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Article: Classroom teachers and the challenges of delivering quality physical education.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Educational Research
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
- Author:
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Imagine an elementary school gymnasium without winners defeating losers, where children excitedly run through doors that open to a carefully constructed wonderland of tasks and challenges designed to enhance their physical, social, emotional and cognitive development. Imagine groups of girls and boys striving to negotiate their growing bodies through movement successes and failures; imagine that these children, despite their widely variable physical and social maturity levels, play well together, cooperate fairly, communicate respectfully, and exit the gym with smiles on their faces, happy to return to their classrooms but ever so eager for the next opportunity to have ...