Health and physical education background reading

 Australian Council of Educational Research. (2002). Section 8: Health and physical education. Report on the New Zealand national curriculum .

 Burrows, L. (2005, June).   Proposed key competencies and health and physical education in the New Zealand curriculum (Word, 154 KB) . Paper prepared for the Ministry of Education’s New Zealand Curriculum Marautanga Project.

 Culpan, I. (2005, November).   Physical education: What is it all about? The muddled puzzle (Word, 307 KB) .

 Dewar, S. (2001, June).   Implementing health and physical education in the New Zealand curriculum: A report of the experiences of a national sample of schools (PDF, 337 KB) . The Research Bulletin, 12, 81–97.

 Gatman, V. (2005, December).   Physical activity and physical education within health and physical education in the New Zealand curriculum: A primary school teacher's perspective (Word, 191 KB) . Auckland: University of Auckland.

 Hipkins, R. (n.d.).   Rethinking the self and the social in the ‘knowledge age’: Learning opportunities provided by health and physical education in the New Zealand curriculum (Word, 88 KB) . Unpublished paper from NZCER.

 Ministry of Education. (2004). Teachers’ experiences in curriculum implementation: General curriculum, the arts, and health and physical education. 

 National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) website.

 Robertson, J. (2005).   Making sense of health promotion in context of health and physical education curriculum learning (Word, 177 KB) . Paper prepared for the Ministry of Education’s New Zealand Curriculum Marautanga Project.

 Street, P. (2006, October).   Home economics education in New Zealand: A position statement (Word, 150 KB) . Paper prepared for the Ministry of Education's New Zealand Curriculum Marautanga Project.

 Stuart, D. (2005).   Educator responses to food-related school business relationships from a socio-ecological and health promotion perspective (Word, 162 KB) .

 Tasker, G. (2006, August).   ‘It makes you think outside the square’ – Examining the relationships between students’ perceptions of their learning in senior secondary health education, the proposed key competencies, the schooling strategy 2005–2010 and learning in the knowledge rich (Word, 134 KB) .

 Wallhead, T. L., & Buckworth, J. (2004). The role of physical education in the promotion of youth physical activity. Quest, 56, 285–301.

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