From policy to practice: The challenges of providing high quality physical education and school sport faced by head teachers within primary schools

Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 429-446

  Rainer, Paul ^a   Cropley, Brendan ^b   Jarvis, Stuart ^a   Griffiths, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

head teacher; physical education; policy; primary school

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865464763     PISSN: 17408989     EISSN: 17425786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17408989.2011.603125     Document Type: Article

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