Full Description
This innovative and user-friendly book uses a design thinking approach to examine transformative learning and liminality in physical education. Covering theory and practice, it introduces the important idea of 'threshold concepts' for physical education, helping physical educators to introduce those concepts into curriculum, pedagogy and assessment.
The book invites us to reflect on what is learned in, through and about physical education - to identify its core threshold concepts. Once identified, the book explains how the learning of threshold concepts can be planned using principles of pedagogical translation for all four learning domains (cognitive, psychomotor, affective and social). The book is arranged into three key sections which walk the reader through the underpinning concepts, use movement case studies to explore and generate threshold concepts in physical education using design thinking approach and, finally, provide a guiding Praxis Matrix for PE Threshold Concepts that can be used for physical educators across a range of school and physical activity learning contexts.
Outlining fundamental theory and useful, practical teaching and coaching advice, this book is invaluable reading for all PE teacher educators, coach educators, and any advanced student, coach or teacher looking to enrich their knowledge and professional practice.
Contents
Introduction, Part I: Core Concepts, 1. The Languages of/for Movement in 21st Century Physical Education, 2. Physical Education: Threshold Concepts, Liminality and Flow, 3. Design Thinking: Pedagogy, Process, Mindset and Space, Part II: Movement Case Studies: A Design Thinking Approach, 4. Teacher Educators and Preservice Teachers as Designers: Exploring Laban's Framework Within Gymnastics Settings - An Approach in Physical Education Teacher Education, 5. A Ball of Energy: The Use of Laban Movement Analysis and Imagery to Develop a Performer Holistically in Dance, 6. Towards the Identification of the Threshold Concepts in Parkour: A Case Study, 7. Unravelling Threshold Concepts in Outdoor Education, 8. Cultivating Values through Budo: Instilling Reigi (Respect) in Japanese Junior High School Kendo, 9. Gaelic Games Case Study Conversation: In Flow and In the Zone, 10. Thinking and Feeling within/through Physical Education: What Place for Social and Emotional Learning?, Part III: Lessons Learned: Threshold Concepts for Physical Education, 11. Threshold Concepts for Physical Education, 12. Threshold Concepts for Physical Education: From Conceptual Possibilities to Pedagogical Realities, 13. Conclusion: Final Thoughts and Future Directions
