Promoting lifelong physical activity and high level performance: Realising an achievable aim for physical education

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 265-278

  MacNamara, Aine ^a   Collins, Dave ^a,b   Bailey, Richard ^c   Toms, Martin ^d   Ford, Paul ^e   Pearce, Gemma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Grey Matters Performance Ltd University of Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

^c Independent Scholar   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Participant development; Physical education; Psycho behavioural skills; Psychomotor skills; Youth sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959539754     PISSN: 17408989     EISSN: 17425786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2010.535200     Document Type: Article

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