Overview
- Explores how physical education be best enacted to optimise children's wellbeing
- Examines data from school communities around the world
- Demonstrates the importance of physical education within children's wider holistic learning
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This book explores how physical education (PE) can be best enacted in primary schools in order to optimise children’s wellbeing. Drawing together extensive data from school communities around the globe, the author examines multiple dimensions of child health in practice. Ultimately, the findings suggest that PE is imperative within the wider landscape of children’s holistic learning, offering a powerful platform for meaningful connections across learning areas. While quantitative research has long evidenced the benefits of physical activity, this book contributes to the complex and global issue of what effective health and wellbeing approaches look like in practice. It is natural for children to enjoy movement for the purposes of play, exploration, learning and development: this book is essential reading for educators looking to enhance children’s wellbeing and general health.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Timothy Lynch is Assistant Headteacher at Hornbill School, Brunei and Adjunct Professor (Senior Assistant) in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei. An experienced teacher, he is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physical Education and Wellbeing
Book Subtitle: Global and Holistic Approaches to Child Health
Authors: Timothy Lynch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22266-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22268-0Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22266-6Published: 25 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Sport Education and Didactics, Child Well-being, International and Comparative Education