities that are associated with a healthy and active lifestyle.

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The aim of this paper was to gain an understanding of the views of a group of physical education teacher educators on the purpose(s) of school physical education and whether, how and why these views have changed over time. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with thirteen physical education teacher educators; a fourteenth participant responded to interview questions in writing. Participants were based in seven countries: Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the USA. A relative consensus on the overarching purpose of physical education was evident, centred on physical education preparing young people for a lifetime of physical activity. The framing of this shared purpose differed somewhat between participants, reflecting a range of perspectives on the value of physical activity. Delineating the boundaries of their subject, participants characterised obesity prevention and maximising in-class physical activity as potential by-products rather than as goals of the subject. The views of many had changed over time, influenced by such factors as findings from research, societal expectations and a perceived need to legitimise physical education within school and university contexts. We note that many of the influences acting on the views of the physical education teacher educators are also known to affect practicing teachers. This suggests a possibility, in the open reflection of physical education teacher educators on the interaction between their views and the institutional and societal contexts within which they work, to provide future teachers with alternative value pathways paved with relatable explanations and shared experiences.

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Funding

This work was made possible through funding received from the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland.

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Physical education teacher educators' views regarding the purpose(s) of school physical education

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The aim of this paper was to gain an understanding of the views of a group of physical education teacher educators on the purpose(s) of school physical education and whether, how and why these views have changed over time. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with thirteen physical education teacher educators; a fourteenth participant responded to interview questions in writing.

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Develop confidence and creativity and critical thinking - Set foundations for lifelong wellbeing and learning. Encouraging students to work in teams and individualy.

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13573320601081526

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Amid the long-standing debate about the nature and purposes of physical education (PE) in schools, comparatively little research has examined the ways in which PE is viewed by young people themselves. This study set out, therefore, to explore young people's views on the nature and purposes of PE from a sociological perspective in the belief that a more adequate understanding of the process of PE requires us to appreciate something of the ways in which the subject is viewed and experienced in reality by pupils in schools. The study involved focus group interviews with 38 15-16-year-old white British young people (17 males; 21 females) from one secondary school in the north-west of England during February 2005. The main finding of the study was that young people held an amalgam of views regarding the nature and purposes of PE that centred, for the most part, upon perceptions of fun and enjoyment and the extent to which sociability is recurrently generated in lessons. In addition, young people also offered justifications based on the role of PE in health promotion and the development of game- and sport-related skills and knowledge of a kind more in tune with conventional justifications found in academic literature. It is argued that young people's views on the nature and purposes of PE are characterized by a number of well-understood, shared meanings that can only be adequately understood if we locate them within the networks of relationships characteristic of their lives more broadly. The paper concludes by arguing for the need to engage more in the realities of PE as practice, and to develop a more adequate understanding of what PE is for the young people involved, not least if government, policy-makers and teachers are to provide a more valuable and meaningful PE curriculum for them.

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Young people's views on the nature and purposes of physical education: a sociological analysis

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Amid the long-standing debate about the nature and purposes of physical education (PE) in schools, comparatively little research has examined the ways in which PE is viewed by young people themselves.

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What’s Going on Out There? An exploration of K–12 PE Curricular Models and Content Taught in Public Schools

Hodges, Michael ; Laughlin, Michael ; Brusseau, Timothy

The Physical Educator, 2018, Vol.75(5), pp.901-91

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https://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?date=2017&spage=A121&volume=88&issn=0270-1367&issue=s1&genre=article

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How much skill competence should physical education teachers have, and how do we best prepare undergraduate students for skill competence?

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(2015). How much skill competence should physical education teachers have, and how do we best prepare undergraduate students for skill competence? Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance: Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 55-58.

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The purpose of school sport can be a mixture of building character, talent spotting and as a driver for improved health and educational outcomes
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmeduc/164/16405.htm

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http://www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/wp-content/uploads/PE-Core-Subject-Paper-20-3-18.pdf