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Mission impossible? Reflecting upon the relationship between physical education, youth sport and lifelong participation
Green, Ken
Green, Ken
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2012-05-08
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It is widely believed that school physical education (PE) is or, at the very least, can (even should) be a crucial vehicle for enhancing young people’s engagement with physically active recreation (typically but not exclusively in the form of sport) in their leisure and, in the longer run, over the life-course. Despite the prevalence of such beliefs there remains a dearth of evidence demonstrating a ‘PE effect’. Indeed, the precise nature of the relationship between PE, youth sport and lifelong participation is seldom explored other than in implicit, often speculative and discursive, ways that simply take-for-granted the positive effects of the former (PE) on the latter (youth and adult participation in sport and physically active recreation). Using largely European studies to frame the issue, this paper reflects upon the supposedly ‘causal’ relationship between PE, youth sport and lifelong participation and, in doing so, highlights the inherent problems associated with attempts to identify, characterise and establish a ‘PE effect’.
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Sport, Education and Society, 2014, 19(4), pp. 357-375
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Taylor & Francis
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Sport, Education and Society
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10.1080/13573322.2012.683781
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport, Education and Society on 8 May 2012, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13573322.2012.683781
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1357-3322
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1470-1243
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This book was submitted to the RAE2014 for the University of Chester - Sport & Exercise Sciences.