Physical education and sports

This article considers the selection, development, and implementation of the curriculum of physical education and sports. It focuses particularly on how each of the three trends toward national and state curricula, examination in physical education, and models-based instruction, provide contexts for the development of particular versions of physical education. In each case, the forms of physical education curricula that result inevitably signal the perceived worth of some knowledge over other knowledge, and suggest that physical education curricula are socially constructed over time and in response to both local and global forces.