Background: For many years, skill learning has been an important component of primary
school physical education (PE) with most lessons focused on the teaching of fundamental …

ABSTRACT Within Aotearoa/New Zealand primary schools, External Providers (EPs) have
steadily increased their influence on physical education. The purpose of this study was to …

In the current national Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), Physical
Education (PE) is located in the subject Life Skills (LS), which comprises four subject areas …

During the past two decades, curriculum restructuring in South Africa has had some
unintended consequences; one of these being the unrealistic demands expected from Life …

This study examines practicing primary school teacher's perceptions of the teaching of
physical education in their schools. There has been some criticism of primary school …

ABSTRACT A growing trend in primary schools in recent times has been to outsource
Physical Education (PE) to external sport and activity providers. The impact of this has not …

After two decades of political interest in primary Physical Education (PE) and school sport,
the London 2012 Games (and its promised legacy) ushered in a new wave of government …

ABSTRACT Health and Physical Education (HPE) has been an important learning area in
the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) since the two learning areas were integrated in the …

This study explored the process of acquiring services from external providers by schools as
a form of outsourcing of physical education activities. Physical education is a learning area …

Primary classroom teachers are increasingly moving to the side-line as physical education
(PE) is outsourced to external providers. Although there are many critiques of external …