| ISBN13: | 9781032363905 |
| ISBN10: | 1032363908 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 204 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Weight: | 376 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 14 Illustrations, black & white; 13 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white |
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Sports, physical education in general
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An Activist Approach to Physical Education and Physical Activity
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This timely collection offers diverse perspectives on engaging young people in physical activity utilizing the Activist Approach, which facilitates interest, motivation, and learning in physical education by focusing on student-centered pedagogy, embodiment, inquiry-based education, and listening and responding to students.
This timely and diverse collection offers perspectives on engaging people in physical activity utilizing the Activist Approach. This approach facilitates interest, motivation, and learning in physical education by focusing on student-centered pedagogy, embodiment, inquiry-based education, and listening and responding to students over time. The resource collates experts and beginners who have used the Activist Approach to incorporate participants? interests, motivation, and learning needs and maintain student voices in physical activity environments.
? Chapters center around three broad areas of the Activist Approach: (1) physical education settings, (2) physical activity settings, and (3) teachers? experiences of learning to use an Activist Approach in physical education and physical activity. Contributors from around the world discuss challenges and benefits experienced, issues of equity and justice, and what people gained and gave up by using the approach. Focusing on key areas in physical education settings, dance, sport, and physical activity settings, and PE teacher education and professional development, this book offers crucial, critical perspectives on how to meet people?s physical activity needs.
1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical perspectives and features of the Activist Approach; Part I: An Activist Approach in Physical Education; 3. The Joys and Challenges of Engaging in an Activist Approach with Adolescent Girls in a Physical Education Setting; 4. Opening Our Eyes to Student-Centered Practice: Learning from Preservice Teachers? Experiences; 5. "Teaching Faceless Students": Exploring the Possibilities of an Activist Approach in Remote Health and Physical Education Teacher Education; Part II: An Activist Approach in Physical Activity Settings; 6. "We Wanted to Choreograph It, Not BE in It!": Listening and Responding to Youth in a Middle School Dance Club; 7. An Activist Approach in Sport for Development Programs; 8. Enhancing Athlete Engagement: The Impact of Student-Centered Pedagogy in Strength and Conditioning Coaching; 9. Youth Researchers: Engaging Young People in Research Through an Activist Approach; 10. "It?s MoreAabout Sharing the Weight": An Activist Approach to Community Programs; Part III: Teachers? Experiences of Learning to Use an Activist Approach in Physical Education and Physical Activity; 11. "Thinking More Broadly Than Sport": A PE Teacher's Journey from Sports Towards Student-Centered Learning; 12. Changing a Teaching Identity: Negotiating Cultural Influences in Becoming an Activist Teacher; 13. Exploring the Activist Approach in Camp Settings: A Sensory (Auto)Ethnography in a Firefighting Camp for Girls; 14. Conclusion: Imagining What Might Be
