A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education: Proven Strategies for Middle and High School - Softcover

Clements, Rhonda; Katz-Kinzler, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0736038825 ISBN 13: 9780736038829

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

The 70 games and activities here represent 24 different cultures. They are broken down for individual and group interaction, with an "Activity Finder" listing the name of each game, its country, and the multicultural outcome. Sample rubrics can be used to determine these outcomes.

About this title

About the Author

Rhonda Clements, EdD, is the author of eight books on movement, play, and games. She is the president of the American Association for the Child's Right to Play, a UN-recognized association composed of experts in play, games, and sports in 49 other countries. The program's primary purpose is to protect, preserve, and promote play and leisure activities throughout the world.

Dr. Clements has written more than 70 articles related to physical education (including 20 on sport and play factors) and has been interviewed by more than 200 journalists regarding children's right to leisure and physical play. She is also a consultant for numerous toy manufactures that use her expertise in physical activity and manipulative playthings. She has presented at 20 international conferences on topics related to cultural understanding though play and sport.

Dr. Clements is a professor and the coordinator of graduate physical education at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, where she conducts research and teaches about historical and sociocultural issues in sport and physical education. In her leisure time, she enjoys world travel; historical museums; race walking; and collecting antiquarian books on teacher training, games, and sport. She lives in New York City.

A licensed physical educator with experience in both the public and the private sectors, Suzanne K. Kinzler, MS, has taught in a multicultural environment for more than 12 years. She was a key writer on the assessment portion of the New York City Board of Education Physical Education Committee and is a member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; The American Association for the Child's Right to Play; and the Women's Sport Foundation.

Kinzler is a physical education and health instructor at Queens Gateway to the Health Sciences Secondary School in Jamaica, New York. The mother of two boys, Kinzler is an avid reader who enjoys curriculum development, creative movement, dancing, and fitness walking. She lives in Woodmere, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0736038825
• ISBN 13: 9780736038829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152