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Physical Education in the UK: disconnections and reconnections
Author(s) -
Griggs Gerald,
Ward Gavin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/09585176.2012.678500
Subject(s) - curriculum , nexus (standard) , subject (documents) , space (punctuation) , physical education , sociology , pedagogy , public relations , political science , engineering , computer science , library science , embedded system , operating system
Within the UK, physical education finds itself, as a curriculum subject, in a contested space with felt pressures from competing discourses and policy areas. This paper contests that over time within this nexus, physical education has become disconnected in four specific ways: from the wider movement culture, from other curriculum subjects, within the curriculum between different age phases and between training and teacher needs. The paper discusses each of these disconnections and, importantly, offers suggestions about how reconnections might be found.