The Future of Health, Wellbeing and Physical Education : Optimising Children's Health Through Local and Global Community Partnerships

This book uses the example of a partnership journey between universities, schools, the local health industry as well as a number of government organisations which worked to ensure the growth of physical education in primary education. The initiative employed the United Nations (UN) ideals as a model and contextualised them within local schools and communities. What began as a pathway seed quickly grew to involve multi-stakeholder partnerships and therefore explores how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) may be implemented at a grass roots level. Tim Lynch is Lecturer in Primary Physical Education at Plymouth University, UK. He has been involved in early years/ primary, secondary and higher education for 22 years as a classroom teacher, Head teacher, Health and Physical Education (HPE) specialist and Teacher Educationalist, working in various national and international school communities, education systems and institutions. Tim is the Vice-President for Oceania for the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (ICHPER-SD) Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-24 Context of Partnerships....Pages 25-36 Creating Local Pathways in University Teacher Education: Planting the Seed....Pages 37-51 Making Sense of the Big Picture: What the Literature Says....Pages 53-66 Global Community Partnership Research....Pages 67-86 Global Insights and Support....Pages 87-98 Developing Local Partnerships in HPE (Win, Win, Win)....Pages 99-109 Partnerships Work: Continuing the Success in Swimming and Water Safety....Pages 111-124 Benefitting from National Initiatives: Tennis Australia ‘Hot Shots’....Pages 125-133 Overcoming Barriers and Problem Solving....Pages 135-148 Conclusion and Recommendations....Pages 149-159 Back Matter....Pages 161-174