Health and Physical Education ─ Preparing Educators for the Future

Health and physical education encompasses the development of movement competence and health literacies crucial to child and adolescent health and wellbeing. This book continues to offer a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, understanding, skills andtheoretical underpinnings required to teach health and physical education in Australian schools. This edition outlines the latest developments to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, to help pre-service teacher educators understand the application of these concepts in practice. Maintaining a focus on the education of all learning ages, it provides a stronger focus on physical education and development in early childhood, and broader coverage of the perspectives of culturally diverse students. Well-structured and engaging, this edition has been updated to include the latest literature, figures, statistics and resources.