The sports monograph: critical perspectives on socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education

Palmer, Clive Alan orcid iconORCID: 0000-0001-9925-2811 (2014) The sports monograph: critical perspectives on socio-cultural sport, coaching and Physical Education. SSTO Publications, Preston. ISBN 978-0-9566270-6-3

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Abstract

With over 120 contributors across 60 chapters, their ages ranging from 6 months to 60 years, the Sports Monograph represents a compendium of voices; telling experiences and rich perspectives, all stimulated by personal involvement in sport, Physical Education and sports culture. Consequently, the volume has a broad remit but a common theme. This has permitted a refreshing degree of freedom for people across a wide spectrum of education to register their thoughts and feelings about physical culture as they may have experienced it. Chapters are generally of two styles; first, academic essays of sporting interest with critical and factual discussion, and second, creative stories, poems and other biographical reflections which bring to the fore the realities of sport and PE. The latter conspicuously holding up a mirror to those theorised experiences, revealing quite vividly the primacy, sensuality and emotional importance of being physically educated, but through the medium of literature.


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