Physical Education in New Zealand: a Socio-Critical and Bi-Cultural Positioning
Journal Title: Journal of Physical Education & Health - Social Perspective - Year 2012, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
This paper briefly highlights the socio-historical context in which New Zealand has developed as a nation. In particular it examines how physical education’s initial development was dominated by European thought and more latterly within a bi-cultural context where the needs of an inclusive society are considered. Implicit in this development are the State’s imperatives for education, which over the last two decades have used a totally revised school curriculum as a key strategy in achieving its political and social agendas. To some degree physical education has been complicit in this. However with the relatively newly developed socio-critical physical education curriculum and the new senior school qualifications alternative ways in viewing the movement culture have become apparent. This, these authors argue, guarantees physical education immediate future.
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Ian Culpan, Hugh Galvan
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