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Physical Literacy articles
Listed below are various articles on the subject of physical literacy. They span several years, describing the concept as it stands now, as well as its development over time. Please click on any article to read it - in many cases, a downloadable PDF of the article has been provided.
Whitehead, M.E. Meaningful Existence, Embodiment and Physical Education - Journal of Philosophy of Education (1990) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. The Concept of Physical Literacy - BJTPE (2001) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. The Concept of Physical Literacy - EJPE (2001) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Physical Literacy - A Debate - Pre-Olympic Congress Thessaloniki (2004) read the article...
Mandigo, J. and Holt, N. Reading the Game: Introducing the notion of Games Literacy - PHE (2004) (PDF only) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Physical Literacy - A Developing Concept (2005) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Developing Physical Literacy - Roehampton (2005) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. The Concept of Physical Literacy and the development of a sense of self - IAPESGW (2005) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Poster on Physical Literacy 2nd World Summit on Physical Education - Macolin (2005) read the article...
Haydn-Davies, D. How does the Concept of Physical Literacy affect what is and might be the practice of Physical Education? BJTPE (2005) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Developing the Concept of Physical Literacy. ICSSPE Newsletter Summer 2006 read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. with Murdoch, E. Physical Literacy and Physical Education: Conceptual Mapping. PE Matters Summer 2006 read the article...
Martin, A. Special PE: Physical Literacy in a Special School. PE Matters Vol. 1 No.3 Winter 2006 read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Physical Literacy and its importance to every individual - NDA (2007) read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Squaring the circle - Women, Physical Literacy and Western Patriarchal Culture - BPSA (2007) read the article...
Whitehead, M. E. (2007) Physical Literacy as the goal of Physical Education with particular reference to girls and young women. Unpublished paper given at CAHPERD Conference May 2007 read the article...
Maggie Killngbeck, Mark Bowler, Danny Golding and Paul Sammon. Physical Education and Physical Literacy read the article...
Whitehead, M. E. (2007) Physical Literacy: Philosophical considerations in relation to the development of self, universality and propositional knowledge. Sport Ethics and Philosophy Vol 1 No. 3 Dec 2007
Whitehead, M.E. Physical Literacy as a Human Intelligence and as a Human Capability. IAPESGW Stellenbosch 2009 read the article...
Maude, P.M. Physical Literacy and the Young Child. AIESEP, Spain 2010 read the article...
Maude, P.M. Physical Literacy and the Young Child - PowerPoint presentation. AIESEP, Spain 2010 see the presentation...
Taplin, E. Physical Literacy - A Lifelong Journey. AIESEP, Spain 2010 read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. The importance and value of physical literacy throughout the lifecourse, based on existential and phenomenological schools of thought. AIESEP, Spain 2010 read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. The Value of Being Physically Literate, Gothenberg 2010 read the article...
Whitehead, M.E. Questions answered on Physical Literacy.
De Rossi, P. (2013) Building a repertoire: exploring the role of active play in improving physical literacy in children