Summary and Rationals of Three Sources for Physcial Education
Assignment 2A
Source 1
Davis (2005) focuses on the exploration of the state and place of physical education in the curriculum and the relationship to health education. The article outlines a number of advancements from past, current and future challenges. She expressed concern that the subject of physical education can bring out issues of identity and the impact of social panic such as obesity and sedentary. She cites a number of different authors and sources throughout her article and list of factors that have influenced the relationship between physical education and developmental skills. She points out the changing nature of physical education in its self is a key challenge, the fact that the aging teaching population has brought out the growth of outside agencies offering programs to schools in the health and physical education area.
I choose this article as it relates to physical development and to the educational program I plan to develop for the children. It provides me with a blueprint in to the relationship of how health connects with physical education and what are the factors that contribute to children being less active. Davis makes the article easy to read as she breaks down how physical education has changed over the years. She acknowledges that there are other factors that affect the development of physical education, as children are now smarter, know their rights and have access to more technology than students in the past; also there are many children who come from a diverse background and family structure.
Source 2
The department of Education and Early Childhood Department (DEECD) and state that their key responsibility is to strive to do their best so that children have a better start in life to achieve optimal health, development and wellbeing. The website provides different online resources relating to physical education in the school curriculum to help teacher design a program for children to develop the competencies and beliefs
Source 1
Davis (2005) focuses on the exploration of the state and place of physical education in the curriculum and the relationship to health education. The article outlines a number of advancements from past, current and future challenges. She expressed concern that the subject of physical education can bring out issues of identity and the impact of social panic such as obesity and sedentary. She cites a number of different authors and sources throughout her article and list of factors that have influenced the relationship between physical education and developmental skills. She points out the changing nature of physical education in its self is a key challenge, the fact that the aging teaching population has brought out the growth of outside agencies offering programs to schools in the health and physical education area.
I choose this article as it relates to physical development and to the educational program I plan to develop for the children. It provides me with a blueprint in to the relationship of how health connects with physical education and what are the factors that contribute to children being less active. Davis makes the article easy to read as she breaks down how physical education has changed over the years. She acknowledges that there are other factors that affect the development of physical education, as children are now smarter, know their rights and have access to more technology than students in the past; also there are many children who come from a diverse background and family structure.
Source 2
The department of Education and Early Childhood Department (DEECD) and state that their key responsibility is to strive to do their best so that children have a better start in life to achieve optimal health, development and wellbeing. The website provides different online resources relating to physical education in the school curriculum to help teacher design a program for children to develop the competencies and beliefs