• Semester 1 (Day)

Synopsis

Like  the Queensland 1-10 Health and Physical Education syllabus, this
unit  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  unit  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.