EDU1461 Physical Education and Health Education - New Agendas (FOEDU)

Units 1.0 (Curriculum Studies) Band 5

State law in Queensland (Australia) requires that all adults working/undertaking professional experience/researching with children under the age of 18, in the state of Queensland are required to possess a current suitability card (Blue Card). (See "Other Requirements" for further information.) Also see: http://www.childcomm.qld.gov.au/employment/bluecard/informationSheets.html.

Synopsis

Like the Queensland 1-10 health and physical education syllabus, this course takes a social model of health as its point of departure. Students will be encouraged to challenge what they know about health and physical activity and to seek solutions to the problems and engage the key issues that surround this key learning area. The major themes of the syllabus are explored, health as a curriculum organiser is analysed, and physical activities through which the syllabus might be delivered are undertaken. Further, this course develops and builds on the idea that physical education and health play a role in self-identity formation in young children. It makes consideration of health behaviour and health choices in the period Giddens (1991) has labelled late modernity. There is an attempt to build a picture of health and health related exercise as a deeply personalised issue and that there is a problematic relationship between 'being healthy', 'being well' and 'being fit'. These popular discourses are exposed as being framed by inappropriate cultural conventions that often emerge in teachers' work as de-facto objectives in the key learning area.