Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to provide a pedagogical discussion and practical examples as to how physical education may contribute to the teaching and learning of crosscurricular themes and whole-school concepts such as literacy and numeracy from a learner’s and teacher’s perspective. This chapter also highlights ways in which physical education teachers can adopt a process-driven and thematic approach to their teaching where the focus is on the holistic and cognitive development of the pupil. There are many opportunities for teachers to apply knowledge, principles and values to more than one curriculum subject at the same time and which can relate to one central topic or issue. In most cases physical education teachers can organise their units of work and lessons to reflect a particular theme in terms of what pupils will learn from the experience within the unit or lesson. This can enable the transfer of learning and teaching and provide a more relevant physical education curriculum to pupils across Key Stages 3 and 4.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Really Useful Physical Education Book |
| Subtitle of host publication | Teaching and Learning Across the 14 – 18 age range |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 14 |
| Pages | 214 - 230 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315643335 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781138187153 |
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| Publication status | Published - 14 Nov 2016 |