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2,
9,
No.
Physical
Education
and
Physically
Active
Lives: A
Lifelong Approach
to
Curriculum
Development
DAWN PENNEY & MIKE JESS
Edith Cowan
University
This paper
focuses upon the relationship
between physical education and interests in enabling
more
peopletoestablish and
maintain active and healthy
lives from acurriculum development perspective. Twin
and
inter-linked concepts of
lifelong learning and lifelong
physical
activity
are presented as
aconceptualbasisfor
curriculumdevelopmentinphysicaleducation.Amultidimensionalcon
ceptualisationofphysicalactivityisintroduced
asakeyreferencepointforrethinkingthescopeandfocusofcurriculaclai
mingoraimingtofacilitatepeoplesinterest
andabilitytomaintainactiveandhealthylives.Itisarguedthatthereisan
eedforabroadeningoftheskills,
knowledgeandunderstandingencompassedwithincurriculaandforali
felongcurriculumtobeacknowledgedasthe
collectiveresponsibilityoforganisationsandindividualswithinandbey
ondexistingformaleducationstructures.
ABSTRACT
Introduction
In 2000, Penney and Chandler stressed
that:
andto
ensure
that policy
and
developments then
reect
established, and
facilitate
their
realisation.(p.
emphasis).
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the visions
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1470-1243
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online/04/020269-19
Francis Ltd
DOI:
10.1080/1357332042000233985