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 & non- player)  Play is not educational  Unrealistic time required Criticisms: 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  Expensive  Time consuming Criticisms: 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  De-emphasizes play  De-emphasizes fitness Criticisms: Dance-centre.com/dcengl/ dmcreative.html

SUBDISCIPLINES Key Features: 1. Interdisciplinary 2. Curriculum organized by advanced movement concepts 3. Emphasizes self-directed learning  De-emphasizes play  “Intellectualization of PE” Criticisms: 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  Training, not education  Time intensive Criticisms:

HUMANISTIC Key Features: 1. “Holistic” 2. Addresses individual needs 3. Emphasizes self-awareness 4. Affective domain more important than cognitive  Self-actualization hard to accomplish and measure  PE doesn’t contribute to personal & social outcomes Criticisms: 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  Understand thoroughly to implement  Hard to translate meanings into program activities additionalneeds.net/.../not understanding.htm Criticisms:

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  PE doesn’t contribute to broad educational aims  Fails to individualize instruction Criticisms: 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  Requires more teacher knowledge of game structures Criticism: kenetiks.com/newsletter / html