Health and physical education encompasses the development of movement competence and health literacies crucial to child and adolescent health and wellbeing. Health and Physical Education: Preparing Educators for the Future, 2nd edition continues to offer a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, understanding, skills and theoretical underpinnings required to teach health and physical education in Australian schools. This edition outlines the latest developments to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, to help pre-service teacher educators understand the application of these concepts in practice. Maintaining a focus on the education of all learning ages, it provides a stronger focus on physical education and development in early childhood, and broader coverage of the perspectives of culturally diverse students. Well-structured and engaging, this edition has been updated to include the latest literature, figures, statistics and resources. Learning is enhanced through further reading, end-of-chapter questions, case studies and an updated and comprehensive companion website.

Author Biography

Deb Callcott is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University. Judith Miller is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of New England. Susan Wilson-Gahan is the Program Co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Education Health and Physical Education specialisation programs in the School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education at the University of Southern Queensland.