SPORT EDUCATION

Key Features:
1. Seasons
2. Affiliation (long term)
3. Formal competition
4. Culminating event
5. Record keeping
6. Festivity

St-charles.lib.il.us//yrl/
lists/biosports.htm

SPORT EDUCATION
Differences from
Institutionalized Sport:
1. Students more involved
2. Developmentally appropriate
3. Diverse roles (player & nonplayer)
Criticisms:
Play is not educational
Unrealistic time required
St-charles.lib.il.us//yrl/
lists/biosports.htm

WILDERNESS SPORTS
Key Features:
1. Often off-site
2. Curriculum organized by
challenge activities
3. Emphasizes problem solving
Criticisms:
Expensive
Time consuming
southernoregon.org/KLM/
canoeing.htm

MOVEMENT EDUCATION
Key Features:
1. Based on work of Laban
2. Curriculum organized by
basic movement concepts
3. Emphasizes problem solving
4. Addresses individual needs
Criticisms:
De-emphasizes play
De-emphasizes fitness
Dance-centre.com/dcengl/
dmcreative.html

SUBDISCIPLINES
Key Features:
1. Interdisciplinary
2. Curriculum organized by
advanced movement concepts
3. Emphasizes self-directed
learning

Criticisms:
De-emphasizes play
Intellectualization of PE

everydayspelling.com/grade7
/xcurricular/xcur7les17.html

FITNESS EDUCATION
Key Features:
1. Education of the physical
2. Curriculum organized by
fitness components
3. Emphasizes PE contribution
to health
Criticisms:
Training, not education
Time intensive

HUMANISTIC
Key Features:

1. Holistic
2. Addresses individual needs
3. Emphasizes self-awareness
4. Affective domain more
important than cognitive

Criticisms:
Self-actualization hard to
accomplish and measure
PE doesnt contribute to
personal & social outcomes
win-edge.com/

PERSONAL MEANING
Key Features:

1. Emphasizes personal significance:

Intrinsic value, instrumental value
2. Curriculum organized by meanings:
Fitness, performance, transcendence
3. Emphasizes self-directed learning
4. Focus on process of learning

additionalneeds.net/.../not
understanding.htm

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Understand thoroughly to implement

Hard to translate meanings
into program activities

DEVELOPMENTAL
Key Features:

1. Education through the physical

2. Curriculum organized by developmental themes
3. Holistic- Integrates broad bodies of knowledge:
Self, movement, self in movement, adapting to environment
4. Focus on process of learning, i.e. learning how to learn

Criticisms:
PE doesnt contribute to broad
educational aims
Fails to individualize instruction

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nestacertified.com/ holistic.html

GAMES FOR UNDERSTANDING

Key Features:
1. Curriculum organized by game types
2. Move learner toward cognitive
dissonance
3. Accounts for learning and
motivation theory
4. Emphasizes decision making
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Criticism:
Requires

more teacher
knowledge of game structures

kenetiks.com/newsletter
/2004-08.html