Description
Book SynopsisYoung people are facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions - yet no one is taking action. Children are born as active, curious, imaginative beings with a built-in physical identity.
Survival of the Fit offers a new and revelatory plan to nurture this identity and save the health of youngsters.
Table of Contents
- Contents (Tentative)
- Acknowledgments xi
- 1. Our Physical Identities: Inborn, Important, and Impaired 1
- Introduction: No STEM Without Fitness 1 Physical Identity and the Primitive Brain 4
- The Power of Play 5
- Timing Is Everything 7
- Society and Identity 8
- Children and Identity 9
- Uncle Sam May Not Actually Want You! 11
- 2. The Rise and Fall of Physical Education 15
- Evidence-Based Physical Education: Why Rebranding Is Needed 15
- What We Do Not Do in Our Daily Lives (Baby Boomers Take Note!) 17
- What Children Do Not Do After School 18
- Mother Nature to the Rescue 21
- They Don’t Have Time, and It’s Dangerous 21
- What We Do Not Do for Work 23
- The Adulting of Youth Play 24
- A System Put in Place for a Very Different Time 26
- Physical Education and Interscholastic Sports 28
- In Support of Organized Sports: Making It Fun for All Participants 32
- Myths and Identities: Do Not Expect Too Much from a Game 35
- The Athletic Lottery Winners 38
- Wild Game 40
- The Right Side of History 42
- What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? 43
- Don’t Become What You Eat 45
- 3. Roadblocks to Rebranding Physical Education in Today’s Schools 47
- Experience vs. Expertise 47
- Federal Input for Physical Education 50
- Physical Education in American Schools Today 52
- 4.Removing the Roadblocks: Establishing Rebranded Physical Education 70
- Mother Nature’s Last Stand 70
- Money, Money Everywhere, but Not a Drop for PE 71
- PE: The Only Subject That May Need Standardized Testing 72
- If You Can’t Teach, Don’t Teach PE: Goal Setting for the 21st Century PE Teacher 75
- Contagions You Want to Catch 78
- Competitive Sports Are Sports—They Are Rarely PE 79
- Lifelong Activities 80
- If Exergaming Is My Only Option, Give Me Football 82
- There’s No Telling Where the Money Went 83
- Follow the Money 85
- If You Want to Know Something, Maybe Just Ask 88
- Survey Says . . . 91
- Mission Statement 96
- 5.Revolutionizing and Rebranding PE for Physical Identity 98
- Our School Is in Motion: A Social Contagion 98
- Goals for the Rebranded PE 99
- Sample Curricula 115
- The Revolution Starts Now (and WILL be Televised!) 165
- Think Globally, Act Locally 169
- Mission Statement (Reprise) 170
- Letters From the Front 172
- Action List for Revolutionaries 177
- Time and Money 178
- References 181
- Index 191
- About the Author 199
