Physical literacy : throughout the lifecourse

By M. Whitehead. 2010

652 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4739d0b2791662c7a19f476523da9857fb76e54d

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In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. E. Durden-Myers
2. D. Kirk
3. N. Pot
4. Paul Jurbala
5. D. Dudley
6. Kimberly L. Oliver
7. M. Whitehead
8. N. Green

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Durden-Myers
2. N. Pot
3. D. Kirk
4. Paul Jurbala
5. Kimberly L. Oliver
6. M. Whitehead
7. N. Green
8. D. Dudley

Citations in the corpus

• The Value of Fostering Physical Literacy (2018, background): “Physical activity as advocated by proponents of physical literacy (Whitehead, 2010) is not an added extra to the experiences of life but is an essential ingredient in the realization of”
• Defining Physical Literacy for Application in Australia: A Modified Delphi Method (2019, background): “While the concept’s roots trace back many decades (Whitehead, 2001, 2010), researchers and practitioners in health, physical education, sporting participation, and recreational movement pursuits have embraced physical literacy as a new paradigm for understanding the roots of behaviors across…”
• Towards an activist approach to research and advocacy for girls and physical education (2016, background): “This physical activity must be purposeful, to be sure, and it must be meaningful to girls in the moments of their engagement or else learning to value the physically active life is, we think, less likely (Whitehead 2010).”
• What Is Physical Literacy, Really? (2015, background): “(Whitehead, 2010, p. 34) The idea of a better life through PL has excited many, particularly practitioners in the fields of education, recreation, public health and sport, who have seized on the concept to advance their interest in increasing levels of physical activity or improving sport…”
• Physical Literacy From Philosophy to Practice (2018, background): “can slip in again as the embodied dimension is treated as a machine to be trained and honed in respect of a performance goal (Pot & van Hilvoorde, 2013; Whitehead, 2010).”
• Implications for Promoting Physical Literacy (2018, background): “Movement patterns are described by Murdoch and Whitehead (2010) as “configurations of movement which develop from the young child’s early exploration of the physicality in the world” (p. 178).”