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Is Physical Education (PE) Universal?

Reinventing the Game

The amount of administration to support teaching seems to have almost overwhelm actual direct teaching matters. It made almost no sense for a rural village deep in the outback wanting their residents spent precious energy running for recreation. So recently, it has been crazy.

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So what now in Physical Education (PE)? A personal reflection.

Reinventing the Game

I have long subsume game under the bigger umbrella of recreational movement. Without making this paragraph a whole chapter on cognitive models, I still strongly support the idea of cognition as embedded in what we do. This issue parallels attempts we see in education when we try to separate the mind/cognition and the body.

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Structures and Ecology: Linear facilitation processes vis-à-vis non-linear developmental processes in Physical Education (PE)

Reinventing the Game

As I teach less towards year-end, administrative work pile up, thoughts become preoccupied with non-direct teaching matters. It was clear that reflective mood is directly proportional to how much on-the-ground teaching and observation is happening, at least for me.