The Future of Health, Wellbeing and Physical Education: Optimising Children's Health through Local and Global Community Partnerships

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Springer, Jun 29, 2016 - Education - 174 pages
This book uses the example of a partnership journey between universities, schools, the local health industry as well as a number of government organisations which worked to ensure the growth of physical education in primary education. The initiative employed the United Nations (UN) ideals as a model and contextualised them within local schools and communities. What began as a pathway seed quickly grew to involve multi-stakeholder partnerships and therefore explores how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may be implemented at a grass roots level.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Context of Partnerships
25
Creating Local Pathways in University Teacher Education Planting the Seed
37
Making Sense of the Big Picture What the Literature Says
52
Global Community Partnership Research
67
Global Insights and Support
87
Developing Local Partnerships in HPE Win Win Win
99
Partnerships Work Continuing the Success in Swimming and Water Safety
111
Benefitting from National Initiatives Tennis Australia Hot Shots
125
Overcoming Barriers and Problem Solving
134
Conclusion and Recommendations
149
Appendix A
161
Appendix B
165
Index
167
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Tim Lynch is Lecturer in Primary Physical Education at Plymouth University, UK. He has been involved in early years/ primary, secondary and higher education for 22 years as a classroom teacher, Head teacher, Health and Physical Education (HPE) specialist and Teacher Educationalist, working in various national and international school communities, education systems and institutions. Tim is the Vice-President for Oceania for the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (ICHPER-SD).