School physical education and teacher education

Abstract

School Physical Education and Teacher Education, edited by Ann Macphail and Hal A. Lawson, two prominent scholars in the studies of both physical education (PE) and physical education teacher education (PETE), is a timely edited collection. Drawing on an international-comparative perspective, each chapter identifies, describes and engages with ‘Grand Challenges’ in PE and PETE and in doing so illuminates ‘dramatic and somewhat variable changes underway in nations around the world’ (p. 2, italic as in original). In her foreword, DouneMacdonald notes that the book is ‘both ambitious and ground-breaking’ (p. viii) for its framing of ‘Grand Challenges’ in in PE and PETE and its attempts to not only articulate these challenges but to also offer solutions. In her words, ‘grand challenges’ are ‘difficult, important and crystallizing problems which invite global and collaborative solutions’ (p. viii).