Physical activity provides an opportunity to build character, use teamwork, and foster a sense of belonging in schools. Learners are encouraged to try out a range of physical activities, including team and individual sports, games, and outdoor activities, and then use the theoretical knowledge they have gained to analyse the different factors influencing performance. Special considerations may be necessary regarding physical activities for some students with health issues, and those students should proceed under the direction of a doctor.
The curriculum develops an understanding that the meanings and interests individuals and social groups have in relation to health practices and physical activity participation are diverse and therefore require different approaches and strategies. This proposal would not only be good for pupils but, would lead to the recruitment of thousands of unemployed PE teachers in the Italian schools.
That’s why special education and adapted physical activity teachers have come to rely …
Those in special education teaching jobs work with students who have needs that can’t be met in a regular classroom. The Welsh Government operates an inclusive education policy that applies equally to mainstream schools and institutions providing further education (FE) The expectation is that young people aged 16+ with LDD wishing to leave school are offered equitable access to FE at a local mainstream FE institution, and that this mainstream institution will normally be able to meet the education and training needs of the majority of young people with LDD.
This fifteen-part video course covers philosophical issues that bear directly upon education. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education (Siegel 2009) contains a similarly broad range of articles on (among other things) the epistemic and moral aims of education, liberal education and its imminent demise, thinking and reasoning, fallibilism and fallibility, indoctrination, authenticity, the development of rationality, Socratic teaching, educating the imagination, caring and empathy in moral education, the limits of moral education, the cultivation of character, values education, curriculum and the value of knowledge, education and democracy, art and education, science education and religious toleration, constructivism and scientific methods, multicultural education, prejudice, authority and the interests of children, and on pragmatist, feminist, and postmodernist approaches to philosophy of education.