Quality physical education in Australia

Abstract

There is a worldwide debate on quality physical education (QPE) and there is a lack of consensus about what the term means. However, QPE is context-specific and means different things in different places. Therefore, this chapter focusses on QPE in Australia. This is analysed by using the 8-dimensional development aspects in QPE and drawing content examples from the Australian Curriculum in Health and Physical Education. Contextual information about Australia as a country is also presented, together with some background information about the school system and intertwined information about some organisations linked to the provision of Health and Physical Education in Australia.

RAS ID

78455

Document Type

Book Chapter

Date of Publication

1-1-2025

School

School of Education

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Identifier

Valeria Varea: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3572-4976

Comments

Varea, V. (2025). Quality physical education in Australia. In Quality Physical Education (pp. 15-26). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513582-4

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.4324/9781003513582-4